Dr. Thor Hanson is a conservation biologist, Switzer Environmental Fellow, and member of the Human Ecosystems Study Group. His first book, The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda, won the 2008 USA Book News Award for nature writing. Hanson lives with his wife and son on an island in the Pacific Northwest.
“A fascinating book about the most remarkable—and beautiful—of all avian evolutionary adaptations, with wonderful accounts of ornithological investigations and the solving of biological quandaries and questions, all of it unusually well-written. Highly recommended.” --Peter Matthiessen, National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country
“…a downright wonderful book. A fine writer and a superb naturalist, he brings the true observer’s eye and the artist’s sensibility to one of the most compelling subjects in all natural history….an unforgettable book-funny, tragic and brilliant.” -- Robert Michael Pyle, author of Mariposa Road and Sky Time in Gray’s River
"We continued slowly up the slope. The trackers starting making low coughing noises an imitation of gorillas feeding or at rest. There moving Meta told us. We must be careful..."
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Link to Feathers Lecture & Reading
Click the image to watch a recent Thor Hanson lecture and reading from Feathers, recorded by the SeaDoc Society . . .