Winging Home : A Palette Of Birds
(2011)

Nonfiction

eBook

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : TouchWood Editions, 2011
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1 online resource (256 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9781926972251 MWT18916131, 1926972252 18916131
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

In British Columbia's remote and exotic Cariboo Plateau, "Everything is slow. Everything is happening at the same speed, which is no speed at all." Harold Rhenisch has spent eleven years watching birds every day from his house on the shore of 108 Lake-at this speed, but you wouldn't know it from reading Winging Home. Known as "one of Canada's master prose stylists," Rhenisch dissects avian behaviour with the ear of a poet and the mouth of a standup comedian. His blackbirds are a jug band in full flight, his robins drunken bachelors on a jag, and his eagles decrepit, stumblebum scavengers. With lively illustrations by noted bird artist Tom Godin, Winging Home: A Palette of Birds is more than just writing about the natural world. It is a lyrical, evocative memoir of life in the Cariboo that crackles with humorous, often startling observations of birds and men set amidst the wild beauty of British Columbia. In British Columbia's remote and exotic Cariboo Plateau, &quotEverything is slow. Everything is happening at the same speed, which is no speed at all.&quot Harold Rhenisch has spent eleven years watching birds every day from his house on the shore of 108 Lake-at this speed, but you wouldn't know it from reading Winging Home. Known as &quotone of Canada's master prose stylists,&quot Rhenisch dissects avian behaviour with the ear of a poet and the mouth of a standup comedian. His blackbirds are a jug band in full flight, his robins drunken bachelors on a jag, and his eagles decrepit, stumblebum scavengers. With lively illustrations by noted bird artist Tom Godin, Winging Home: A Palette of Birds is more than just writing about the natural world. It is a lyrical, evocative memoir of life in the Cariboo that crackles with humorous, often startling observations of birds and men set amidst the wild beauty of British Columbia

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