Volume 55, Number 17 · November 6, 2008
A Field Guide to the Birders
By Robert O. Paxton
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
by Scott Weidensaul
Harcourt, 358 pp., $25.00
Flights Against the Sunset: Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son
by Kenn Kaufman
Houghton Mifflin, 225 pp., $24.00
Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal
Lyons Press, 437 pp., $29.95
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
by Jonathan Rosen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 324 pp., $24.00
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird
by Bruce Barcott
Random House, 313 pp., $26.00
On August 12, 1970, FBI agents landed on Block Island, a speck of glacial deposit off Rhode Island, looking for Daniel Berrigan, SJ, one of the 'Catonsville Nine' Vietnam War protesters who had burned draft records in Maryland. Hoping to pass unobserved, the G-men disguised themselves as bird-watchers. Block Island, known for its rare birds, was one of the few places in the United States in 1970 where binoculars and a copy of Roger Tory Peterson's A Field Guide to the Birds made one inconspicuous.
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