Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid Street, Eugene, OR
Please join us for a reading, discussion, signing and reception with UO Alum John Wilson Foster.
"Every page of this book is lit by a sense of wonder." --Michael Longley
Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons
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 of a collapse into extinction so startling 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.
"John Wilson Foster's new book is a gem in every sense: small but perfect in the hand, elegantly written and full of evocative, deeply researched interest, both in the bird and American social history." --Michael Viney, The Irish Times
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