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Graeme Gibson CM FRCGS was a Canadian novelist.He was a Member of the Order of Canada (1992), a Senior Fellow of Massey College and one of the organizers of the Writers Union of Canada (chair, 1974-75). He was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. He died in 2019.
The most compulsively readable of a clutch of bird-themed books out this autumn. Taking in everything from classic nature-writing to poetry via folklore and Mayan creation myths, The Bedside Book Of Birds is by no means for 'twitchers' only * Daily Mail * The perfect book for armchair ornithologists with an eye for words as well as feathers * Daily Telegraph * A wonderful collection of poetry and prose, folk tales and myths, which pay tribute to our feathered friend ... A perfect Christmas present, even for non-anoraks * Mail on Sunday * Anyone who has watched birds, studied them, given them the least attention, will find this a treat. It is a compilation of writings that celebrate themany ways people have engaged with birds - made companions of them, mythologised them, hunted and eaten them. There's an account of a mocking thrush drinking from Charles Darwin's hand on the voyage of the Beagle, and of a woman in Ohio who incubated 50 hens' eggs by laying them alongside the body of her dying, fevered husband. This book is well worth buying for the illustrations alone * New Scientist *
