num_pages: 384
description: An award-winning nature writer weaves natural history and personal experience into the dramatic story of the last days of six North American bird species. With a compelling blend of science, history, politics, and memoir, Cokino draws on unpublished photographs and documents to make these long-vanished birds come alive.
language: English
title: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
titlecomplete: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
genres: Biology, Ecology, Animals, Science, Birds, Nature, Natural History, Nonfiction, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 416
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award
publisher: Grand Central Publishing