Camera hunter : George Shiras III and the birth of wildlife photography /

In 1906, George Shiras III published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic. Taken with crude equipment, the black-and-white photographs featured leaping whitetail deer, a beaver gnawing on a tree and a snowy owl perched along the shore of a lake in Michigan's Upper...

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Main Author: McCommons, James, 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
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505 0 |a Whitefish Lake -- Pittsburgh roots -- Boyhood days in Michigan -- School days for blue bloods -- Camera hunting -- Pennsylvania politics -- The great bird mystery -- Camp life and camera traps -- A progressive goes to Washington -- The National Geographic Society -- Ormond Beach -- Bahamas, Mexico -- Newfoundland and nature fakers -- Eminent personalities -- Yellowstone and the Shiras moose -- The Kenai Peninsula -- Roosevelt-Newett Libel Trial -- The crusade to save birds -- The Shiras bear -- Gatun Lake and Panama -- The bullet is on the way -- The bird treaty -- Yellowstone Dam fight -- Kaibab Plateau -- Final bird battles -- The big book -- Last days. 
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