PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Professor of biological and agricultural engineering at Louisiana State University, Marybeth Lima is author of Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities: Creating Safe and Happy Places for Children and coauthor of Play On! Evidence-based Playground Activities and Service-Learning: Engineering in Your Community.
A story of the healing power of birds in the face of life's great challenges is told here in beautiful and heart-wrenching details. Whether you are a bird watcher or not, this captivating story of an emotional journey of love and loss makes us each remember our own vulnerability in this world. It also reminds us of why birds matter, and how a life of bird watching can provide balance, perspective, and new challenges when things get tough.--Erik I. Johnson, Ph.D., National Audubon Society What makes this book stand out is the author's experience with the universal themes of hardship and loss, and her reliance on birding to cope. . . . She helps us all remember that birding really is a saving grace.--Birder's Digest Breezy but not lightweight, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder is a perfect bedside companion--or just the right thing to dip into as you wait for the next flock to fly by.--Country Roads Magazine Lima walks the line between two drives: the desire to beat her own (and, she hopes, someone else's) record, and the need to find emotional succor in nature. . . . Lima's delineation of how modern birding fits into modern life--as antidote to pressure or distress--is gripping. The engine that drives her second Big Year, which was beset by tragedy, is the same hum, almost an Om, that we heard before: one more, one more, one more.--Wall Street Journal
