| My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist |
 enlarge | Author: Frances Hamerstrom
Creator: Elva Hamerstrom Paulson
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 4308300
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 328
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1
ISBN: 0299142000
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.092
EAN: 9780299142001
ASIN: 0299142000
Publication Date: October 1994
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This is the memoir of wildlife biologist, Fran Hamerstrom. The only woman to receive a graduate degree from ecologist Aldo Leopold, Hamerstrom illustrates the hardships of implementing a conservation mentality and provides glimpses of both the wildlife world and the human one which studies it.
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Fran Hamerstrom: a peer to Rachel Carson January 3, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This beatifully written biography describes the early life and career of wildlife biologist Frances Hamerstrom, the first female graduate student of Aldo Leopold (author of A Sand County Almanac) and pioneer in the field of wildlife biology. Hamerstrom's account describes her upbringing in Boston in the early 1900's, her marriage to Frederick Hamerstrom and their joint careers as graduate students, and wildlife biologists in Wisconsin. Filled with humor, you will laugh to read of her transition as a teenager in Brookline sneaking out to go ballroom dancing to that of a dedicated biologist. Even the biology will make you laugh as she describes trying to capture a hawk by getting it to land on a fencepost-- and 'decorating' the rest of the fenceposts with bouquets of goldenrod to make them un-land-upon-able. A great read!
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