The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga Of The American Animal
Autor David A. Daryen Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 1989
The journals and memoirs of nineteeth-century explorers and travelers in the American West often told of viewing buffalo massed together as far as the eye could see. This book appropriately covers the subject of the buffalo as extensively as that animal covered the plains. Other recent accounts of the buffalo have focused on two or three aspects, emphasizing its natural history, the hunters and the hunted in prehistoric time, the relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian. David Dary’s treatment stretches from horizon to horizon. Of course he discusses the origin of the buffalo in North America, its locations and migrations, its habits, its significance and role in both Indian and white cultures, its near demise, its salvation. But more. Dary weaves throughout his fact-filled book fascinating threads of lore and legend of this animal that literally helped mold who and what America is. Further, in addition to detailing the extinction which almost befell this mythic beast and the attempts to give life again to the herds, Dary concentrates significant attention on the buffalo as part of America in terms of captivity, husbandry, and symbol.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780804009317
ISBN-10: 0804009317
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Swallow Press
ISBN-10: 0804009317
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Swallow Press
Recenzii
“The author … has written an amazingly thorough book. There is literally everything here–from the first efforts to save the buffalo to the story of Stanley Kramer’s Bless the Beasts and the Children. Dary even includes a list of every single buffalo herd left today, as well as instructions on how to raise them and even buffalo rescue.”—Chicago Tribune
“This definitive book … offers a lively and readable wealth of material on the buffalo’s origins and habits, the animal’s importance to both Indians and whites, attempts at domestication and the buffalo’s rescue from extinction by a number of determined people. Inevitably, there are yarns about individual buffaloes—all tops for fascination.”—Publishers Weekly
Notă biografică
David A. Dary was professor emeritus and former head of what is now the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He was the author of more than 20 books.
Descriere
The journals and memoirs of 19th century explorers and travelers in the American West often told of viewing buffalo massed together as far as the eye could see. This book appropriately covers the subject of the buffalo as extensively as that animal covered the plains.