Bird Erik Anderson by Erik Anderson 9781501353352, 9781501353383, 1501353357, 1501353381 instant download after payment.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. But Erik Anderson regards our obsession with birds as too sentimental, too precious or romantic. Birds don’t express hope. They express themselves. But this tension between the various versions of nature that lodge in our minds and the realities that surround us is the central concern of Bird. Anderson investigates our natural and metaphorical affinity for avifauna--our desire to confer on birds, as objects, human qualities like hope.
Bird investigates our affinity for flying things, but it is no field guide. It’s something far quirkier and more idiosyncratic, balancing science with story, anatomy with metaphor, habitat with history. Erik Anderson illuminates the dark underbelly of our bird fetish and offers a fresh, alternative vision of one of nature’s most beloved objects.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic