Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder write by Julia Zarankin. This book was released on 2020-09-12. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled on birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes and discuss the finer points of optics with disturbing fervour. What she never could have predicted was that she would become one of them. Not only would she come to identify proudly as a birder, but birding would ultimately lead her to find love, uncover a new language and lay down her roots. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder tells the story of finding meaning in midlife through birds. The book follows the peregrinations of a narrator who learns more from birds than she ever anticipated, as she begins to realize that she herself is a migratory species: born in the former Soviet Union, growing up in Vancouver and Toronto, studying and working in the United States and living in Paris. Coming from a Russian immigrant family of concert pianists who believed that the outdoors were for “other people,” Julia Zarankin recounts the challenges and joys of unexpectedly discovering one’s wild side and finding one’s tribe in the unlikeliest of places. Zarankin’s thoughtful and witty anecdotes illuminate the joyful experience of a new discovery and the surprising pleasure to be found while standing still on the edge of a lake at six a.m. In addition to confirmed nature enthusiasts, this book will appeal to readers of literary memoir, offering keen insight on what it takes to find one’s place in the world.
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder write by Julia Zarankin. This book was released on 2020-05-02. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A writer discovers an unexpected passion for birding, along with a new understanding of the world and her own place in it.
Bird Brother
Bird Brother - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bird Brother write by Rodney Stotts. This book was released on 2022-02-03. Bird Brother available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Bird Brother, Rodney Stotts shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration affecting the lives of everyone he knew. He was no exception, but he was also employed by the newly founded Earth Conservation Corps, helping to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River. This work eventually sent his life in a different direction, as he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Eye-opening, witty, and moving, Bird Brother is a testament to the healing power of nature, and a reminder that no matter how much heartbreak we've endured, we still have the capacity to give back to our communities and follow our dreams.
The Oil Man and the Sea
The Oil Man and the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oil Man and the Sea write by Arno Kopecky. This book was released on 2013-10-19. The Oil Man and the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sailing trip along the proposed Northern Gateway marine route with a fresh new voice in non-fiction. With oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway proposal nearing approval, supertankers loaded with two million barrels of oil may soon be plying the waters from northern British Columbia down the wild Pacific Coast. This region is home to the largest tract of temperate rainforest on earth, First Nations who have lived there for millennia, and some of the world’s most biodiverse waters—one spill is all it will take to erase ten thousand years of evolution. Arno Kopecky and his companions travel aboard a forty-one-foot sailboat exploring the pristine route—a profoundly volatile marine environment that registered 1,275 marine vessel incidents—mechanical failures, collisions, explosions, groundings, and sinkings—between 1999 and 2009 alone. Neither Kopecky nor the boat’s owner have ever sailed before, yet they brave these waters alone when their captain leaves them part way through the journey. Written with Kopecky’s quick humor and deft touch, this is a rich evocation of a mythic place and the ecology, culture, and history of a legendary region with a knife at its throat.
The Last River Rat
The Last River Rat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last River Rat write by Kenny Salwey. This book was released on 2017-10-16. The Last River Rat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kenny Salwey is a modern-day American hermit who has lived most of his life in the Mississippi river bottoms, coming to know the river ecosystem with an intimacy unavailable to most. Now, Kenny shares his love of, and knowledge about, the mighty river. The Last River Rat is a seasonal look at Kenny's unique life.
