Roger Tory Peterson: a biography.

Mildred Wyatt-Wold Series in Ornithology. A biography of one of the 20th century’s foremost ornithologists, whose 1934 “Field Guide to the Birds” was one of the two foundational books that launched the environmental movement. It describes how Peterson’s obsession with birds began in boyhood and continued throughout a multifaceted career as a painter, environmentalist and photographer.