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How to Watch a Bird

How to Watch a Bird( )
Author: Braunias, Steve
Series title:The Ginger Ser.
ISBN:978-0-9582629-6-5
Publication Date:May 2007
Publisher:Awa Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.95
Book Description:

As prize-winning journalist Steve Braunias stands on an apartment balcony on a sultry summer evening, a black-backed gull flies so close he is instantaneously bowled over with happiness: 'I thought: Birds, everywhere. I wanted to know more about them.'This book is the result - a wondrous personal journey into the amazing world of birds, and the people ensnared, captivated and entranced by them: the passionate tribe of bird-watchers and twitchers.

Book Details
Pages:160
Detailed Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Nature / Animals / Birds
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.7 x 20.32 x 1.27 cm
Book Weight:0.182 Kilograms
Author Biography
Braunias, Steve (Author)


Steve Braunias was born in New Zealand in 1960. He is an award winning New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor. He has 30 national awards for writing, including the 2009 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Literary fellowship, the 2010 CLL Non-Fiction Award, and the supreme award as the 2006 Qantas Fellowship at the New Zealand Qantas Media Award. He has also won awards as a sports writer, food writer, and humourist.

Braunias has worked as editor of Capital Times, feature writer at Metro magazine, deputy editor of the NZ Listenerand senior writer at the Sunday Star Times. He is the author of several books and has also written for satirical TV series Eating Media Lunch and The Unauthorised History of New Zealand. He will be at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival in 2015. He is the recipient of one of the two Nigel Cox Awards given out over the Auckland Writers Festival 2015.

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