Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)

by Bill Mc Kibben (Foreword), Dyana Z . Furmansky (Author), RolandC.Clement (Foreword)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $31.41

  A biography of Rosalie Edge (1877-1962), he first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. It draws on Edge's personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names 'Joan of Arc' and 'hellcat'.