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Joel Greenberg is a research associate of the the Field Museum and the Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. The author of three books, including A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg helped spearhead Project Passenger Pigeon to focus attention on human-caused extinctions. He lives in Westmont, Illinois. Visit his blog at Birdzilla.com.
The first major work in sixty years about the most famous extinct species since the dodo ... equal parts natural history, elegy, and environmental outcry ... Answering even basic questions about the passenger pigeon requires a sort of forensic ornithology, which gives FEATHERED RIVER ACROSS THE SKY an unexpected poignancy at the very points where it is most nature-nerdy. New Yorker Joel Greenberg has done prodigious research into the literature of the passenger pigeon and lays much of it out in this book. For that effort, all who care about the living world owe him a debt of gratitude. Wall Street Journal A brilliant, important, haunting and poignant book, A FEATHERED RIVER ACROSS THE SKY ... will forever change the way in which you think of pigeons (all birds, really) and about the natural world. Chicago Tribune In calm, measured prose, [A FEATHERED RIVER ACROSS THE SKY is] a story of unremitting, wanton, continental-scale destruction. New York Review of Books
