Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

by John Wilson Foster

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 1907903658

ISBN-13 9781907903656

Publisher Notting Hill Editions

Imprint Notting Hill Editions

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 1st, 2014

Print length 242 Pages

Weight 272 grams

Dimensions 18.90 x 11.20 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Literary essays

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This is a story of a scarcely credible abundance, of flocks of birds so vast they made the sky invisible. It is also a story of a collapse into extinction so startling as to provoke a mystery. In the fate of the North American passenger pigeon we can read much of the story of wild America—the astonishment that accompanied its discovery, the allure of its natural “productions” the ruthless exploitation of its “commodities” and the ultimate betrayal of its peculiar genius. And in the bird’s fate can be read, too, the essential vulnerability of species, the unpredictable passage of life itself.

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