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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780063223141
- Book Title
- Birding to Change the World : a Memoir
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Nature, Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Social Activists, Animals / Birds, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
- Item Weight
- 22.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0063223147
ISBN-13
9780063223141
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20057238873
Product Key Features
Book Title
Birding to Change the World : a Memoir
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Social Activists, Animals / Birds, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-031179
Reviews
"Not just a delightful story but a powerful one, showing how we can open doors into the natural world, and hence into the fight to defend it. Birds as teachers--a wonderful idea!" -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Delightful and exceptionally readable. O'Kane's book may not actually change the world but it just might change the way you look at it." -- Dan Egan, author of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes "This immersive book is touching, funny, and profoundly human. Through tragedy and hope, outgoing community action and profound introspective reflection, Trish O'Kane leads us through the world of birds and through her own. If you are not a birder before reading this tale, you will be when you're through." -- Paul Robbins, Dean, Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Not just a delightful story but a powerful one, showing how we can open doors into the natural world, and hence into the fight to defend it. Birds as teachers--a wonderful idea!" -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Delightful and exceptionally readable. O'Kane's book may not actually change the world but it just might change the way you look at it." -- Dan Egan, author of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes "Trish O'Kane has discovered a terrific way to include more joy, beauty, awe, and wonder in your life: She teaches people about birds. With vivid lessons about the marvel of migration, the hope of nesting--and the peril of our changing climate--Birding to Change the World will do more than just change the way you view the planet. It will show you how to make it better, too." -- Mark Obmascik, author of The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession "This immersive book is touching, funny, and profoundly human. Through tragedy and hope, outgoing community action and profound introspective reflection, Trish O'Kane leads us through the world of birds and through her own. If you are not a birder before reading this tale, you will be when you're through." -- Paul Robbins, Dean, Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison "What a marvelous book! Page by page, Trish O'Kane instructs and delights, teaching new ways to think about environmental activism, social justice, community, landscape, and the birds who revolutionized how O'Kane moves through just about every part of her life. Birding to Change the World is a brilliant and expansive guide to how to learn to be more human by learning to be more like birds. An instructive celebration of our wild wonderful world." -- Camille T. Dungy, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden "Fascinating, insightful, informative, and inspirational--Birding to Change the World shows how to be a person and a citizen of the world. I could not put it down." -- Bernd Heinrich, award-winning biologist and author of The Snoring Bird "Trish O'Kane has written a moving, inspiring invitation to the great conversation going on all around us, a conversation that can yet save us from the loneliness of our species." -- Richard Louv, author of the international bestseller Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder "This engaging new book by Trish O'Kane dissolves the boundaries between memoir, nature writing, conservation treatise, bird guide, and ecological manifesto. O'Kane is an intrepid educator who was drawn to birds through the sometimes-tragic upheavals of her life. Through her story we are reminded that birds can offer, simply by their presence, a healing of body and spirit, a call to earthen activism, instruction in social justice, and pure joy. Birds become a beautiful reminder of ecology's greatest lesson: that all aspects of life are always and forever interconnected." -- Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Rooted "A human rights journalist embraces environmental justice...in her engaging debut memoir...A delightful homage to birds and nature in general." -- Kirkus Reviews "Affecting.... [O'Kane's] reverence for her avian subjects comes through on every page, and she retains a journalist's keen eye for detail: 'The male cardinal reminded me of an Irishman, standing up to leave his pub at midnight, head held high and chest inflated as he sang his traditional a cappella goodbye song.' This soars." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "O'Kane's hard-to-put-down memoir of...the salvation found in the natural world will resonate with readers, aspiring writers, the environmentally minded, activists, and bird lovers." -- Booklist "This is a love letter to birds--and to the people who love them." -- LitHub
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
598.07234
Synopsis
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish O'Kane never expected to be a birder. It was a lone red cardinal and a bumptious cast of house sparrows that changed everything for O'Kane after Hurricane Katrina shattered her life in New Orleans. Watching birds thrive throughout the devastated city became her salvation and set her on a new path. Soon O'Kane found herself pursuing an environmental science PhD in Wisconsin, where she became a full-on bird obsessive--logging hours and hours in a stunningly diverse urban park, filling field notebooks with observations of bird doings and dramas, and volunteering in a wildlife rehabilitation center bird nursery. But it wasn't until that park, her bird-watching haven, was threatened with development that O'Kane became an environmental activist. Taking her cues from the birds, she mustered a mighty flock of fellow human park lovers to raise their voices and save the park. Each chapter in Birding to Change the World features at least one species of bird that O'Kane has learned from. She recounts the astonishing science of bird life, including migration and survival strategies, along with many moving and compelling stories about birds and the humans who love them. In this heartfelt memoir, O'Kane shows what birds can teach us--and how that education can be a transformative force for social change., In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid attention to nature. But then Hurricane Katrina destroyed her New Orleans home, sending her into an emotional tailspin. Enter a scrappy cast of feathered characters--first a cardinal, urban parrots, and sparrows, then a catbird, owls, a bittern, and a woodcock--that cheered her up and showed her a new path. Inspired, O'Kane moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to pursue an environmental studies PhD. There she became a full-on bird obsessive--logging hours in a stunningly biodiverse urban park, filling field notebooks with bird doings and dramas, and teaching ornithology to college students and middle-school kids. When Warner Park--her daily birdwatching haven--was threatened with development, O'Kane and her neighbors mustered a mighty murmuration of nature lovers, young and old, to save the birds' homes. Through their efforts, she learned that once you get outside and look around, you're likely to fall in love with a furred or feathered creature--and find a flock of your own. In Birding to Change the World, O'Kane details the astonishing science of bird life, from migration and parenting to the territorial defense strategies that influenced her own activism. A warm and compelling weave of science and social engagement, this is the story of an improbably band of bird lovers who saved their park. And it is a blueprint for muscular citizenship, powered by joy.
LC Classification Number
QL677.5.O53 2024
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