Ernest Thompson Seton
The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist

by David L. Witt
Foreword by David Attenborough

Rediscover the story of Ernest Thompson Seton with the newly released hardcover book which also serves as the accompanying catalog for the New Mexico History Museum exhibition: Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton.

The book is authored by David L. Witt, curator, botanist and the Academy’s Seton Legacy Project Director, who has spent over 40 years researching, studying and writing about Ernest Thompson Seton.

This in-depth biography gives rare insight to the experience and life of Ernest Thompson Seton, who came to Clayton, New Mexico, hired by ranchers to hunt down an elusive wolf, and who left New Mexico, a completely changed man — transformed by his encounter with a single wolf. Seton went on to become a leading conservationist of his time. In 1902 he began developing youth outdoor and nature education programs, contributing essential ideas to what would become the worldwide Scouting movement.

With a foreword written by Sir David Attenborough, and over 200 illustrations and photographs, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist, is a perceptive and thoughtful volume about a remarkable man who changed his world, and ours.

Published by Gibbs Smith, 2010

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