The Trumpeter Swan (Bison Book)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Reprint of the 1960 ed. published by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, which was issued as no. 63 of North American fauna. Among the birds of the world, swans have attained a place of art, myth, and religion unrivalled by any but birds of prey. Admired in poems of Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky's ballet, swans lose neither their nobility nor grace in this scrupulously scientific book. Trumpeter swans are native to North America, but faced extinction not so long ago. Killed for food, feathers, and skins, or captured for private collectors, swans were rapidly disappearing from this ...
ISBN(s)
0803260571, 9780803260573
