The life of the skies /
Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality--hist...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality--historical and literary, spiritual and scientific--to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve. The Life of the Skies is at once a history of bird-watching in America, a meditation on changes in our views about killing animals, and a deeply personal book about the transforming qualities of a life spent observing the natural world. |
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| Physical Description: | 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320). |
| ISBN: | 9780374186302 0374186308 |