Birds by the Shore by Jennifer Ackerman

Birds by the Shore by Jennifer Ackerman

From the bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, the revised and reissued edition of her beloved book of essays describing her forays along the Delaware shore

For three years, Jennifer Ackerman lived in the small coastal town of Lewes, Delaware, in the sort of blue-water, white-sand landscape that draws summer crowds up and down the eastern seaboard. Birds by the Shore is a book about discovering the natural life at the ocean's edge: the habits of shorebirds and seabirds, the movement of sand and water, the wealth of creatures that survive amid storm and surf. Against this landscape's rhythms, Ackerman revisits her own history--her mother's death, her father's illness and her hopes to have children of her own.

This portrait of life at the ocean's edge will be relished by anyone who has walked a beach at sunset, or watched a hawk hover over a winter marsh, and felt part of the natural world. With a quiet passion and friendly, generous intelligence, it explores the way that landscape shapes our thoughts and perceptions and shows that home ground is often where we feel the deepest response to the planet.

For than three decades, JENNIFER ACKERMAN has been writing about science, nature, and human biology. Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body; Ah-Choo: The Unusual Life of Your Common Cold; Chance in the Mansion of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity; and Notes from the Sea are among her most recent works. Ackerman has written for Scientific American, National Geographic, The New York Times, and many other magazines. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Fellowship, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant. The Sloan Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing

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ISBN 13	9780143134183
ISBN 10	0143134183
Title	Birds by the Shore
Author	Jennifer Ackerman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2019-05-07
Number of pages	224
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