Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775), Science & Nature, Nature, Animals, Science, Biological Sciences
Cover of the book Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons by John Wilson Foster, New York Review Books
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Author: John Wilson Foster ISBN: 9781910749333
Publisher: New York Review Books Publication: October 10, 2017
Imprint: Notting Hill Editions Language: English
Author: John Wilson Foster
ISBN: 9781910749333
Publisher: New York Review Books
Publication: October 10, 2017
Imprint: Notting Hill Editions
Language: English

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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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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