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The life of the skies / Jonathan Rosen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosen, Jonathan, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bird watching--United States--Anecdotes.
- Bird watching.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
- Contents:
- Part I Backyard Birds
- 1 The Ghost Bird 19
- 2 Audubon's Parrot 32
- 3 Love and Death 45
- 4 Whitman's Mockingbird 58
- 5 Bear Necessities 71
- 6 Thoreau's Spyglass 82
- 7 Sailing to Gondwanaland 95
- 8 Audubon's Monkey 109
- 9 The Republic of Feathers 122
- 10 Where "E" Meets "S" 132
- 11 Frost at Midnight 146
- Part II Birds of Paradise
- 12 Missing Links 167
- 13 Bird of Paradise 177
- 14 Rivers of Doubt 188
- 15 A Passage to Palestine 200
- 16 The Hidden Swamp 212
- 17 Birding in the Dark 223
- 18 The Doctor Bird 237
- 19 American Hoopoe 253
- 20 The Bird is the Word 269.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320).
- ISBN:
- 9780374186302
- 0374186308
- OCLC:
- 145939745
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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