Better Living Through Birding
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0593242386
ISBN-13
9780593242384
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Imprint
Random House Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 13th, 2023
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
432 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 21.70 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
MemoirsWildlife: birds & birdwatching
Ksh 4,150.00
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.
Wondrous . . . captivating.Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of An Immense World
A Washington Post and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal
Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. While in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the birdwatching ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old when what might have been a routine encounter with a dog walker exploded age-old racial tensions. Coopers viral video of the incident would send shock waves through the nation.
In Better Living Through Birding, Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in America today. From sharpened senses that work just as well at a protest as in a park to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach us about self-acceptance, Better Living Through Birding exults in the pleasures of a life lived in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover them yourself.
Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Coopers story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him, from his days at Marvel Comics introducing the first gay storylines to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas, and the Himalayas. Better Living Through Birding recounts Coopers journey through the wonderful world of birds and what they can teach us about life, if only we would look and listen.
Wondrous . . . captivating.Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of An Immense World
A Washington Post and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal
Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. While in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the birdwatching ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old when what might have been a routine encounter with a dog walker exploded age-old racial tensions. Coopers viral video of the incident would send shock waves through the nation.
In Better Living Through Birding, Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in America today. From sharpened senses that work just as well at a protest as in a park to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach us about self-acceptance, Better Living Through Birding exults in the pleasures of a life lived in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover them yourself.
Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Coopers story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him, from his days at Marvel Comics introducing the first gay storylines to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas, and the Himalayas. Better Living Through Birding recounts Coopers journey through the wonderful world of birds and what they can teach us about life, if only we would look and listen.
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