Bibliograph

Conversations with birds, Priyanka Kumar

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Label

Conversations with birds, Priyanka Kumar

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Conversations with birds

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1292589626

Responsibility statement

Priyanka Kumar

Summary

""Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself." So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar"--, Provided by publisherAs a teenagers, Kumar's family moved from the feet of the Himalayas in northern India to North America. She found herself discouraged by the civilization that she saw contributing to the destruction of nature, and the lives it contained. She began to rediscover her place in the landscape-- and in the cosmos-- by way of watching birds. In these essays, Kumar reflects on the avian world, and how climate change, habitat loss, and the reckless use of pesticides are causing wide-spread extinction of species. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Mango-colored bird -- A zen monk at work -- The rasa of bulbuls -- A flicker of light -- The fruit orchard -- Le petit nuthatch -- Interlude: Western tanager -- The bobcat in my rosebed -- The mystery dimension -- Messengers from the past -- Damsels floating in air -- Crepuscular activities -- Prairie dog town -- Pedernal mountain -- La jornada del muerto -- Lifting the veil -- Desert breeding grounds -- Mi casita -- The mountain lion of birds -- Clifftop

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