MUSICAL MOMENTS IN A REPUBLIC OF TURMOIL: 5/8: Ten Birds That Changed the World Hardcover – by Stephen Moss (Author)
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 10 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.
1824 JOHN JAMES AUDOBON
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:05.9 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized |
| 0:10.2 | tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you |
| 0:27.1 | travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor. |
| 0:37.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:42.0 | Continuing with the author and producer, Stephen Moss, his new book is 10 birds that change the world. |
| 0:49.0 | And now we turn to a raven. |
| 0:51.0 | I have never seen a raven. I have crows in my life and I respect them. |
| 0:55.8 | A raven is much bigger. Also same cleverness, same intelligence, and the legends. |
| 1:03.7 | Stephen, a very good evening to you to continue with the Raven. |
| 1:07.7 | You've seen the Raven in the Tower of London. |
| 1:10.4 | I want to start there because that's part of my association. |
| 1:14.0 | The Tower of London, it's impossible to avoid it if you read English in American history. |
| 1:19.0 | The Raven is a very large bird and I take it it has something of the the aura of |
| 1:26.4 | mythology around him you've met a raven and he makes a strange sound so please explain how big and what the sound is and what you |
| 1:36.8 | thought when you met a raven. Ravens are like a crow on steroids. I mean |
| 1:42.0 | they're considerably bigger. They're about the same size as a |
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