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John Terborgh

John Terborgh, who has worked in the Peruvian Amazon since 1973, is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke and Director of its Center for Tropical Conservation. His latest book, co-edited with James A. Estes, is Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature.
 (April 2012)

Hero of Birdland

All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures

by Roger Tory Peterson, edited by Bill Thompson III

April 26, 2007 issue

The Age of Giants

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History ofNorth America and Its Peoples

by Tim Flannery

September 20, 2001 issue

A Dying World

A Dying World

One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

by Wade Davis

The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People

by Nigel J.H. Smith

January 20, 2000 issue

Cracking the Bird Code

Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations

by C. K. Catchpole and P. J. B. Slater

January 11, 1996 issue

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