The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
&#x201C;A remarkable story.&#x201D; (Portland Press Herald)&#x201C;...beautifully written story of a man&#x2019;s efforts to reconstruct posthumously the life of his father...&#x201D; (Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse)&#x201C;...scientist and naturalist of the first rank and a nature writer of uncommon talent...&#x201D; (Edward O. Wilson)&#x201C;...amazing saga, full of twists and turns...his magnum opus...vividly descriptive...he has produced his best book ever...&#x201D; (Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy)&#x201C;...I couldn&#x2019;t leave its pages...it has joined the small collection of my most favorite book...&#x201D; (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, anthropologist and author of the bestseller The Hidden Life of Dogs)&#x201C;...extraordinary...a memoir of fun, daringness and intellectual curiosity, the heartwarming evolution of a modern biologist.&#x201D; (Jean Craighead George, award-winning author of Julie of the Wolves)&#x201C;...by one of the premier naturalists of our time...a splendid book, truly compelling, and bound to endure.&#x201D; (Thomas Eisner)&#x201C;Heinrich&#x2019;s stunning family saga...his magnum opus...vividly descriptive...he has produced his best book ever...&#x201D; (Alice Calaprice, award winning editor; author of the Quotable Einstein books, The Einstein Almanac, and Dear Professor Einstein)&#x201C;...You will not want to put it down...an engrossing and powerful narrative of human achievement...&#x201D; (Samuel W.F. Wolfgang, author of German Boy and The War of Our Childhood)&#x201C;One of the finest living examples of that strange hybrid: the science writer.&#x201D; (Los Angeles Times Book Review)&#x201C;Heinrich, who combines his keen scientific eye with the soul of a poet, enthralls.&#x201D; (New York Times Book Review)&#x201C;The Snoring Bird...show[s] readers why the work of an observant field biologist still matters.&#x201D; (Los Angeles Times Book Review)&#x201C;Arguably today&#x2019;s finest naturalist author...our latter-day Thoreau.&#x201D; (Publishers Weekly)&#x201C;Some of Heinrich&#x2019;s most lyrical writing...the future scientist as a footloose nature boy.&#x201D; (New York Times Book Review)&#x201C;...brilliant...there is in Heinrich&#x2019;s every page, wonderment.&#x201D; (San Francisco Chronicle)&#x201C;...splendid nature writing...a fascinating glimpse of the growth of one scientist&#x2019;s mind. Heartily recommended.&#x201D; (Library Journal)