Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished BirdsPenguin, 14.5.2009 - 384 sivua A 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. |
Sisältö
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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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds Christopher Cokinos Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2009 |
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds Christopher Cokinos Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2009 |
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