The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology (P.S.)

"Arguably today's finest naturalist author...our latter-day Thoreau."--Publishers Weekly

"Heinrich's stunning family saga...his magnum opus...vividly descriptive...he has produced his best book ever..."--Alice Calaprice, award winning editor; author of the Quotable Einstein books, The Einstein Almanac, and Dear Professor Einstein

"The Snoring Bird...show[s] readers why the work of an observant field biologist still matters."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A remarkable story."--Portland Press Herald

"Some of Heinrich's most lyrical writing...the future scientist as a footloose nature boy."--New York Times Book Review

"Heinrich, who combines his keen scientific eye with the soul of a poet, enthralls."--New York Times Book Review

"One of the finest living examples of that strange hybrid: the science writer."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

..".amazing saga, full of twists and turns...his magnum opus...vividly descriptive...he has produced his best book ever..."--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy

..".I couldn't leave its pages...it has joined the small collection of my most favorite book..."--Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, anthropologist and author of the bestseller The Hidden Life of Dogs

..".beautifully written story of a man's efforts to reconstruct posthumously the life of his father..."--Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse

The best-selling author of Winter World traces the related stories of his father's life, his family's past, and the ways in which his own life has been shaped by the forces of nature and history, in a personal account that reveals his origins as an experimental biologist and naturalist. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.