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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.
Subjects:	Shiras, George, > 1859-1942. United States. > Congress. > House > Biography. United States. > Congress. > House. Legislators > United States > Biography. Wildlife photographers > United States > Biography. Wildlife conservationists > United States > Biography.

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