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Bird: Object Lessons

Autor Erik Anderson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2020
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too sentimental, too precious. Birds don't express hope. They express themselves. But this tension between the versions of nature that lodge in our minds and the realities that surround us is the central theme of Bird. This is no field guide. It's something far more unusual and idiosyncratic, balancing science with story, anatomy with metaphor, habitat with history. Anderson illuminates the dark underbelly of our bird fetish and offers a fresh, alternative vision of one of nature's most beloved objects.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501353352
ISBN-10: 1501353357
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 121 x 165 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

In typically eclectic fashion for an Object Lessons book, Bird takes the reader on a worldwide and historical tour of strange and interesting ornithologists, amateur bird enthusiasts, botanists, and paleontologists, whilst also taking the time for 30 brief, linked portraits of individual birds

Notă biografică

Erik Anderson is the author of three previous books of nonfiction: The Poetics of Trespass (2010), Estranger (2016), and Flutter Point: Essays (2017).

Cuprins

1 Put a Bird on It2 The Hater's Guide to Birds3 The Buoy Bird4 The Hater's Guide to Birds5 What a Name Can Do6 The Hater's Guide to Birds7 There Never Was a BirdAcknowledgments Index

Recenzii

Anderson follows the trail of fallen tail feathers across the grid, articulating his findings with an undeniable personal touch, and a philosophical sting that leaves you wondering, 'what made us fall so deeply in love with birds? Why did it stick? What is beauty?' among other considerations. Anderson is the lead explorer in a journey that, for many, is long overdue. Before we know it, the journey extends farther than bird-watching and observation, and we are left looking at nature with the absence of our human goggles.
"In his engaging writing style, Anderson skillfully introduces the reader to the spectacular world of birds."
From tiny corpses to obsessive scientists, hot sauce on the Gulf and tears in the Hall of Asian Animals, Bird is at once a quirky natural history and a personal journey, one that says as much about humanity as about the feathered creatures we have eaten, shot, studied, extincted, protected, and, sometimes, watched. As I write these words, science tells us North American bird populations have declined by a third. Reading this book is one of the steps we can take toward giving birds back to the air that belongs, first, to them.