Doug Peacock
Autore di Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
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Doug Peacock has spent the last fifty years wandering the earth's wildest places, studying grizzly bears, and advocating for the preservation of wilderness. A disabled Vietnam veteran and model for Edward Abbey's G.W. Hiyduke, Peacock has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim and Lannan mostra altro foundations for his work on this project. mostra meno
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Deserto solitario : una stagione nei territori selvaggi (1968) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 3,927 copie
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- Nome canonico
- Peacock, Doug
- Altri nomi
- Peacock, Douglas A.
- Data di nascita
- 1942
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Alma, Michigan, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Montana, USA
Alma, Michigan, USA (birth)
Tucson, Arizona, USA - Istruzione
- University of Michigan
- Attività lavorative
- medic (Green Beret)
activist (environmental)
outdoorsman
naturalist - Relazioni
- Peacock, Andrea (spouse)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)
- Breve biografia
- "Doug Peacock is the author of Grizzly Years, Baja, and Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness. His [2006] book, co-written with Andrea Peacock, is The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears. A disabled Vietnam veteran and Green Beret medic, Peacock was the real-life model for Edward Abbey's George Washington Hayduke. He has published widely on wilderness issues ranging from grizzly bears to buffalo, from the Sonoran desert to the fjords of British Columbia, from the tigers of Siberia to the blue sheep of Nepal. Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2011 Lannan Fellow. He lives in Emigrant, Montana." [http://www.powells.com/biblio/74-9781...]
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