Seabird Genius: The Story of L.E. Richdale, the Royal Albatross and the Yellow-Eyed Penguin (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Seabird Genius This is the first biography of Lance Richdale, who achieved international fame as the father of Otago New Zealand's albatross colony, and who is also known for his research on the behavior of the Yellow-eyed Penguin. Time magazine dubbed him 'The Dr. Kinsey of the penguin world.' Lance Richdale grew up in New Zealand's Wanganui district. He took a tertiary course in agriculture in New South Wales
Full description- Publisher: Otago University Press
- Published: 11 November 2011
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Birds (ornithology) | Conservation Of The Environment | Australasian & Pacific History
- ISBN 13: 9781877578113 ISBN 10: 1877578118
- Sales rank: 898,864
Full bibliographic data for Seabird Genius
- Title
- Seabird Genius
- Subtitle
- The Story of L.E. Richdale, the Royal Albatross and the Yellow-Eyed Penguin
- Authors and contributors
- Physical properties
- Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
Width: 240 mm
Height: 170 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight: 672 g - Audience
- College/higher education
General/trade - Language
- English
- ISBN
- ISBN 13: 9781877578113
ISBN 10: 1877578118 - Classifications
- BISAC category code: BIO015000
BISAC category code: NAT011000
LC classification: LA
BISAC category code: BIO019000
BICMainSubject: PSVW6
BIC geographical qualifier: 1MBN
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T4.6
Dewey: B
BISAC category code: SCI070040
BISAC category code: HIS004000 - Illustrations note
- b/w & colour illus
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Imprint name
- Otago University Press
- Publication date
- 11 November 2011
- Publication City/Country
- Dunedin/NZ
- Table of contents
- '... A Rising Gale Among Trees'; Head Boy; Nature Study Man; Communing with Penguins; The Frenetic Forties; Whero -- 'Treasure Island'; America; Honoured; O, to be in England; Farewell to Father, Whero & Classrooms; Petrel Pressure; The Auckland Years; Legacy.
