"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"," is Evelyn Waugh's take on the gentleman naturalist in "Scoop" (1938) a role which Peter Matthiessen seems to have taken to heart.
It's a job. Somebody has to note the first cookoo of spring.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 20.2 ms ] threadTL;DR: the CIA recruited people in the 1950s.
It's a job. Somebody has to note the first cookoo of spring.