‘The Wilderness Warrior’

Chapter One: The Education of a Darwinian Naturalist

At a very early age, Theodore Roosevelt started studying the anatomy of more than 600 species of birds in North America. You might say that his natural affinity for ornithology was part of his metabolism. As a child Roosevelt became a skilled field birder, acquiring a fine taxidermy collection while recording firsthand observations in notebooks now housed at Harvard University. And it wasn't just birds.

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