Associated University Presses

A writer's voice; collected work of the twentieth-century biologist and conservationist, Joseph P. Linduska.

Linduska's work included a groundbreaking study on DDT that served as the foundation for Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, but he was also an environmental writer of import, concentrating on the Delmarva region of Maryland. Here over 100 of his essays find a wider audience and range from the very serious, including accounting for endangered species, to the very funny peculiarities of Linduska's beloved retriever Duke, as expressed by Duke himself. Linduska covers the fine points of wildlife management and species conservation, the joys and sorrows of sport fishing, the need for responsible stewardship of the wild places as well as the relatively tame, the need for humans to take and control what is not rightfully theirs, and the big picture in environmentalism. Editor Louise E. Dove, a Maryland zoologist, gives a detailed timeline and list of published works by Linduska. Duke would be proud. Distributed by Associated University Presses. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)