A Naturalist in Costa Rica picks up Alexander F. Skutch's story in 1935, the year his memoir The Imperative Call ends. In it he recoreds his life, work, observations, and reflections during thirty-five years in the southeastern Pacific section of Costa Rica.
A Naturalist in Costa Rica picks up Alexander F. Skutch's story in 1935, the year his memoir The Imperative Call ends. In it he recoreds his life, wor...
"The Imperative Call explores the making of an extraordinary naturalist No one since W. H. Hudson has approached nature from such a consistent moral position. No one has tried so scrupulously to define the murky boundary between science and vandalism Ultimately, the reader comes to see Alex Skutch not so much as a naturalist or a farmer but as an artist."-- Audubon magazine
Skutch offers us the botanical and zoological riches of the tropics, combining a gifted scientist s powers of observation with a committed humanist s reverence for life. Even those who have never...
"The Imperative Call explores the making of an extraordinary naturalist No one since W. H. Hudson has approached nature from such a consiste...
Winner, Western Books Exhibition, Rounce and Coffin Club
Antbirds and ovenbirds, two of the five largest families of birds found only in the Western Hemisphere, have been among Alexander Skutch's favorites for more than six decades. In this book, he draws on years of observations to describe the life cycle of these fascinating birds, which inhabit Latin America from tropical Mexico to Tierra del Fuego.
Skutch covers all aspects of the birds' lives, including the various species in each family, food and foraging, daily life, voice, displays and courtship, nests and...
Winner, Western Books Exhibition, Rounce and Coffin Club
Antbirds and ovenbirds, two of the five largest families of birds found only ...
