# Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts - Hardcover

by **J. Drew Lanham** (Author)

"You are a rare bird, easy to see but invisible just the same." That thought is close at hand in _Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts_, as renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild in a mixture of poetry and prose. He questions vital assumptions taken for granted by so many birdwatchers: can birding be an escape if the birder is not in a safe place? Who is watching him as he watches birds?

With a refreshing balance of reverence and candor, Lanham paints a unique portrait of the natural world: listening to cicadas, tracking sandpipers, towhees, wrens, and cataloging fellow birdwatchers at a conference where he is one of two black birders. The resulting insights are as honest as they are illuminating.

### Author Biography

J. Drew Lanham is the author of _The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature_. He is a birder, naturalist, hunter-conservationist, and an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University. He lives in Seneca, South Carolina.

**Number of Pages:** 104

**Dimensions:** 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** April 20, 2021

## Details

- **Price:** 17.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books by splitShops, Shopify Collective

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