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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 · Obituary: Fred Bodsworth, author of Last of the Curlews, 93. The famed Canadian nature novelist died Sept. 15, one month short of his 94th birthday. Fred Bodsworth was awarded the Matt...
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
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Fred Bodsworth was born in Port Burwell, Ontario. He has worked in tobacco fields and on tow tugs. He now lives in Toronto. 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 ...
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Bodsworth emphasizes that the bird’s behavior is driven by instinct, not decisions. “A tenuous hope, part instinctive reason and part a shadowy form of reasoning, formed nebulously in the curlew’s brain. Was this the end of his lifelong quest for companions of his own kind?”
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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. Abigail Rorer is the founder of Lone Oak Press, which publishes award–winning fine press books, broadsides, and ephemera with wood engravings and etchings.
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Last of the Curlews. Fred Bodsworth. McClelland & Stewart, 1991 - Fiction - 132 pages. The Eskimo curlew, which once made its migration from Patagonia to the Arctic in flocks so dense that they...
