Jim Robbins
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Our relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch them, listen to them, keep them as pets, wear their feathers, even converse with them. Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically; draw us out into nature to seek their beauty; and let us experience vicariously...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xx, 233 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Description
Describes the efforts of a former alcoholic nurseryman, whose near-death experience prompted him to attempt to find the best specimens of the U.S.'s 872 known species of trees and use them to propagate their offspring around the world.--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines the ecologically and spiritually invaluable contributions to humans made by our feathered friends, from the hummingbird that influenced the Wright brother's airplane design to the song of the chickadee, considered to be the most sophisticated language in the animal world. --