Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

Name: Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons
Brand: Notting Hill Editions
SKU: 9781907903656
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By (author): John Wilson Foster

This is a story of a scarcely credible abundance, of flocks of birds so vast they made the sky invisible. It is also a story, almost as difficult to credit, of a collapse into extinction so startling to the inhabitants of the New World as to provoke a mystery. In the fate of the North American passenger pigeon we can read much of the story of wild America - the astonishment that accompanied its discovery, the allure of its natural 'productions', the ruthless exploitation of its 'commodities' and the ultimate betrayal of its peculiar genius. And in the bird's fate can be read, too, the essential vulnerability of species, the unpredictable passage of life itself. See more

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Weight: 278g
Dimensions: 120 x 190mm
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2014
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781907903656

About John Wilson Foster

John Wilson Foster was born and educated in Belfast. He won a scholarship to Queen's University where he read social anthropology zoology English and philosophy. As a postgraduate he studied aesthetics under the philosopher W.B. Gallie and the poet and critic Philip Hobsbaum. He won a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Oregon where he completed a Ph.D. in Irish literature. From 1974 until 2002 he was Professor of English at the University of British Columbia of which he is now professor emeritus. In 2001 he was National University of Ireland Professor at NUI Maynooth. After early retirement he was a Leverhulme visiting professor to the U.K. visiting professor at the University of Toronto and visiting fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway.