* Pursuit
* Bird
* Place
*The eBook * The paperback *This Website
The complete ebook is available --
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A paperback
is also available. Image. Another.
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Both ebook and paperback have full-color photos, one for each of the 30 birds, a beautiful portrait heading each chapter.
At the same time, this website, which contains portions of the ebook, grows periodically (slowly) through sequential postings.
If the postings here are not sufficient to whet your appetite, see the
Extended Table of Contents in the Addendum
for a summary of what the entire book contains, chapter by chapter.
The reviews are in:
"Quite an amazing production!",
"It is a great read!",
"I love it!",
"love the feel of free range authorship",
"What a great read!",
"thoroughly enjoyed it!",
"infectious!",
"epic!"
These are all from pre-publication. Wows! continue. Now, as of beginning of 2024, all reviews on Amazon are 5 star.
A book about biodiversity, but also a book about American, indeed North American, diversity.
ebook note for beginners:
Download a free app for your Android, iOS, Mac, PC, or other web device. This will enable you to read any Kindle ebook on literally any device. No need to transfer or convert files.
Everything is automatically reconfigured to the size of your screen, something this website also does, as you see if you are viewing on your mobile phone or tablet.
Here is the link to these apps: Free.
Further guidance: Guide.
Not your usual website, is this?
Table of Contents
For name of bird treated in each chapter, click Random Footnotes.
See Photo Credits for all photo artists exhibited in book.
Arizona mountain paradise, internment camp, hitchhiking.
High, high in the Rockies.
And on a key named Hospital!
Rio Grande crossing.
Whiskers, Distance, Delaware, enjoyment.
Saint Peter, pelagic zone, Texaco mugs, lamps.
In the desert, naked as the day I was born.
Cold German wisdom, tribes, Apples, Everglades quest.
Palos Verde.
C & O Canal -- and computing.
High, high in the sky. Always.
Yorkshire, Orange, drumming.
California, New Jersey, wife of Odysseus.
Sunshine state's interior, mandibulation, Alexander Skutch.
Oceanic, hole in the ground, Pacific.
Neighbor to the North. The devil fired three shots. Hawaii.
Flat Colorado, auriculars, 4 million flock, not Hotspur.
Email aid, Purple possibility, pair bonding. Elliot (cows). Theosophy.
Dentist's drill, airport habitat, parallel perching, nights out.
Tiny cousin to a giant, big-city park, 80% fall, "brood reducer."
1 flock 2bn, Martha-last, Incas-last, cabaret act, Kendall, Monks, genome.
Boompies, supercilium, Siberia, CCC, migrant catastrophe.
Notorious jursidiction, classy shorebird, French diet, candlesticks, oil.
Hiawatha, beavers, U.P., Connecticut, Audubon and family of scientists.
Searching for Quail Commons, Baird, Cassin, Lawrence, Fighting Fred.
Arctic to Equator, cosmic rays.
Walk-in-the-Water Rd, scrub, shape-shifter, procoracoid foramen
Names and names, Linnaeus (6 names), Nominalism, digging wells.
Soft-shell crabs, baby seal eyeballs, gouging whales, 1664, Sotterly.
Skutch again, Dr Jenkins, in Florida but not in Florida, rufous pileum, C.R.
Horseshoe crabs, chewing with your legs, Blue-blood Harvest, Moonbird.
Special note: For a listing of chapters that includes each bird's name, click on Random Footnotes.
* includes author profile
** in ebook and paperback only
One last thing:
Hardy has published a new book, this one about China.
Just as with the book here, there's a companion website:
Birds treated, but not featured (see Photo Credits):
-- for less than the price of an
