In this illuminating and charming book, Rosen shows the poetry, the philosophy, and the history--natural and human--of the strange modern pastime of bird-watching.--Steven Pinker, author of "The Language Instinct" and "The Stuff of Thought."
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In this illuminating and charming book, Rosen shows the poetry, the philosophy, and the history--natural and human--of the strange modern pastime of bird-watching.--Steven Pinker, author of "The Language Instinct" and "The Stuff of Thought."
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Jonathan Rosen has written a splendid book. It presents an odyssey that investigates our place in nature--in terms of our relationship with (and our view of) birds. This exploration draws on literary, historical, and mythological sources. Characters in this odyssey include John James Audubon, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace (among others). Notable dramas include the (ongoing) search for the Ivory-billed woodpecker and other manifestations of the ?diminished thing(s)? that constitute the modern world.
Just read the stunning prologue ?Biophilia,? and I think you may agree with me that the Pulitzer Prize committee blundered in overlooking this fine work of non-fiction.
