Conversations with Birds Kumar Priyanka
Conversations with Birds Kumar Priyanka "Birds are my almanac. Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. They tune me…
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Conversations with Birds Kumar Priyanka
"Birds are my almanac. Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself."So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar.
It was only in her twenties, living in Los Angeles and working on films, that she began to rediscover her place in the landscape--and in the cosmos--by way of watching birds.Tracing her movements across the American West, this stirring collection of essays brings the avian world richly to life. 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. Kumar's perspective is not that of a list keeper, counting and cataloguing species.
Rather, from the