| Description |
1 online resource (x, 235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Series |
Integrative natural history series |
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Integrative natural history series.
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| Contents |
Part 1. Evolution of a "wild biologist": Child of the fields and forests -- A horse, a horse: my kingdom (lunch money) for a horse -- Would dog bite (mail) woman? -- Going nuclear at the Veterans Administration -- Canines and felines and ... Willie Nelson? -- Whirlybirds and conflagrations: My summer as a helitack firefighter -- Part 2. Metamorphosis: from snake lady to gopher queen: Indigo daze: The snake lady goes down to Georgia -- Ancient dunes, black holes, and burrowing turtles -- A new life partner and many more moons of gopher wrangling -- Rattlers and softshells and bears, oh my! -- Canines in conservation and in my heart -- Part 3. Modifications to my home range, both temporary and permanent: Misadventures on desert trails and high seas -- My return to the land of enchantment |
| Summary |
"Wildlife biologist and gopher tortoise expert Joan E. Berish has spent her life studying and appreciating animals. From Fire to Fauna is a unique, educational, and often humorous memoir reflecting the life of a woman in the field of wildlife conservation and her associated escapades early in life and today. Berish recounts her eventful and sometimes absurd journey to become a wildlife researcher. Outrunning treetop flames, spending a night in jail with a threatened species, and surviving a stalled airplane engine while searching for a missing tortoise, Berish introduces readers to the adventures, triumphs, and heartbreaks that comprise a lifetime of working with animals, animals, both domestic and wild"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Series information from dust jacket |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Berish, Joan E., 1950-
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Zoologists -- Florida -- Biography
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Wildlife conservationists -- Florida -- Biography
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Gopher tortoise -- Conservation -- Florida
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Wildlife conservation -- Florida
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Wildlife conservation
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Wildlife conservationists
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Zoologists
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Florida
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019021682 |
| ISBN |
9781623498320 |
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1623498325 |
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