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Original Title:	The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
ISBN:	0060742151 (ISBN13: 9780060742157)
Edition Language:	English

The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology Hardcover | Pages: 480 pages

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Title	:	The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
Author	:	Bernd Heinrich
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	May 15th 2007 by Ecco (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Environment. Nature. Science. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Animals. Birds. Natural History

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From Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, comes the remarkable story of his father's life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature have shaped his own life. Although Bernd Heinrich's father, Gerd, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd tried to distance himself from his “old-fashioned” father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a naturalist's sensibilities.

In this remarkable memoir, the award-winning author shares the ways in which his relationship with his father, combined with his unique childhood, molded him into the scientist, and man, he is today. From Gerd's days as a soldier in Europe to the family's daring escape from the Red Army in 1945 to the rustic Maine farm they came to call home, Heinrich relates it all in his trademark style, making science accessible and awe-inspiring.

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I am loving this book - but I love everything Heinrich writes. He is a very comfortable author and has a real passion for field biology and behavior. So I'm a bit biased. But even if you're not a biologist, this is a marvelous story.addendum - having finished the book, I still think it was marvelous. The first three-quarters told the story of his family in Poland and their survival during WWII; then followed them to the US and their settlement here. All extremely interesting and engaging. The

There are those people in the world from whom, after hearing their true story, you develop a different outlook to world and a deeper appreciation for the person. I never knew Bernd Heinrich, but if I had, I would have felt this way after reading his memoir, The Snoring Bird.Not only did the author write his own story about his coming of age in a time of war, under the critical eye of his naturalist father, but he also tells his father's story, upon which so much of it depends.A father-son tale

Fascinating and wide ranging. Natural history, WWII Poland/Germany, growing up in Maine, studying the temperature regulation of bees, the cataloging of wasps, running for 24 hours. So much. I do wish I could find a recording of the "distinctive seven-note Heinrich whistle" that the family used as signal when separated in the woods - it intrigues me.

This is an amazing book. It covers a lot of ground, and does so thoroughly. I enjoyed reading about the author's father's coming of age and history, and learned a lot about World War I while doing so. I learned a lot about taxidermy, and natural history, and wasps, and Expeditions. Then we moved into the story of the family, and as Bernd was growing up I was fascinated by the experiences he had as a young boy growing up in as an immigrant American. It was especially fun to read about Maine and

Up until December, 2007, I thought that the blogosphere was a place for people to discuss their political interests or their health concerns and since I had neither, I had never ventured in. But, a conversation one night at a dinner party with Amity peaked my interest. The next day, I discovered that I could search for blogs through igoogle using keywords. Well, I had just finished reading The Winter World for the third time and decided to search blogs using the author's name. I typed in Bernd

This is my most favorite book in the last 5 years by my most favorite writer. I have loved all his books about animals and nature but this one also brought in another view of personal history I had never been exposed to.

Read this for my bird club book club. Otherwise, I would have never picked it up and would have missed a great book. Heinrich's life and his father's spanned both Europe and the U.S. with collecting trips to many other spots. Both collected amazing amounts for natural knowledge in quite different ways. Bernt was obviously a fine scientist in his own right, and I was surprised by how much time he spent of the issue of pleasing or not pleasing his father. The role of women in this book was quite