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Birds Of The Bible
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- GenresNature
476 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Gene Stratton-Porter
145 books686 followersShe was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day.
Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D. Porter in 1886, and they had one daughter, Jeannette.
She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. Although there is evidence that her first book was "Strike at Shane's", which was published anonymously, her first attributed novel, The Song of the Cardinal met with great commercial success. Her novels Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing central Indiana ecosystems she loved and documented. She eventually wrote over 20 books.
Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D. Porter in 1886, and they had one daughter, Jeannette.
She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. Although there is evidence that her first book was "Strike at Shane's", which was published anonymously, her first attributed novel, The Song of the Cardinal met with great commercial success. Her novels Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing central Indiana ecosystems she loved and documented. She eventually wrote over 20 books.
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August 13, 2020
I really wanted to like this book by early naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter. She was a pioneer and started the first woman-owned movie production studio. In the beginning I was impressed by her acceptance of science along with the story of creation.
Stratton-Porter is prone to long, flowery descriptions and flights of fancy. While she wrote a lot about birds most of the book was written in speculation about how things were with some little bit of the then current thinking of how the birds lived. (Her posit that things were then as they are now was a little unbelievable.)
Maybe some of her other books are better. For now, if I want naturalist tellings, I'll stick with Annie Dillard.
Stratton-Porter is prone to long, flowery descriptions and flights of fancy. While she wrote a lot about birds most of the book was written in speculation about how things were with some little bit of the then current thinking of how the birds lived. (Her posit that things were then as they are now was a little unbelievable.)
Maybe some of her other books are better. For now, if I want naturalist tellings, I'll stick with Annie Dillard.
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