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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 skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” 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. Larks, for example.

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