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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers : A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

by: Cokinos, Christopher (Author)

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers : A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

by: Cokinos, Christopher (Author)

ISBN 13:
9781585427222
ISBN 10:
1585427225
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/14/2009
Publisher: Tarcher

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Summary

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.

Introduction	p. 1
The Carolina Parakeet
The Forgotten Parakeet	p. 7
Exotic	p. 24
Hope in a Cage	p. 44
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
In Search of the Lord God Bird	p. 61
Returnings	p. 88
The Heath Hen
The Fire Birds	p. 121
Capawack	p. 150
A Phoenix on the Vineyard	p. 168
The Passenger Pigeon
The Dark Beneath Their Wings	p. 197
The Boy and the Pigeon	p. 228
Martha's Story	p. 258
The Labrador Duck and the Great Auk
The Strangest Sea	p. 281
In a Northern Gulf: Journey to Bird Rock	p. 305
Afterword	p. 337
Acknowledgments	p. 347
Selected Bibliography	p. 351
Art and Text Credits	p. 357
Index	p. 359
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers : A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers : A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

9781585427222

1585427225

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