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Title details for Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder by Julia Zarankin - Available

Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder

A Memoir

by Julia Zarankin
Nan McNamara
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When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn't expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled into birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes, and discuss the finer points of optics with disturbing fervour. What she never could have predicted was that she would become one of them. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder follows the peregrinations of a narrator who learns more from birds than she ever anticipated, finding new meaning in midlife. Coming from a Russian immigrant family of concert pianists who believed that the outdoors were for "other people," she recounts the challenges and joys of unexpectedly discovering one's wild side and finding one's tribe in the unlikeliest of places. Not only does she come to identify proudly as a birder, but birding ultimately leads her to find love, uncover a new language, and lay down roots. Her thoughtful and witty observations about that journey illuminate the joyful experience of discovery and offer keen insight into what it takes to find one's place in the world.

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    January 5, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781666545845
      • File size: 197614 KB
      • Duration: 06:51:41

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Nan McNamara brings an enthusiastic and relatable voice to this fun and fulfilling story of discovering birding. She expresses the author's transformation with the zeal of someone whose new hobby has taken over her every thought. Effervescent tones and buoyant pacing bring listeners into this new source of rapture in Zarankin's life. Growing up in a family of music enthusiasts, she is no stranger to serious hobbies. Then in her 40s, she finds her "spark" bird, a red-winged blackbird. Changing her life's pattern of perfectionism, birding helps Zarankin accept life's failures, as well the beauty that abounds in her life. McNamara's joyful tone enhances the positive turn the author takes in her testament to living well. S.K.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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