The Alaskan Bird Sketches of Olaus Murie: With Excerpts from His Field Notes

Very Good used paperback. Faded cover. Scarce.

In 1920, 31-year-old Olaus Murie headed to Alaska for the first of many memorable trips to a land he came to love intensely. He was a biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, a sensitive observer of the natural world, and an amazing artist. His wife, Margaret Murie, has compiled and edited this rare, previously unpublished collection of Olaus's Alaskan bird paintings and his perceptive notes that accompany them.