Citizen Bird (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Mabel Osgood Wright | knygos.lt

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Likely the first birding guide for children, Citizen Bird (1897) was a tremendously influential text in Progressive-era America, inspiring in a generation of schoolchildren a love of wild birds and the desire to know more about them and to protect them from extinction. More than a century and a quarter later, Citizen Bird is today little more than a footnote in American environmental history, most often cited in relation to one of its two authors or its illustrator: the naturalist Mabel Osgood Wright, the ornithologist Elliott Coues, and the bird artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With a contextualizing introduction, explanatory footnotes, and supplementary historical material in an appendix, this teaching edition of Citizen Bird aims to restore the text to its rightful place not just in the history of birding but also in the broader study of nineteenth-century American culture and literature.