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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Houghton Mifflin
Price: $25.00
Houghton Mifflin
Price: $24.00
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KENN KAUFMAN and TIM GALLAGHER discuss Flights Against the Sunset: Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son
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Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-First Century
Harvard Book Store is delighted to host leading ornithologists KENN KAUFMAN and TIM GALLAGHER to discuss their respective new books, which combine birding history, personal memoir, and travelogue. At age sixteen, KAUFMAN left home to travel the world in search of birds. Now a grown man and a renowned ornithologist, he has come back to visit his ailing mother and explain to her what drove his obsession with bird life. His explanation forms a series of interlocking tales from the frontier where the world of birds intersects with the world of the humans who pursue them. Flights Against the Sunset brings together nineteen essays, mostly adapted from Kaufman's long-running column in Bird Watcher's Digest. They weave an original story that examines how we communicate about our passions with those who do not share the same interests and how to celebrate the world of infinite possibilities and wonder. GALLAGHER mines his lifelong obsession with falcons for an answer in this engaging volume interweaving memoir, history, and travelogue. An entire subculture of the sport exists outside the mainstream of American society, consisting of obsessed individuals who still use the ancient training techniques and language of falconry. What salve to his spirit did falconry provide when it ignited his passion at age twelve? Beset by a turbulent childhood dominated by a brutal and violent father, Gallagher turned to this sport for emotional release. He offers us a unique glimpse into contemporary falconry, and the result is a surprisingly frank and revealing personal story.
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CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Thursday, May 22nd |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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KENN KAUFMAN is the originator of the Kaufman Field Guide series, which includes books on birds, butterflies, mammals, and insects. He has also written Lives of North American Birds, Kingbird Highway, and the Peterson Field Guide to Advanced Birding.
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During his work on The Grail Bird, TIM GALLAGHER was among the first to sight the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas, a bird long thought to be extinct. This led to a multimillion-dollar effort to confirm the sighting and protect the birds dwindling habitat. The sighting changed the direction of the book, for which Gallagher won the Outdoor Writers Association of Americas Best Book Award for 2005. Gallagher is editor-in-chief of Living Bird magazine and of the Journal of the North American Falconers Association. He resides in Freeville, New York.
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