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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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The life of the skies / |c Jonathan Rosen. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Birding at the end of nature. | |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2008. | ||
| 300 | |a 324 p. : |b ill. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-320). | ||
| 520 | |a 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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