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table of contents
  1. Foreword to the 25th Anniversary Edition
  2. Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition
  3. Openings
  4. Coming Back
  5. Building
  6. Fishing
  7. The Dive
  8. On Osprey Time
  9. Neighbors, Good and Bad
  10. A Deeper Vision
  11. Respecting Our Elders
  12. Growth and Death
  13. Flight
  14. Learning Our Place
  15. Saving the World
  16. Living by Water
  17. The Off-Season
  18. Bibliographical Note
  19. Selected Bibliography
  20. Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

Abbott, Clinton G. The Home-Life of the Osprey. London: Witherby & Co., 1911.

Audubon, John James. The Birds of America. New York: Macmillan, 1937.

Bent, Arthur Cleveland. Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey. New York: Dover, 1937.

Berry, Wendell. Recollected Essays. New York: North Point Press, 1981.

Brown, Leslie, and Dean Amadon. Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World. Vols. I and II. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Brown, Philip, and George Waterson. The Return of the Osprey. London: Collins, 1962.

Burton, Maurice. The Sixth Sense of Animals. New York: Taplinger, 1972.

Carpenteri, Stephen D. Osprey: The Fish Hawk. Minnetonka, MN: North Word Press, 1997.

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Coon, Carleton. The Story of Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.

Dalton, Stephen. The Miracle of Flight. Buffalo: Firefly Books, 1999.

Davis, Burke. Biography of a Fish Hawk. New York: Putnam, 1977.

Dorst, Jean. The Life of Birds. Vol. I. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.

Dunford, Fred, and Greg O’Brien. Secrets in the Sand: The Archaeology of Cape Cod. Hyannis: Parnassus Imprints, 1997.

Dunne, Pete. The Wind Masters. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Dunne, Pete, Debbie Keller, and Rene Kochenberger. Hawk Watch: A Guide for Beginners. Cape May: Cape May Bird Observatory, 1984.

Dunne, Pete, David Sibley, and Clay Sutton. Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

Elder, John. Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.

Forbush, E. H. Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States. Amherst: Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, 1927.

Guss, David Μ. The Language of the Birds. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985.

Hay, John. The Bird of Light. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

Hay, John. Nature’s Year: The Seasons of Cape Cod. New York: An Audubon/Ballantine Book, 1961.

Jeffers, Robinson. Selected Poems. New York: Random House, 1963.

Knight, C. W. R. “Photographing the Nest Life of the Osprey.” National Geographic, vol. 62 (1932): 247–60.

Kurtén, Björn. Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Lanyon, Wesley E. Biology of Birds. Garden City: Natural History Press, 1964.

Leahy, Christopher. The Birdwatcher’s Companion. New York: Bonanza Books, 1982.

Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

Mercatante, Anthony S. Zoo of the Gods: Animals in Myth, Legend and Fable. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

Nigg, Joe. Wonder Beasts: Tales and Lore of the Phoenix, the Griffin, the Unicorn, and the Dragon. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995.

Pearson, Gilbert, ed. Birds of America. Garden City: Garden City Publishers, 1936.

Peterson, Roger Tory. The Birds. New York: Time, 1963.

Poole, Alan. Ospreys: A Natural and Unnatural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Price, Anders. “The Osprey.” Kalakotkas.com. This Web site is particularly helpful regarding the osprey in literature.

Puleston, Dennis. Blue Water Vagabond. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939.

Richardson, Robert D. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Roberts, Mervin F. The Tidemarsh Guide. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979.

Rogers, Marion Lane. Acorn Days: The Environmental Defense Fund and How It Grew. New York: Environmental Defense Fund, 1990.

Sanders, Scott Russell. Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

Schlaer, Robert. “An Eagle’s Eye: Quality of Retinal Image.” Science, vol. 176 (May 1972).

Short, Lester L. The Lives of Birds: Birds of the World and Their Behavior. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1993.

Skutch, Alexander. The Minds of Birds. College Station: Texas A & Μ University Press, 1996.

Snyder, Gary. The Old Ways. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1977.

Snyder, Helen, and Noel Snyder. Raptors. Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 1991.

Teal, John, and Mildred Teal. Life and Death of a Salt Marsh. New York: Ballantine, 1969.

Thomson, A. Landsborough. A New Dictionary of Birds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Maine Woods. 1864. New Haven: College and University Press, 1965.

Turner, Jack. The Abstract Wild. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Van Tyne, Josselyn, and Andrew Berger. Fundamentals of Ornithology. New York: Dover Publications, 1971.

Wilson, E. O. In Search of Nature. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996.

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Copyright 2001 by David Gessner, Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition copyright 2025 by David Gessner, Foreword to the 25th Anniversary Edition copyright 2025 by Cornell University, First published 2001 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing, and published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited. Published 2025 with a New Preface and Foreword by Cornell University Press, All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.
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