**One of our greatest literary naturalists turns her famed observational eye on herself in this captivating memoir.** How is it that an untrained, self-taught observer and writer could see things that professional anthropologists often missed? How is that a pioneering woman, working in male-dominat
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
โ Scribed by Maclear, Kyo
- Book ID
- 109553146
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 8 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781501154201
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โฆ Synopsis
A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life--a field guide to things small and significant.
When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn't seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and harbors, along eaves and on wires. In a world that values big and fast, Maclear looks to the small, the steady, the slow accumulations of knowledge, and the lulls that leave room for contemplation.
A distilled, crystal-like companion to H is for Hawk , Birds Art Life celebrates the particular madness of chasing after birds in the urban environment and explores what happens when the core lessons of birding are applied to other aspects of art and life. Moving with ease between the granular and the grand, peering into the inner landscape as much as the outer one, this is a deeply personal year-long inquiry into big...
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