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

Rob Nixon, Rob Nixon

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

Rob Nixon, Rob Nixon

289 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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

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