Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00FOR25N4
Publish date: July 27th 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Ecology,
Animals,
Birds
You would think, based on the title, cover, and back cover description, that this would be about crows. You would be wrong. Instead, it's a 236 page pat on her own back by the author for being oh so much more observant of nature than everyone else. She calls herself a "radical birdwatcher" and ...
Interesting, inspiring, and insightful at times. This book did make me look at the city around me me in a totally different way.UPDATE: 8/1/13 Ok, so I finished this book a little less than a month ago, and I've been trying to do as [a:Lyanda Lynn Haupt|16810|Lyanda Lynn Haupt|http://d202m5krfqbp...
First the nitpicky bits: an editor should have picked up on the fact that Haupt calls crane flies 'cane flies' throughout. And there was one wincing 'tales' for tails. This isn't really a book about crows at all. It's a memoir, a book about Haupt being alert to her surroundings, a book about waking ...
Crow Planet provided plenty of "aha" moments for me. I've always differentiated between the cities where I live and the natural world. Nature has always been "out there" for me. Haupt goes a long way toward removing this artificial barrier. By thinking of urban landscapes as part of the natural worl...
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