Search - List of Books by Roger Tory Peterson

In this century, no one has done more to promote an interest in living creatures than Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide.

• A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America (Houghton Mifflin? fifth edition. 2002, earlier editions 1934? 1939? 1941? 1947? 1980? 1994)
• The Field Guide Art of Roger Tory Peterson (Easton Press, 1990. 2 volumes)
• Save the Birds with Antony W. Diamond? Rudolf L. Schreiber? Walter Cronkite (Houghton Mifflin? 1987)
• Peterson First Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America (Houghton Mifflin? 1986)
• Peterson First Guide to Birds of North America (Houghton Mifflin? 1986)
• The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio with Virginia Peterson (Abbeville Press? 1981)
• Penguins (Houghton Mifflin? 1979)
• Birds of America (National Audubon Society? 1978)
• A Field Guide to Mexican Birds with Edward Chalif (Houghton Mifflin, 1973, Spanish translation? Editorial Diana? 1989)
• A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America with Margaret McKenny). (Houghton Mifflin? 1968)
• The World of Birds with James Fisher (Doubleday? 1964)
• A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas and Adjacent States (Houghton Mifflin? 1960, revised 1963)
• A Bird-Watcher's Anthology (Harcourt Brace? 1957)
• Wild America with James Fisher (Houghton Mifflin, 1955)
• A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe with Guy Mountfort, and P.A.D. Hollom (William Collins, 1954)
• 1965 edition: revised and enlarged in collaboration with I.J. Ferguson-Lees and D.I.M. Wallace
• 1971 impression: ISBN 0 00 212020 8
• 2004 edition: ISBN 978-0007192342
• Wildlife in Color (Houghton Mifflin? 1951)
• How to Know the Birds (Houghton Mifflin? 1949)
• Birds Over America (Dodd, Mead and Company? 1948, revised 1964)
• A Field Guide to Western Birds (Houghton Mifflin? 1941, revised 1961? 1990)
• The Audubon Guide to Attracting Birds with John H. Baker (National Audubon Society? 1941)

• Devlin, John C. and Grace Naismith The World of Roger Tory Peterson - An Authorised Biography. (New York Times Books. 1977) ISBN 0-8129-0694-2
• Carlson, Douglas Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography (The University of Texas Press. 2007) ISBN 978-0-292-71680-3.
• Ehrlich, Paul R., David S. Dobkin and Darryl Wheye The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (Fireside. 1988) ISBN 0-6716-5989-8.
• Rosenthal, Elizabeth J. Birdwatcher: the Life of Roger Tory Peterson (The Lyons Press. 2008) ISBN 978-1599212944.