Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America
by Karnicky, Jeff

Format: Hardcover
Code: 14673
Condition: New
Product Details
In Scarlet Experiment, Jeff Karnicky traces the ways in which birds have historically been seen as beautiful creatures worthy of protection and study and yet subject to experiments scientific, literary, and governmental that have irrevocably altered their relationship with humans. This examination of the management of bird life in America from the nineteenth century to today, which focuses on six bird species, finds that renderings of birds by such authors as Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Don DeLillo, and Christopher Cokinos, have also influenced public perceptions and actions. Scarlet Experiment speculates about the effects our decisions will have on the future of North American bird ecology.
ISBN: 9780803294981
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Year of Publication: 2016
Page Count: 221
Weight: 1 lb