Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific By Donald Kroodsma

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A birdsong expert's poignant and beautifully illustrated memoir of a bicycle journey across America with his sonJoin birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before. On remote country roads, over terrain vast and spectacular, from dawn to dusk and sometimes through the night, you will gain a deep appreciation for the natural symphony of birdsong many of us take for granted. Come along and marvel at how expressive these creatures are as Kroodsma leads you west across nearly five thousand miles—at a leisurely pace that enables a deep listen.Listening to a Continent Sing is also a guided tour through the history of a young nation and the geology of an ancient landscape, and an invitation to set aside the bustle of everyday life to follow one's dreams. It is a celebration of flowers and trees, rocks and rivers, mountains and prairies, clouds and sky, headwinds and calm, and of local voices and the people you will meet along the way. It is also the story of a father and son deepening their bond as they travel the slow road together from coast to coast.Beautifully illustrated throughout with drawings of birds and scenes and featuring QR codes that link to audio birdsong, this poignant and insightful book takes you on a travel adventure unlike any other—accompanied on every leg of your journey by birdsong.

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This book is well-made; exquisitely put together with deluxe paper, beautiful sketches, and almost 400 QR codes to access and listen to, of the birds that he recorded, which are also available on an accompanying website. I winced after finishing the book, though, to see that he dedicated the book to "the birds, and David." In that order. See, David was his adult son who accompanied him on this incredible cross-country bike trip, and the book oozes with the tension between the author and his son throughout the trip. Even the son comments about how much the birds mean to the author! This ruined the book for me, as I didn't like reading the author's denigrating remarks about his son. Periodically he'd make up for it by trying to admire something about his son and stating "Some kid!" which was repetitive and got a bit tiresome, as some sort of "make-up-for-what-I've-been-saying-about-you." And the birds - oh my! Yes, I appreciated the author's knowledge and love for these birds. And it took a lot of hard work to record these birds. But the book is a bit contrived, as he admits in the Acknowledgement at the front of the book that although the trip took place in 2003, he went back three times to record birds between 2008-10. He also had someone else recording birds. So although the narrative is supposedly he and his son's trip and listening to birds along the way, it's been a much larger and longer project overall. More importantly, he quit teaching when he finished this bike trip and wrote three books on birds prior to putting together this book for publication in 2016. Because his descriptions of birds in this book went on ... and on ... and on... I began to feel that this book was merely borrowing information from his prior three books on birds. Being a biker myself, I couldn't see how he and his son would be biking 50-100 miles a day and yet while on the bike, he'd share a paragraph's worth of explanation of one bird or another to his son (who had no interest in the birds whatsoever). He also spoke of his job at the university in negative tones throughout the book, even ending the last chapter with a vulgar word. Wow. I wondered what his son - and his coworkers - thought of what he said about them in this book. Last of all: while he was excellent on explaining the geology of each state he traveled in - and I tremendously enjoyed his time in Idaho/Oregon since I lived in that area for 34 years - he lost me on his continual mocking tone when noticing Christian influences in the communities within which he traveled. This is offensive to those of us who still hold that the Creator God did indeed create these precious birds. The author went on and on about it so much that I felt he must have been convicted of his loss of faith - which he finally admitted to, toward the end of the book, i.e., that he'd been raised in the Dutch Reform Church in Michigan. I wish I could talk to the author and tell him that I could tell that God was still not far from his mind, as he often spoke in biblical phrases such as describing a beautiful day as "heavenly." But the oddest quirk was when he spoke twice of hoping to return in his next life as a raven, which is an Eastern religious view of reincarnation. When all along he'd been proud of his "scientific" view of life, here he was believing in something that is one of the most unscientifically provable belief systems in the world! So I can only recommend this book provisionally, noting the negative comments about his son, his coworkers, and people who believe in a Creator God. And to remember that this book is a put-together project that probably includes material from his other three books, and took years of re-recording, so does not reflect quite truthfully on what happened on the actual 2003 road trip. And P.S. Why no map included?! I had to go online to find the path they were following from the 1976 Bicentennial trail.

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