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- from “Lady Windermere's Fan” by Oscar Wilde. Irish playwright, novelist, poet. (1854-1900)
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2018 CHOICE Award
American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title (Click Cover)
Oak Ridge talk
Natural Histories
UT Press 2007
Ghost Birds
"Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1935 to 1941." UT Press 2010
Ghost Birds talk
Yakima Valley College 2017
Smithsonian article
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Ghost Birds: Reviews
Cornell Review
THQ Review
French review
Tribute to Mom
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Smoky Mountain Roots
Alex Cole cabin at great-granddad Jim Bales homesite Great Smoky Mountains National Park
WBIR Channel 10
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Ivory-bill notecards
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Ivory-bill print
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