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.