10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2022
It’s the subject of the eleventh essay in this collection, almost smack in the middle of the 22 pieces that comprise the book. Her essays are structured pieces of writing with layers of personal stories over literature over memories, punctuated with emotions, a little bit of philosophizing, and humor. Rogers can.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore ”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” The checklist of the Louisiana Ornithological Society was at 485 as of August 2020.) Marybeth Lima tells her birding and personal stories in straightforward, honest language that never skimps on detail (sometimes a bit too much detail) but never overflows on emotion.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
This is what makes this memoir more than a collection of anecdotes; it’s our opportunity to understand the different parts that make the whole of a black gay man negotiating the natural world and the more challenging, the adjacent “real” world. Raw honesty is felt throughout. It’s powerful writing.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. She says in her Introduction that she was inspired to compile this collection by a much earlier essay, an article by E.B. Press, 2020, 304p. Press, 2011). Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
In most every one of his books (or articles, like those that were collected in his last book, A Naturalist At Large ) he poses a question about the natural world — often a question, like the central one in White Feathers, that no one else has thought much about — and then solves it. I saw it because I looked up.”
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