Bøger af Alexander F. Skutch

First Published in 1970, The Golden Core of Religion develops the view that religion¿s chief contribution to humanity has been its capacity to care deeply about things. The golden core of religion is devoted care.

Alexander Skutch portrays his life as an intrepid naturalist. This autobiography and natural history recounts his early years growing up in Maryland and Maine and his adventures in Central America and Jamaica during the 1920s and 1930s, when he began his studies of nesting birds.

Picks up Alexander Skutch's story in 1935, the year ""The Imperative Call"" ends. There his dream of establishing a permanent homestead in the unspoiled tropical forest of Central America in time became the reality of a simple farmhouse in the Valley of El General.

Alexander F. Skutch has spent more than 40 years studying Neotropical birds, mostly in southern Costa Rica, where he makes his home. In this charming book he observes the habits of the tanagers, a family of some 230 species of brightly colored...