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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Naturedi Jonathan Rosen
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I have become a birder (amateur) in retirement and joined a bird club so this book spoke to me. I loved his exploration of why this is an endlessly fascinating hobby at all levels. He also brought in the capacity for obsessiveness, something I avoid, and some history of bird classification. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality--historical and literary, spiritual and scientific--to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve. The Life of the Skies is at once a history of bird-watching in America, a meditation on changes in our views about killing animals, and a deeply personal book about the transforming qualities of a life spent observing the natural world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)598.07234Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Birds Education, research, related topics Research Descriptive research BirdwatchingClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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