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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. So, I just sit here, amazed at this book.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). The Prologue presents the two contrasting obsessions, a narrative that intrigues with promises of more details to come. The Feather Thief is divided into four parts.