| Descript |
293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Nonfiction. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-280) and index. |
| Contents |
Thinking about birds -- Bones, stones, mounds, and magic -- Sun Kings, shamans, and thunderbirds -- The Great Spirit has blessed them -- Missionaries, monsters, and miracles -- Soldiers, statesmen, and science -- Fledgling ornithologists -- Ahonques, timber-doodles, and shitquicks -- Feathers, fetishes, and fables -- The Great Exterimination -- Thinking about people. |
| Summary |
"Taking Flight explores how and why people in the nation's heartland worshipped, feared, studied, hunted, ate, and protected the birds that surrounded them. From ancient American Indian shamans to Renaissance explorers, and from frontier market hunters to modern conservationists, our ancestors thought about birds differently than we do, and acted differently toward them"-- Back cover. |
| Subject |
Birds -- Middle West -- History.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
0870208365 |
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9780870208362 |
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