Sometimes it just takes the right bird to awaken us. Rather, from the mango-colored western tanager that rescues her from a bout of altitude sickness in Sequoia National Park to ancient sandhill cranes in the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, and from the snowy plovers building shallow nests with bits of shell and grass to the white-breasted nuthatch that regularly visits the apricot tree behind her family’s casita in Santa Fe, for Kumar, birds “become a portal to a more vivid, enchanted world.”Īt a time when climate change, habitat loss, and the reckless use of pesticides are causing widespread extinction of species, Kumar’s reflections on these messengers from our distant past and harbingers of our future offer luminous evidence of her suggestion that “seeds of transformation lie dormant in all of our hearts. Kumar’s perspective is not that of a list keeper, counting and cataloguing species. one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what were most concerned about in the world around us. Tracing her movements across the American West, this stirring collection of essays brings the avian world richly to life. 11 quotes from Andrea Barrett: We write in response to what we read and learn and in the end we write out of our deepest selves. It was only in her twenties, living in Los Angeles and working on films, that she began to rediscover her place in the landscape-and in the cosmos-by way of watching birds.
After moving to North America as a teenager, she found herself increasingly distanced from more than human life and discouraged by the civilization she saw contributing to its destruction. Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar.
They tune me into the seasons, and into myself.” Science remains a sharp focal point in the rest of the titles and Barrett’s own admission to being an obsessive researcher no doubt enhances her elegant writing style and sharp eye for detail.An Apple “November 2022 Best Books of the Month” What he does not bargain for is the fact that because of the vast number of immigrants on Grosse Isle, the hospital is overwhelmed and that his best efforts are almost a hindrance. In Ship Fever, the title novella, a Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history’s most tragic epidemics and expects that he will be able to alleviate some of the suffering he encounters. An elegant collection of short stories, this is an interesting take on the men and women of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries who were interested in science and scientific exploration. Barrett typically writes historical fiction, and this is one of her best. Her book, Ship Fever won the National Book Award in 1996. Barrett was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Andrea Barrett, born in 1954, is an American novelist, and short story writer.
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