The Wingless Crow - Couverture souple

Fergus, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0271033037 ISBN 13 : 9780271033037

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Wingless Crow joins together thirty-three superb short essays on nature, science, country living, and self. They are written by a man who-watchful, inquisitive, at times prickly-is animated by delight, wonder, and love for the rural places and wildlife of Pennsylvania.Charles Fergus wrote these insightful pieces for his monthly column, "Thornapples," which ran in Pennsylvania Game News magazine from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. They are based on many hours spent hiking, skiing, botanizing, and observing wild creatures, as well as trips to libraries and hours spent with books, teasing out information about the objects of his interest. The writing is simple and vivid, rendered dramatic through the delivery of carefully chosen details. Fergus scrutinizes a captured dragonfly and sees "a bubble of a hide through which organs glimmer." He recalls a night in a tent when lightning shook the ground. He tells about topographic maps and deerflies and auctions and poisonous mushrooms and crows.Propelled by an unrelenting curiosity, a wry sense of humor, and the tough heart of a born curmudgeon, Fergus is astonished at how little he sees at first-and how much, with care and dedication, there is to see. Readers will delight in his observations of and insights into the everyday life, both human and wild, animating the wooded mountains and farmed valleys of the author's central Pennsylvania home."Charles Fergus is a watcher, a listener. That he thinks of nature as gift, and that he wants us to share his enthusiasm, is communicated on every page. . . . He possesses a child's Sense of wonder, an adult's ability to assemble matter into perspective, and a craftsmanlike prose that has rendered it all into a very fine book." -James Kaufmann, Christian Science Monitor

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Charles Fergus is the author of seventeen books, most of them about nature and the outdoors. He was born in central Pennsylvania and lived there for many years before moving, in 2003, to a small hill-country farm in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271033037
• ISBN 13: 9780271033037
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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