Scarlet experiment : birds and humans in America / Jeff Karnicky.

"Emily Dickinson's poem "Split the Lark" refers to the "scarlet experiment" by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn more about it. Indeed, humans have killed hundreds of millions of birds--for science, fashion, curiosity, and myriad other reasons. In the Un...

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Main Author: Karnicky, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
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