{"id":8723,"date":"2014-06-09T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8723"},"modified":"2014-06-09T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:53:21","slug":"other-peoples-bird-books-two-big-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/other-peoples-bird-books-two-big-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Other People&#8217;s Bird Books: Two Big Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"William Beebe's copy of Frank Chapman's Autobiography by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/14196466427\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"William Beebe's copy of Frank Chapman's Autobiography\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2914\/14196466427_204e1f3b53_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rare books rooms everywhere are filled to bursting, and the threshold for admission rises higher every year. That&#8217;s a shame, in a way, but it also means that minor treasures still lurk in the stacks, where even hoi polloi like me can take them home.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this copy of Frank Chapman&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Autobiography<\/em>, for example. If there is a more distinguished provenance for such a book, I couldn&#8217;t guess what it would be.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"William Beebe's copy of Frank Chapman's Autobiography by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/14196466067\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"William Beebe's copy of Frank Chapman's Autobiography\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3895\/14196466067_b325960c6b_z.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along with a substantial <a href=\"http:\/\/findingaids.princeton.edu\/collections\/C0661\">collection of Beebe&#8217;s personal and professional papers<\/a>, Princeton owns a goodly selection of his books, among them a number of genuine (and appropriately housed) rarities, among them classics of early natural history and some of Beebe&#8217;s own works.\u00a0<em>Autobiography of a Bird Lover\u00a0<\/em>is a mundane book in comparison, but there is a special excitement in holding this copy, an artifact that recalls two of the most famous explorers and scientists of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare books rooms everywhere are filled to bursting, and the threshold for admission rises higher every year. That&#8217;s a shame, in a way, but it also means that minor treasures still lurk in the stacks, where even hoi polloi like me can take them home. Consider this copy of Frank Chapman&#8217;s\u00a0Autobiography, for example. If there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/other-peoples-bird-books-two-big-names\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Other People&#8217;s Bird Books: Two Big Names&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8726,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions\/8726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}