Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Robert Michael Pyle, author of Wintergreen and Mariposa Road“Feathers is simply a splendid book! Even for one  biased toward butterfly scales, their closest competitors in the animal raiment  line, feathers in all their glory can only be seen as astonishing. With elegance  and wit, Thor Hanson captures not only their awesome esthetics, but also the  astonishing evolution, historical and cultural impact, and sheer wonder of avian  plumage. Rendered in exquisite detail with delicate touch, like a  feather-painting of old, this is the best kind of natural history—quilled by a  real field biologist who is also a fine writer.”