Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 154)

by Alexander Wilson

Alexander Wilson, expatriate Scotsman, poet, & reformer, has been called "the Father of American Ornithology." This collection of his letters, many of them new & many complete for the first time, captures a splendid & stimulating time in American history. Wilson was a confidant of William Bartram, a correspondent of Thomas Jefferson, a sensitive personality who set out as he said to make "a collection of all our finest birds." In pursuit of this goal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087169154X
• ISBN13: 9780871691545
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.