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Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself.So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar. Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. After moving to North America as a teenager, she found herself increasingly distanced from more than human life and discouraged by the civilization she saw contributing to its destruction. It was only in her twenties, living in Los Angeles and working on films, that she began to rediscover her place in the landscapeand in the cosmosby way of watching birds.Tracing her movements across the American West, this stirring collection of essays brings the avian world richly to life. Kumars perspective is not that of a list keeper, counting and cataloguing species. Rather, from the mangocolored western tanager that rescues her from a bout of altitude sickness in Sequoia National Park to ancient sandhill cranes in the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, and from the snowy plovers building shallow nests with bits of shell and grass to the whitebreasted nuthatch that regularly visits the apricot tree behind her familys casita in Santa Fe, for Kumar, birds become a portal to a more vivid, enchanted world.At a time when climate change, habitat loss, and the reckless use of pesticides are causing widespread extinction of species, Kumars reflections on these messengers from our distant past and harbingers of our future offer luminous evidence of her suggestion that seeds of transformation lie dormant in all of our hearts. Sometimes it just takes the right bird to awaken us.
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