Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Sam Keen, the New York Timesbest-selling author of Fire in the Belly, has spent a lifetime reflecting on nature. In Sightings, a collection of essays, bird watching forms the basis for observations spiritual and soulful, witty and wise. He describes his childhood ramblings in the silence of the Tennessee wilderness as feeling distinctly more spiritualthan the hard pews of his grandmother's church. Later in life, the presumed extinction and subsequent rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker prompts a meditation on the nature of the sacred. Blessed with moments of beauty and the insight to recognize them as such, Keen translates the marvels of nature into the language of heart and soul.
Liked Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Return of the Osprey: A Season of Birds, Flight, and Wonder Shares nature, nonfiction, birds -
Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town Shares nature, nonfiction, memoir -
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon Shares birds, nature, nonfiction -
One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives Shares nature, nonfiction, birds
“People who read Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds tend to reach for these next.”
“If you want more of the same (science about nature), start with these.”
-
Sibley's Birding Basics: How to Identify Birds, Using the Clues in Feathers, Habitats, Behaviors, and Sounds
-
Crow Country
- The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Eastern and Central North America, A Guide to Listening
-
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
