BHAS Book Club
November 19 @ 5:30 pm-6:30 pm
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Tuesday, November 19th at 5:30 PM
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With both a pizza dinner and an amazing journal of art, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, behind us, it is now time to move ahead and dive into our next book: Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration, by Washington state author Rebecca Heisman.
Flight Paths tells the story of how bird-loving scientists worked together to uncover the secrets of bird migration. From the publisher:
“Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration—from where and when they take off to their flight paths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there. Uniting curious minds from across generations, continents, and disciplines, bird enthusiast and science writer Rebecca Heisman traces the development of each technique used for tracking migratory birds, from the first attempts to mark individual birds to the cutting-edge technology that lets ornithologists trace where a bird has been, based on unique DNA markers. Along the way, she touches on the biggest technological breakthroughs of modern science and reveals the almost-forgotten stories of the scientists who harnessed these inventions in service of furthering our understanding of nature (and their personal obsession with birds).”
We will be meeting to discuss this book in South Olympia at the home of one of our members. If you would like to attend, please email Rachel Hudson at lightningdash09@nullyahoo.com to RSVP and to receive the meeting address. Our discussion questions will be sent out to everyone a few days before our meeting. Our book club is meant to be stress-free, so no worries if you aren’t able to finish the book, or even if you are curious about whether or not you should start! You are more than welcome to hop on in, join the discussion, and learn more about our featured book.
Happy reading, everyone!