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The Wingless Crow joins together thirty-three superb short essays on nature, science, country living, and self. They are written by a man whowatchful, inquisitive, at times pricklyis animated by delight, wonder, and love for the rural places and wildlife of Pennsylvania. Charles Fergus wrote these insightful pieces for his monthly column, "Thornapples," which ran in Pennsylvania Game News magazine from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. They are based on many hours spent hiking, skiing, botanizing, and observing wild creatures, as well as trips to libraries and hours spent with books, teasing out information about the objects of his interest. The writing is simple and vivid, rendered dramatic through the delivery of carefully chosen details. Fergus scrutinizes a captured dragonfly and sees "a bubble of a hide through which organs glimmer." He recalls a night in a tent when lightning shook the ground. He tells about topographic maps and deerflies and auctions.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Natural history

• Full title: Wingless Crow
• Author: Charles Fergus
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170
• EAN: 9780271033037
• ISBN: 0271033037
• ID: 04564338
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Weight: 286 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. September 2007

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