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Author and naturalist Scott Weidensaul has written more than two dozen books on natural history, including Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Ghost with Trembling Wings, about the search for species that may or may not be extinct; and his most recent book, Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding. He lectures widely on wildlife and environmental topics, and is an active field researcher, specializing in birds of prey and hummingbirds. He lives in the Appalachians of eastern Pennsylvania.
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Now in paperback:
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
Harcourt
Paperback: September, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-15-603355-8 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-15-101247-3 (hardcover)
358 pages
Praise for Of a Feather
"Delightful...Weidensaul writes with the ease of someone who is confident that the story he's recounting will hold our attention." New York Times Book Review
"At once gossipy and scholarly, Of a Feather recounts rivalries, controversies, bad behavior and other key episodes in the making of modern birding. Lively and illuminating." Washington Post Book World
"Here's a delightfully colorful history of birdwatching from America's most lyrical writer on the topic - featuring a cast of failed bankers, angry ladies, shotgun ornithologists, and felonious luminaries. Weidensaul puts his finger squarely on just why this pastime is so phenomenally popular." Orion Magazine
"With engaging prose, Weidensaul leads us into the obsessive world of early ornithology and the adventures and misadventures of its adherents in the New World...His passion and love of the avian world are apparent on every page." Salon
"Scott Weidensaul, one of our greatest nature writers and a keen birder himself, has captured this pursuit in an eminently readable history. Of a Feather is at once concise and comprehensive, wacky and philosophical, as colorful and multifaceted as the subject itself."
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Kenn Kaufman, author of Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
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