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What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
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Carl Safina
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Carl Safina
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When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be a temporary presence. But Alfie's feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. As Alfie grew and gained strength, she became a part of the family, joining a menagerie of dogs and chickens and making a home for herself in the backyard.
Alfie & Me is the story of the remarkable impact this little owl would have on their lives. The continuing bond of trust following her freedom—and her raising of her own wild brood—coincided with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a year in which Carl and Patricia were forced to spend time at home without the normal obligations of work and travel. Witnessing all the fine details of their feathered friend's life offered Carl and Patricia a view of existence from Alfie's perspective.
One can travel the world and go nowhere; one can be stuck keeping the faith at home and discover a new world. Safina's relationship with an owl made him want to better understand how people have viewed humanity's relationship with nature across cultures and throughout history. Interwoven with Safina's keen observations, insight, and reflections, Alfie & Me is a work of profound beauties and magical timing harbored within one upended year.
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Appreciated the engineering details
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The Butchering Art
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In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters - no place for the squeamish - and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. They were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. A young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history.
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Not one boring moment!
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Cosmic Queries
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In this illuminating audiobook, Tyson and coauthor James Trefil, a renowned physicist and science popularizer, take on the big questions that humanity has been posing for millennia - How did life begin? What is our place in the universe? Are we alone? - and provide answers based on the most current data, observations, and theories.
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Not worth it
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The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks. For 12 years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it.
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Depressing from Cover to Cover
- By Drew (@drewsant) on 04-13-15
By: Andrea Lankford
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- Kaysi12
- 02-16-24
One of the very best
I have always enjoyed writings by Carl Safina, who I think is one of the very best nature writers of all time, and to me this was one of the best of his works.
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- T. Harrison
- 05-26-24
Who Knew?!
I am abundantly grateful for Carl Safina's compassion for all life and the delightful, insightful, and engaging ways he's shares about the living world for which he so deeply cares.
This book is especially touching, as we too are blessed by (currently) resident owls in the trees that stand directly adjacent to our home. The owls truly feel like family. To be clear, the feeling is of family at its very best - all resonant with one another in comforting, familial love.
I also appreciate the wonderful ways that Carl reminds of and teaches about how many of us modern humans lost our awareness of our interconnectedness with nature - and ways we can restore our compassion for Mother Earth and all of life.
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- Marylin Angeloff
- 07-06-24
Loved the Author’s Kindness and knowlege.
Great story. I enjoyed the way the author qualified his beliefs by bringing knowledge into the discussion to support them. I have a little guilt right now though. It’s 114 outside and the air conditioner is set at 86. I did hang out my laundry today though. I think we could all do more to help Mother Earth. I believe stories like this help to raise awareness. I’m glad the heroine …don’t want to give away the ending❤️
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- cb free
- 06-26-24
A must read
Never imagined an owl would be the antidote to covid and how to better exist in the world. Thank you, Allie.
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- Mary Lane
- 05-09-24
Our need to recognize our interconnectedness with all of nature
The author's story of the owls and our need to see differently our relationship with all of nature was compelling.
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- Chicken Grandma
- 06-14-24
What was author's main focusing?
Dislike--- too much time explaining history and referencing other authors and their theories. Owl was minor character.
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- P. Duke
- 06-10-24
Wide ranging
If one has never had survey exposure to wisdom literature, world religions, ecology, cosmology, and almost every other subject, this is your read.
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- Heidi
- 07-05-24
Wonderful!
This book was so much more than I thought it would be. I’m glad I took a chance when it appeared in books recommended for me. No spoilers - just listen to it.
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- Katherine
- 06-28-24
Loved it!
I loved the book. I loved the story of the owl, Alfie. I learned a lot from Safina’s History lesson on the famous philosophers, and I thought his narration was great. I appreciated his thoughts on life and the environment.
It was a wonderful audio book.
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- SSK
- 07-26-24
Interesting owl info
More philosophy than I was prepared to read. The story of the little owl was very enjoyable.
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