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...
| Main Author: | Rosen, Jonathan, 1963- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| 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 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-320). |
| ISBN: |
9780374186302 0374186308 |
| Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |