Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

by Christopher Cokinos
Category: "Nature/Science"
Pages:336
Year of Publication:2000
Date Read:08/21/2001
Notes:A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

Fascinating history of the final days of six extinct species of birds (Carolina Parakeet, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Heath Hen, Passenger Pigeon, Labrador Duck, Great Auk) and the people who tried, and didn't try, to save them.
My Rating: 9

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Review - Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

The author is occasionally stridently politically correct, but the history is riveting.
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