Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished BirdsA prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species. |
Contents
Exotic | |
Hope in a Cage | |
In Search of the Lord God Bird | |
Returnings | |
The Fire Birds | |
Capawack | |
A Phoenix on the Vineyard | |
The Boy and the Pigeon | |
Marthas Story | |
The Strangest | |
Journey to Bird Rock | |
Afterword | |
The Passenger Pigeon | |
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