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04-08-2008, 09:21 PM
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I have just posted a reply on the thread about the TV prog on Darwin, I would like to propose him as an interesting (!) WAB contributor, and add Richard Spruce as another.
Who else do you want to elect from history?
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04-08-2008, 09:31 PM
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I can think of lots but if I had to name one it would be Jack Hargreaves.
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04-08-2008, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Meta menardi  I have just posted a reply on the thread about the TV prog on Darwin, I would like to propose him as an interesting (!) WAB contributor, and add Richard Spruce as another.
Who else do you want to elect from history? | Chico Mendes (though he might have prefered wild about the world  )
Eric Hoskings
Thor Heyadal
Cptn James Cook
and Gilbert White
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04-08-2008, 09:40 PM
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Peter Scott - loved reading his autobiography. |
04-08-2008, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Meta menardi I have just posted a reply on the thread about the TV prog on Darwin, I would like to propose him as an interesting (!) WAB contributor, and add Richard Spruce as another.
Who else do you want to elect from history? | Although he worked with foreign critters I was always inspired by Gerald Durrell 
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04-08-2008, 10:31 PM
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Is David Attenbourough a too obvious choice, I guess along with other TV folk like Nick Baker and Chris Packham. And yes I am stuck in the present
So Ill go with Steve Harris author of the excellent urban foxes and the latest edition of Handbook of british mammals (all the info you'd ever want on our mammals), soon to be superceeded by the next edition - oh well thats £80-90 down the drain!
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04-08-2008, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by eeyore Chico Mendes (though he might have prefered wild about the world )
Eric Hoskings
Thor Heyadal
Cptn James Cook
and Gilbert White | I love that list! What an expedition team that would make. Might have to interview Heyerdal and Cooke to prevent conflict. Can I come with you? (I think Gilbert White might prefer to remain at home and have stuff emailed, working as a Blogger) |
05-08-2008, 08:28 AM
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So Ill go with Steve Harris author of the excellent urban foxes and the latest edition of Handbook of british mammals (all the info you'd ever want on our mammals), soon to be superceeded by the next edition - oh well thats £80-90 down the drain!
| .... and david macdonald head of the Oxford University WILDCRU (his books are well worth a look too especially running with the Fox ) - though mind you both macdonald and harris are still alive so its possible they might become real members one day
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05-08-2008, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Meta menardi I love that list! What an expedition team that would make. Might have to interview Heyerdal and Cooke to prevent conflict. Can I come with you? (I think Gilbert White might prefer to remain at home and have stuff emailed, working as a Blogger) | sounds like a plan - tim severin would be another good addition to the party
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05-08-2008, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by ron1863 I can think of lots but if I had to name one it would be Jack Hargreaves. | A great choice as I love my 'Out of Town' DVDs. Also, possibly John Clare and Ted Hughes. And, my favourite author Ammon Wrigley, who wrote so lovingly about the Saddleworth countryside, in the West Riding, in the early part of the twentieth century.
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05-08-2008, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by village wench Although he worked with foreign critters I was always inspired by Gerald Durrell | You beat me to it. Might be a slightly controversial choice as some people are opposed to zoos even for the purpose of captive breeding of endangered species. Another choice for me would be Peter Scott.
If we're allowed people still alive then I'd pick the presenter of the Darwin programme, Richard Dawkins, and also Simon Barnes.
It'd be lovely to have a few of the pro wildlife photographers on too - too many to name.
Dave P.
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05-08-2008, 06:07 PM
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If we're allowed people still alive then I'd pick the presenter of the Darwin programme, Richard Dawkins...
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| I've actually met richard dawkins and while i'm sure he'd make a great contributor he is somewhat contreversial and doesnt suffer fools (for which read anyone who doesnt agree with him) ... i suspect his wab career would be exciting but short
other names for the list from the living would be stephen jay gould, and james lovelock.
and from the deceased
Plinney, Archimedes, and Galileo
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05-08-2008, 06:16 PM
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Steve Erwin from the Crocdile Diary series on TV and his wife Terry
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05-08-2008, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by big bill Steve Erwin from the Crocdile Diary series on TV and his wife Terry | Yep.. one of my favourites too bill. |
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and Kate Humble for the guys
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05-08-2008, 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ron1863 and Kate Humble for the guys | nah ... charlotte ullhenbrook ... hubba hubba
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05-08-2008, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by eeyore nah ... charlotte ullhenbrook ... hubba hubba | charlotte ullhenbrook????????
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05-08-2008, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by deer boy charlotte ullhenbrook????????
Ellie Harrison | Erm, can we stay with the intellectual contributers rather than the eye candy. I have to say Kate Humble gets in on the intellect... so do the others. Oh it is so hard to decide. |
05-08-2008, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Meta menardi Erm, can we stay with the intellectual contributers rather than the eye candy. | in that case i nominate great uncle bulgaria 
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05-08-2008, 09:59 PM
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David Attenborough and the late Jack Hargreaves
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05-08-2008, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by eeyore in that case i nominate great uncle bulgaria | You have pierced my disguise.  |
05-08-2008, 10:31 PM
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The late Fred Dibnah a feast of knowledge on many subjects...JIM
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05-08-2008, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by eeyore other names for the list from the living would be stephen jay gould, and james lovelock. | Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Pete, but Stephen Jay Gould died in May 2002. I have his books on the same shelf as Dawkins'. Sometimes, in the dead of night, I swear I can hear them still arguing!
James Lovelock is still going strong though.
Dave P.
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