{"product_id":"9780156033558","title":"Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding","description":"\u003cp\u003eArriving in the New World, Europeans were awestruck by a continent awash with birds. Today tens of millions of Americans birders have made a once eccentric hobby into something so mainstream it’s (almost) cool. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScott Weidensaul traces the colorful evolution of American birding: from the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes to the society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; from the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as convicted blackmailer Alexander Wilson and the endlessly self-mythologizing John James Audubon, to the awkward schoolteacher Roger Tory Peterson, whose \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to the Birds\u003c\/i\u003e prompted the explosive growth of modern birding. Spirited and compulsively readable, \u003ci\u003eOf a Feather \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates the passions and achievements of birders throughout Americcan history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008715505904,"sku":"9780156033558","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780156033558_p0.jpg?v=1763658155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780156033558","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}