Curious Book of Birds

Curious Book of Birds is a classic birding guide/nature study by Abbie Farwell Brown. There are many bird guides written nowadays which will tell you about birds as folk of the twentieth century see them. They describe carefully the singer's house, his habits, the number of his little wife's eggs, and the color of every tiny feather on her pretty wings. But these books tell you nothing at all about bird history; about what birds have meant to all the generations of men, women, and children since the world began. This book does just that.