Research Catalog
Osprey Island
- Title
- Osprey Island / by Thisbe Nissen.
- Author
- Nissen, Thisbe, 1972-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
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- Description
- 279 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Contents
- The ones they came back for -- The lodge at Osprey Island -- Where the osprey makes its nest -- The raptor is a bird of prey -- To what direction will your chicks take wing? -- How black the night that blinds our human hearts -- As fodder blazes stored above the byre -- In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge -- The mechanics of flight -- An osprey builds its nest of sticks and all the rubbish it can collect -- How the osprey tends its nestlings -- The blessings of hypothermia -- On the interaction of species -- The nature of the structure of a lie -- The broodiness of hens: a brief lesson in avian reproduction -- If the price were treachery -- A long time helpless in the nest -- As they flee you'd think they float on wings -- WWCD? -- The shore recedes, and I too on the shore -- Grief-spurred, swift-swooping -- That flesh of his own flesh -- Night is the surest nurse of troubles souls -- An eyrie of osprey.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-14817
- ISBN
- 0375411461
- LCCN
- 2004040843
- OCLC
- 54046905
- Author
- Nissen, Thisbe, 1972-
- Title
- Osprey Island / by Thisbe Nissen.
- Imprint
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-14817