The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology - Hardcover
The best-selling author of Winter World traces the related stories of his father's life, his family's past, and the ways in which his own life was shaped by the forces of nature and history, in a personal account that reveals his origins as an experimental biologist and naturalist. 40,000 first printing.
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"A remarkable story." -- Portland Press Herald
"Arguably today's finest naturalist author...our latter-day Thoreau."--Publishers Weekly
."..by one of the premier naturalists of our time...a splendid book, truly compelling, and bound to endure."--Thomas Eisner
."..extraordinary...a memoir of fun, daringness and intellectual curiosity, the heartwarming evolution of a modern biologist."--Jean Craighead George, award-winning author of Julie of the Wolves
."..beautifully written story of a man's efforts to reconstruct posthumously the life of his father..."--Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse
"Heinrich's stunning family saga...his magnum opus...vividly descriptive...he has produced his best book ever..."--Alice Calaprice, award winning editor; author of the Quotable Einstein books, The Einstein Almanac, and Dear Professor Einstein
."..splendid nature writing...a fascinating glimpse of the growth of one scientist's mind. Heartily recommended."--Library Journal
"The Snoring Bird...show[s] readers why the work of an observant field biologist still matters."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
."..brilliant...there is in Heinrich's every page, wonderment."--San Francisco Chronicle
"A remarkable story."--Portland Press Herald
About the Author:
"Arguably today's finest naturalist author...our latter-day Thoreau."--Publishers Weekly
."..by one of the premier naturalists of our time...a splendid book, truly compelling, and bound to endure."--Thomas Eisner
."..extraordinary...a memoir of fun, daringness and intellectual curiosity, the heartwarming evolution of a modern biologist."--Jean Craighead George, award-winning author of Julie of the Wolves
."..beautifully written story of a man's efforts to reconstruct posthumously the life of his father..."--Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse
"Heinrich's stunning family saga...his magnum opus...vividly descriptive...he has produced his best book ever..."--Alice Calaprice, award winning editor; author of the Quotable Einstein books, The Einstein Almanac, and Dear Professor Einstein
."..splendid nature writing...a fascinating glimpse of the growth of one scientist's mind. Heartily recommended."--Library Journal
"The Snoring Bird...show[s] readers why the work of an observant field biologist still matters."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
."..brilliant...there is in Heinrich's every page, wonderment."--San Francisco Chronicle
"A remarkable story."--Portland Press Herald
The author of numerous bestselling and award-winning books, Bernd Heinrich is a professor of biology at the University of Vermont. He divides his time between Vermont and the forests of western Maine.
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- PublisherEcco Pr
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0060742151
- ISBN 13 9780060742157
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