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Charles Frederick "Fred" Bodsworth (October 11, 1918 – September 15, 2012) was a Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist. Born in Port Burwell, Ontario, Bodsworth worked as a journalist for the St. Thomas Times-Journal, The Toronto Star, and Maclean's, where he also served as assistant
Sep 21, 2012 · Fred Bodsworth, famed Canadian nature novelist, once had an infestation of flies in his Toronto home. Instead of finding a way to eradicate them, he spent hours collecting and studying...
Last of the Curlews is a novel, a fictionalized account of the life of the last Eskimo curlew. It was written by Fred Bodsworth, a Canadian newspaper reporter and naturalist, and published in 1954 .
- Fred Bodsworth, T. M. Shortt, John Stevens
- 1955
He was a reporter for the St. Thomas Times-Journal from 1940-43; reporter and editor for The Toronto Star from 1943-47; staff writer for Maclean's from 1947-55, and a freelance magazine writer, nature writer, and novelist since then. He was president of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists from 1964-67.
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Bodsworth doesn't treat the bird as a little person with feathers and he doesn't preach about destruction of the environment. What he does do is allow us to feel for the curlew because we humans share its striving both for a sexual partner and for group affiliation.
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- Fred Bodsworth
About Last of the Curlews. In this conservation classic, originally published more than sixty years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew’s perilous migration and search for a mate.
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Fred Bodsworth is an esteemed ornithologist, a former reporter, and the author of six books. Last of the Curlews was his first novel. He lives in Toronto.
