Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
by Christian Cooper
Memoir. Family. History. Travels. Current Events. and Marvel Comics back in the day when Marvel Comics was a thing--hurray!
Listen to the audiobook if you can, because he starts each chapter with a minute of bird
song appropriate to the text. I recognized very few of them (sadly!)
One thing I found hilarious--toward the end he goes to Alabama and is hoping to see a scissortail and a painted bunting. Both of which I've seen hundreds of, so much that I find them a little mundane and seldom go to the to trouble to pull up my binoculars for. (Which is stupid--they're both gorgeous) But, on the other hand, there are lots and lots of northeastern warblers that he knows intimately. And I'm still waiting for that first look at!
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