{"product_id":"brown-pelican-paperback-1","title":"Brown Pelican - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRien Fertel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this compelling book, Rien Fertel tells the story of humanity's complicated and often brutal relationship with the brown pelican over the past century. This beloved bird with the mythically bottomless belly--to say nothing of its prodigious pouch--has been deemed a living fossil and the most dinosaur-like of creatures. The pelican adorns the Louisiana state flag, serves as a religious icon of sacrifice, and stars in the famous parting shot of \u003ci\u003eJurassic Park, \u003c\/i\u003e but, most significantly, spotlights our tenuous connection with the environment in which it flies, feeds, and roosts--the coastal United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated the first national wildlife refuge at Pelican Island, Florida, in order to rescue the brown pelican, among other species, from the plume trade. Despite such protections, the ubiquity of synthetic \"agents of death,\" most notably DDT, in the mid-twentieth century sent the brown pelican to the list of endangered species. By the mid-1960s, not one viable pelican nest remained in all of Louisiana. Authorities declared the state bird locally extinct. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Conservation efforts--including an outlandish but well-planned birdnapping--saved the brown pelican, generating one of the great success stories in animal preservation. However, the brown pelican is once again under threat, particularly along Louisiana's coast, due to land loss and rising seas. For centuries, artists and writers have portrayed the pelican as a bird that pierces its breast to feed its young, symbolizing saintly piety. Today, the brown pelican gives itself in other ways, sacrificed both by and for the environment as a bellwether bird--an indicator species portending potential disasters that await. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrown Pelican\u003c\/i\u003e combines history and first-person narrative to complicate, deconstruct, and reassemble our vision of the bird, the natural world, and ourselves.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRien Fertel \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer and teacher who lives in New Orleans. He is the author of three previous books: \u003ci\u003eDrive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 6.93 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47342594851065,"sku":"9780807178461","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RmtFYTRqdmowK3lhK3BUTnBUQ1Nadz09_fe75951b-be5d-40ac-8a82-81e8dc9ba671.webp?v=1769713841","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/brown-pelican-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}