I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird: A Daughter's Memoir - Couverture souple

Cerulean, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820362565 ISBN 13 : 9780820362564

Editeur : Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books, 2022

Synopsis

Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

SUSAN CERULEAN is a writer, naturalist, and advocate based in Tallahassee, Florida. She has written and edited many books, including gold medal Florida Book Award winner Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change, and her nature memoir, Tracking Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites (both Georgia), that was named and Editor's Choice title by Audubon magazine. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird: A Daughter's Memoir (also Georgia) is her most recent work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820362565
• ISBN 13: 9780820362564
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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