Pigeons
The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird
Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated since the dawn of man, they've been used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives. Charles Darwin relied heavily on pigeons to help formulate and support his theory of evolution. Yet today they are reviled as rats with wings.” Author Andrew D. Blechman traveled across the United States and Europe to meet with pigeon fanciers and pigeon haters in a quest to find out how we came to misunderstand one of mankind's most helpful and stead…
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- ISBN: 978-1-55584-600-8
- EAN: 9781555846008
- Produktnummer: 31920336
- Verlag: Grove Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Andrew D. Blechman is the author Leisureville: Adventures in a World Without Children and Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune. He divides his time between Massachusetts and Germany.
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