Kiel
Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).
Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
maker, science editor and writer.
In the 1960s, he studied birds in the
Sahara Desert
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and wrote several
ornithology
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...
articles on the nesting behavior and breeding biology of desert birds.
George learned the trade of cameraman at North German Broadcasting, a public institution based in
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
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, and won the 1970
Adolf Grimme Award
The Grimme-Preis ("Grimme Award"; prior to 2011: Adolf-Grimme-Preis) is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme.deserts and the
ecology
Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...
of
tropical rain forest
Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as ''lowland equatori ...
s.
His first book was published in 1976 with 114 illustrations,
''In den Wüsten dieser Erde'' (
Hoffmann und Campe
Hoffmann is a German surname.
People A
* Albert Hoffmann (1846–1924), German horticulturist
* Alexander Hoffmann (born 1975), German politician
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, 1976).
Its first
English language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the ...
edition was published in the United States next year, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, ''In the Deserts of this World'' (Harcourt Brace, 1977).
That work was recognized by the U.S.
National Book Award
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The Nat ...
National Book Foundation
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. Retrieved 2012-03-10. As of 2012-03-11, NBF lists a spurious Translation winner followed by all five finalists including the true winner. The spurious winner, Nemerov's translation of George, conflates the Poetry winner (immediately above) and the Translation winner.
Beginning in 1976, George worked for the German periodical '' GEO'', first as a free-lance writer
and since 1979 as a full-time employee: science editor, photographer, and expedition leader. He is the author of numerous books and has won several awards for photography.
He won the Academy of Geoscience prize for journalists in 1993 and is honorary member of the Frankfurt Geographical Society since 1998. George won the annual Inge and Werner Grüter Award for science journalism in 2000, which cited "his outstanding contributions to the dissemination of scientific knowledge about desert research, botany, paleontology and evolution.""Inge and Werner Grüter Award for outstanding science journalism awards Uwe George"
Google Translate
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rendering of source referenced at German Wikipedia). Retrieved 2012-03-11.