Spare the Birds!: George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society

by Carolyn Merchant

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society

In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. The magazine constituted one of the first efforts to preserve bird species decimated by the women's hat trade, hunting, and loss of habitat. Within two years, however, for practical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300215452
• ISBN13: 9780300215458
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"