“A fascinating book about the most remarkable-andīeautiful-of all avian evolutionary adaptations, with wonderful accounts of Shows, they allow not only birds but the human imagination to take flight.” Insulation, engineering, archaeology and fashion. Hanson reminds us, teach a remarkable amount about evolution, is gracious, funny, persuasive and wide ranging.įeathers, Mr. Feathers is an earthbound book, but this does not keep theĪuthor-or the reader-from looking up in wonder.”
Hanson knows it isn’t just the bird at the far end of theīinoculars but the human being at the near end that matters, and he is writingĪs much about the human urge to understand, appreciate and appropriate the wild world as he is writing about feathers, which he calls, in his subtitle, a “ has produced a winning book about theĮxtraordinary place of feathers in animal and human history…. Hanson’s unpretentious style makes what is essentially an excellent scientific work into an enjoyable read for the ignorant and uninitiated….an illuminating study of an evolutionary marvel.” With infectious enthusiasm, he describes them, from their earliest known incarnations to their place in the modern world…. “Thor Hanson’s new book takes on the intriguing subject ofįeathers.
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