Hobnobbing With the Birds (A historical account of birdwatching and feathered friendship in Prince Edward County)
| Expected release date is May 11th 2027 |
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Product Details
Overview
Part historical artifact and part whimsical field guide to Prince Edward County’s birds, for people who enjoyed Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles.
Written over a hundred years ago, Hobnobbing with the Birds is a series of written sketches by Anna May Stone of the nesting birds observed visiting her garden on Schoharie Road, just north of Bloomfield, Ontario.
Brimming with enthusiasm and creativity and wit—we meet Mr. and Mrs. Robin, Sir Christopher the wren, and gossipy Mrs. Goldy (the goldfinch), among others—the pieces are arranged according to their seasonal arrival times, demonstrating Anna May Stone’s keen eye for detail and marking this as a historically accurate contribution to birding literature at turn of the twentieth century.
Anna May’s strong voice is punctuated by epigraphs from the likes of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Sylvia Lynd, Archibald Lampman, Alexander Pope, and Percy Bysshe Shelley and amplified by pen-and-ink illustrations by mixed-media artist Tim Snyder.
