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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

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I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. But before that, it was these feathered dreams that would carry me across the globe on adventures, in search of birds in faraway places. (p.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. That’s pretty much the reaction of anybody hearing this for the first time.