Townsend's Warbler | Themes and Characters
John Kirk Townsend was a physician and only twenty-four years old when he began his journey with Wyeth's men across the continent. He had been recommended by Thomas Nuttall, who had been impressed with Townsend's abilities as a naturalist. Townsend's specialty was birds; Nuttall's was plants; but each man would discover and describe animal and plant species. Nuttall was already a seasoned adventurer who had traveled extensively through the American wilderness. His unrelenting joy in his work as a naturalist had earned him the nickname "the fool" during an earlier expedition.
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