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The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
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The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany Hardcover - 2021

by Graeme Gibson; Foreword by Margaret Atwood

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  • Title The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Nan A. Talese
  • Date 2021-03-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # J11E-00267
  • ISBN 9780385547130 / 0385547137
  • Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Human-animal relationships, Birds
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020053298
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598

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About the author

GRAEME GIBSON was born in London, Ontario, in 1934. He was the author of three novels, Five Legs (1969), Communion (1971) and Perpetual Motion (1982), and of two bedside companions, The Bedside Book of Birds (2005) and The Bedside Book of Beasts (2009). An important spokesman for Canadian cultural identity, Gibson was the initial organizer and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada, and was its chairman in 1976. He was also an organizer and founding member of the Writers' Trust, a non-profit organization, and was subsequently its chairman. From 1987 to 1989, he was president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN. In 1990, he won a Toronto Arts Award for writing and publishing, and, in 1992 he received the Order of Canada. Graeme Gibson died in September 2019.

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