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First Tuesday Book Club

  • Snow Library 67 Main Street Orleans, MA United States (map)

Join our First Tuesday Book Club for a discussion of Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss. We’ll meet in the Cape Cod Room. Copies are available at the front desk.

From the dust jacket:

"For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been inspired by them for our music, art, and poetry. In Ten Birds That Changed the World, naturalist and author Stephen Moss tells the gripping story of this long and intimate relationship through key species from all seven of the world's continents. From Odin's faithful raven companions to Darwin's finches, and from the wild turkey of the Americas to the emperor penguin as potent symbol of the climate crisis, this is a fascinating, eye-opening, and endlessly engaging work of natural history.”