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Title: The Verb To Bird by Peter Cashwell, Grant Silverstein ISBN: 1-58988-001-3 Publisher: Paul Dry Books Inc Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Verb implies action and it is missing in this book.
Comment: Peter Cashwell never really captures the spirt and pleasure of birding in "The Verb to Bird". The book is more of a forced literary exercise than a story about birds, birding or anything else. A collection of anecdotes related to the author's occasional hobby, the stories are not compelling nor do they capture the imagination. Cashwell's fascination with the mundane is illustrated by his search for the origin of the name Cardinal. He is surprised when he finds the bird was first named by Spanish, Portugese, and French explorers as he is chauvinistic enough to think Anglo Saxon settlers were the first to see this bird in North America. Following the the tale of his discovery leads to some very boring reading, as is the case with the whole book. In the end I had to work hard to finish this book even though birding is a passion in my life.
I would not reccommend this book except as an example of how a person with excellent literary credentials can take an intersting subject and make it quite boring. Perhaps if Cashwell would work more on building his birding skills he would be able to write better on the subject.
Sorry for the bad review. As Sandy Komito said: "In birding integrity is like virginity, you can only lose it once."
Rating: 5
Summary: A Splendid Book for Birders and for Fans English
Comment: Peter Cashwell, an English teacher, has written a graceful book that discusses birding in a light-hearted manner. It will delight those of us who love birds and those of us who love the English language. I often laughed out loud at the various situations Cashwell creates for himself in the pursuit of birds. After reading it, I felt inspired to look at the visitors to my backyard far more closely.
Rating: 2
Summary: Bland and unsophisticated
Comment: Peter Cashwell seems a bright and pleasant fellow, and I'm delighted that he has taken up birding. But the essays in this volume, charming as a sentence or thought can be here and there, do not sustain the interest of a reader interested in either birding or good writing. Cashwell's ornithology is shaky, and there are just too many places (the maudlin Christmas Eve story, or the unnecessarily protracted account of his library work on the name 'cardinal') that his tone flags into the mundane.
For real thoughtfulness, turn to Levine's Lifebirds, a title that has never got the press it deserves--and one of my favorite birding books of all time.
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Title: The Big Year : A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik ISBN: 0743245458 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Gardener's Bed-Book : Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things by RICHARDSON WRIGHT, DOMINIQUE BROWNING ISBN: 0812968735 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Pete Dunne on Bird Watching : The How-to, Where-to, and When-to of Birding by Pete Dunne ISBN: 0395906865 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 21 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Polar Bear Waltz and Other Moments of Epic Silliness: Comic Classics from Outside Magazine's "Parting Shots" (Outside Books) by Outside Magazine ISBN: 0393323986 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Golden Wings and Other Stories about Birders and Birding by Pete Dunne ISBN: 0292716230 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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