Dreambirds Dream Birds: The Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food, and Fortune by Rob Nixon, Rob Nixon
Dreambirds Dream Birds: The Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food, and Fortune

Rob Nixon, Rob Nixon

Dreambirds Dream Birds: The Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food, and Fortune

Rob Nixon, Rob Nixon

256 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The ostrich is one of nature's misfits: a gigantic bird that can neither fly nor sing. But the fin-de-siecle fetish for feathers made ostrich plumes more precious than gold. Rob Nixon grew up near the South African desert where ostriches first boo...

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