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The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
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Very, very few books this physically beautiful are published today. This is a true gem! The author has collected poems, short stories, etc. from authors worldwide which concern or include birds. The numerous illustrations are classic-looking drawings similar to Audubon and that style of drawing. There are no photographs of birds. The paper is of unusua... »
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Perpetual Motion (New Canadian Library Series)
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a hard slog, but well worth the effort. robert fraser sets out to build a perpetual motion machine in 19th century rural ontario to end a life of agricultural toil trying to control nature, and as the editorials above suggest, goes a bit nutbar, eviscerating the natural world and alienating his own family in the process.
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Last of the Curlews (New Canadian Library)
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin found this slim 1955 novel on a shelf in the house of friends, and, struck with the "plain, succinct evocation and beauty" of Fred Bodsworth's writing, suggested its reissue to a publisher. This is a quick, elegant, devastating read. The Eskimo curlew was a species of shorebird that migrated (and perhaps, in extr... »
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