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Bales, Stephen Lyn.

Ghost birds : Jim Tanner and the quest for the ivory-billed woodpecker, 1935-1941 / Stephen Lyn Bales ; foreword by Nancy Tanner. - 1st ed. - Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2010. - x, 270 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-262) and index.

Foreword / Nancy Tanner -- "Someone needs to write a book..." -- Sabbatical -- The journey begins -- The swampy South -- The ghost bird -- Hot sauce and bird city -- Days of wind and dust -- Has anyone seen a young ivory-bill? -- Westward ho -- Swansong -- On his own -- Back at singer -- A need to move on -- On the road again -- A second nesting season at singer -- On the road again, again -- From the Santee to the sunshine state -- Finding Sonny boy -- I go pogo -- The fellowship concludes -- At home in Tennessee -- Our lives changed forever -- Aftermath.

ISBN: 9781572337176 (hardcover) 1572337176 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2010024333

Subjects--Personal Names:
Tanner, James T.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ornithologists--United States--Biography.
Naturalists--United States--Biography.
Ivory-billed woodpecker.

LC Class. No.: QL31.T346 / B35 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 598.092 B