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Wingspan: Living With Birds, Lauren A. Smith
Wingspan: Living With Birds, Lauren A. Smith
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Wingspan: Living with Birds is a collection of creative nonfiction essays that intertwine the author’s personal experiences and reflections with her knowledge of the natural world and ornithology. The six essays explore themes of family, self-reflection, understanding a sense of place, rock climbing, and dealing with grief. These themes are combined with natural histories of different bird species and the author’s experiences working with birds, especially as a bird bander.
Close Call With Nonexistence: A Memoir, Jeff Gailus
Close Call With Nonexistence: A Memoir, Jeff Gailus
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Fred Eduard Gailus was born on April 26, 1944, in Memelland, a place that no longer exists. It was a tiny sliver of Germandom on the far eastern edge of Hitler’s outsized German Reich. When the Soviet Red Army swept through on their way to Berlin, to end World War Two and the reign of terror perpetrated by the German people, the homeland of my father’s ancestors was wiped off the map forever. Thanks to the courage and tenacity of his mother, Fred survived the largest forced migration in human history to marry young and raise a family of four …