1/8: Ten Birds That Changed the World Hardcover – by Stephen Moss (Author)
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Birds-That-Changed-World/dp/1541604466
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been inspired by them for our music, art, and poetry.
In Ten Birds That Changed the World, naturalist and author Stephen Moss tells the gripping story of this long and intimate relationship through key species from all seven of the world’s continents. From Odin’s faithful raven companions to Darwin’s finches, and from the wild turkey of the Americas to the emperor penguin as potent symbol of the climate crisis, this is a fascinating, eye-opening, and endlessly engaging work of natural history.
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| 0:40.4 | A wild turkey. |
| 0:42.0 | One of 10 birds featured in a new book I highly recommend for thanks giving |
| 0:46.5 | in any other time of the year. |
| 0:48.8 | 10 birds that change the world. |
| 0:51.2 | Stephen Moss is the author, a distinguished author, |
| 0:54.6 | an environmentalist, television producer for the BBC Natural History Unit, |
| 0:59.5 | and here to take us to the legend and the facts of the wild turkey. |
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