Birds and People: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. Cocker presents Eurasian Larks as a prime example of one of the recurring themes of the book, our culture’s tendency to cherish a bird in poetry and myth and to simultaneously exploit, even ravish, the actual bird. As they say, the relationship is complicated.
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