David Gessner

The Book of Flaco (eBook, ePUB)

The World's Most Famous Bird

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• This story was an international sensation, sparking obsessive birdwatching in Central Park and millions following onlinea source of joy, inspiration, and heartbreak.
• Publishing on the one-year anniversary of Flaco's death: A year after his escape from Central Park Zoo, Flaco died in February 2024, an event that rocked birding and environmental groups but also the general public, for whom Flaco had become a celebrity, a symbol.
• Echoes messages from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: Flaco's story is a reminder that our pest control, fertilizers, and waste management methods all negatively impact the flora and fauna of an environment.
• For fans of H is for Hawk, Netflix's My Octopus Teacher, Terry Tempest Williams, Sy Montgomery's The Soul of an Octopus, and Jennifer Ackerman's What the Owl Knows.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blair
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781958888483
• Artikelnr.: 72348931

Autorenporträt

David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including the New York Times bestselling All the Wild That Remains. Gessner is a professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he also founded the literary magazine Ecotone. His own magazine publications include pieces in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Orion, and many other magazines. In 2017 he hosted the National Geographic Explorer show The Call of the Wild.

Inhaltsangabe

An Afterword Before
1. The Escape
2. Followers
3. Evolution
4. Visitation
5. A Walk in the Park
6. The Virtual Bird
7. The Passion of Anke
8. West Side Story
9. Legacy: Flaco Lives!
Epilogue: Beyond Flaco