The Wingless Crow by Charles Fergus
Joins together thirty-three short essays on nature, science, country living, and self. Based on hours spent hiking, skiing, botanizing, and observing wild creatures, this work features insightful pieces that the author wrote for his monthly column, Thornapples, which ran in Pennsylvania Game News magazine from the late 1970s until early 1990s.-
Field Guide to Grasses of the Mid-Atlantic
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Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic
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An Uncommon Woman
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This Is Penn State
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Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers
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Edible Wild Plants of Pennsylvania and Neighboring States
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Fighter’s Heaven
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Rooted in Excellence
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A Deck of Monsters
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The Schenley Experiment
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A Capitol Journey
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Survive
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Making Iron on the Bald Eagle
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The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania
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The Perfect Season
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Better in the Poconos
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A Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar
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Terror World
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David Franks
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At Work in Penn's Woods
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From Memory to Memorial
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Pennsylvania Government and Politics
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Set Up Running
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Pennsylvania
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The New Face of Small-Town America
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Thrill Ride
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Keystone Poetry
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The War Against Tuberculosis
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Valley Forge
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Dapper Dan Flood
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Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
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The Best Places You've Never Seen
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Space Games
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Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh
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Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake
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The Body and the Book
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The Ghost Dog
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Times of Sorrow and Hope
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Common Wealth
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Space Pirates
“Charles Fergus is a watcher, a listenerThat he thinks of nature as a 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
“Charles Fergus knows how to keep a reader’s interest in all that is wild and wonderful with this collection of short, lyrical essays on nature, country living and the hunting life.”
—Marcia Bonta, Tyrone, PA, author of Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania and More Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania both published by Penn State Press
“The Wingless Crow is a wise and heartfelt book, with just as much relevance today as when these essays were first written. The word ‘classic’ is overused, but in this case, it’s the only one that fits.”
—Scott Weidensaul, Schuylkill Haven, PA, Author of Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul (2005) and Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds (1999)
“The Wingless Crow is a collection of nature-related essays that brilliantly blend woodland lore with wisdom, anecdotes, philosophy, humor and much more. Each page offers fresh surprises. If you are not a nature lover now, you most likely will be after reading this delightful book.”
—Bill Russell, author of Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic published by Penn State Press
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271033037 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271033037 |
| Title | The Wingless Crow |
| Author | Charles Fergus |
| Series | Keystone Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2007-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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