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"One of Forbes.com's 12 Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2016""One of the fascinating aspects of both the book and the recordings is that, while chasing after birdsong, Mr. Kroodsma captures so much other detail as well. . . . Listening to a Continent Sing, along with its website, is both an inspiration and a bundle of gifts waiting to be unwrapped."---Julie Zickefoose, Wall Street Journal"In its refreshing mix of history, linguistics, biology, and ethology, Listening to a Continent Sing brings back the joy and enthusiasm for scientific pursuits that can sometimes wane with time."---Helena J. Barr, Science"Kroodsma evokes the profound pleasure of rising before dawn to listen to the morning songs of the birds and ending the day with their evening choruses. . . . An informative exploration of the subtleties of bird songs." (Kirkus)"Birdsong maven Donald Kroodsma's travel journal is a welcome addition to the cycling-road-trip genre that began over a century ago. . . . It's the author's knowledge of birdsong . . . that makes this book so delightful." (Natural History)"The story is charming, funny, poignant, and heartwarming. . . . If you are going to treat yourself to one special gift this summer, make it this one!"---Cathy Taibbi, Examiner.com, "Listening to a Continent Sing will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in the outdoors, by cyclists, and above all by birders. I have only just begun reading the book, but I already suspect that it will turn out to be one of the outstanding popular birds books of the year." (The Curious Naturalist)"While the book may be categorized as a birding adventure, it is also the story of a father and son deepening their bond as they cycled by day and camped by night together for 10 weeks."---Jennifer J. Meyer, Orange County Register"Our sophistication in listening to birdsong and our enjoyment have been greatly facilitated by the writings of Don Kroodsma. . . . [Listening to a Continent Sing] provides a delightful, vicarious ride across our country."---Herb Wilson, Portland Press Herald"Listening to a Continent Sing is a travelogue of Kroodsma's 5,000 mile trip, a celebration of nature, and a multimedia experience--the book is littered with quick-response codes that link to samples of birdsong found throughout the trip, such as the pileated woodpecker and the sandhill crane." (Chicago Tribune)

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From the Back Cover

"Kroodsma delivers a continent-wide perspective on birdsong, weaving behavior, habitat, and evolution into a fabric that is rolled out as he and his son make the East-West journey by bicycle. There is no better guide to take you on this journey, as no one has the breadth of knowledge and field experience with birdsong that Kroodsma has."--Greg Budney, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Product details

Hardcover: 336 pages

Publisher: Princeton University Press (May 3, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0691166811

ISBN-13: 978-0691166810

Product Dimensions:

6.1 x 1 x 9.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.6 out of 5 stars

16 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#826,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This book is well-made; exquisitely put together with deluxe paper, beautiful sketches, and almost 400 QR codes to access and listen to, of the birds that he recorded, which are also available on an accompanying website. I winced after finishing the book, though, to see that he dedicated the book to "the birds, and David." In that order. See, David was his adult son who accompanied him on this incredible cross-country bike trip, and the book oozes with the tension between the author and his son throughout the trip. Even the son comments about how much the birds mean to the author! This ruined the book for me, as I didn't like reading the author's denigrating remarks about his son. Periodically he'd make up for it by trying to admire something about his son and stating "Some kid!" which was repetitive and got a bit tiresome, as some sort of "make-up-for-what-I've-been-saying-about-you." And the birds - oh my! Yes, I appreciated the author's knowledge and love for these birds. And it took a lot of hard work to record these birds. But the book is a bit contrived, as he admits in the Acknowledgement at the front of the book that although the trip took place in 2003, he went back three times to record birds between 2008-10. He also had someone else recording birds. So although the narrative is supposedly he and his son's trip and listening to birds along the way, it's been a much larger and longer project overall. More importantly, he quit teaching when he finished this bike trip and wrote three books on birds prior to putting together this book for publication in 2016. Because his descriptions of birds in this book went on ... and on ... and on... I began to feel that this book was merely borrowing information from his prior three books on birds. Being a biker myself, I couldn't see how he and his son would be biking 50-100 miles a day and yet while on the bike, he'd share a paragraph's worth of explanation of one bird or another to his son (who had no interest in the birds whatsoever). He also spoke of his job at the university in negative tones throughout the book, even ending the last chapter with a vulgar word. Wow. I wondered what his son - and his coworkers - thought of what he said about them in this book. Last of all: while he was excellent on explaining the geology of each state he traveled in - and I tremendously enjoyed his time in Idaho/Oregon since I lived in that area for 34 years - he lost me on his continual mocking tone when noticing Christian influences in the communities within which he traveled. This is offensive to those of us who still hold that the Creator God did indeed create these precious birds. The author went on and on about it so much that I felt he must have been convicted of his loss of faith - which he finally admitted to, toward the end of the book, i.e., that he'd been raised in the Dutch Reform Church in Michigan. I wish I could talk to the author and tell him that I could tell that God was still not far from his mind, as he often spoke in biblical phrases such as describing a beautiful day as "heavenly." But the oddest quirk was when he spoke twice of hoping to return in his next life as a raven, which is an Eastern religious view of reincarnation. When all along he'd been proud of his "scientific" view of life, here he was believing in something that is one of the most unscientifically provable belief systems in the world! So I can only recommend this book provisionally, noting the negative comments about his son, his coworkers, and people who believe in a Creator God. And to remember that this book is a put-together project that probably includes material from his other three books, and took years of re-recording, so does not reflect quite truthfully on what happened on the actual 2003 road trip. And P.S. Why no map included?! I had to go online to find the path they were following from the 1976 Bicentennial trail.

I love this book, for all the reasons that the "editorial reviews" up above say, but there's so much more. I love the conversations with people along the way, especially across Appalachia where the dialects in human voices change as much as the dialects in bird voices, and I can listen in on everything, as if I were accompanying the author myself, by going to the website for the book. I especially enjoyed listening to Charles Haupt in Charles City, Virginia, tell about his purple martins, and hillbilly Mary Lou Napier telling about her birds around the campfire in Buckhorn State Park, Kentucky, or the Rev. James Love in Eastview, Kentucky, telling why his mockingbird sings all night long (they're "happy"). I love the dogs in Kentucky; the friendly people of Kansas.The geology of this US of A from the Atlantic to the Pacific is extraordinary. My favorite chapters are "Caterpillars Marching" (Basin and Range), "Into the Fire" (Yellowstone), "Ascending into Oregon," and "Geological Chaos" (I had no idea that most of Oregon was added to North America by scraping islands off the Pacific tectonic plate as it slid under North America).The book contains fine history lessons, too, beginning where the country was born at the end of the Revolution in Yorktown, Virginia, through Civil War battlefields, to the Oregon Trail, biking with Lewis & Clark, commiserating with Chief Joseph and the Nez Perz.And there's the father-son relationship throughout, often needing a little adjustment, as the father (author) loves to bike early in the morning, while the son (David) loves to sleep in and bike late in the day.And BIRDSONG! Wow, I have been a birder for decades, but now I listen to birds with an entirely new ear. I will never listen to the most common birds in the same way again. I'm hooked on listening to robins, red-eyed vireos, mockingbirds, well, for that matter, any bird that opens its bill to say something. And in the book there's listening to dogs, geysers, wind, rain, sleet, the simple sound of tires on pavement, the sound of labored breathing on an uphill. Our lives are an aural feast, if only we slow down to listen!Go to the website (listeningtoacontinentsing.com) and listen to your favorite birds, or your favorite location along the ten-state journey. I especially love listening to the "dawn chorus" section of the website, where I can hear birds awake in dawn singing as I sweep across the country.A very special book, one of a kind. Ten stars in my book!

This book would appeal to cyclists, birders, historians, parents. So many interesting aspects. The author bikes across the U.S, fully self contained, . with adult son and records sounds—not just birds but dogs, people in Appalachia, etc. The bird sounds are given a wonderful analysis, calling our attention to changes in the calls, conversations with other birds, difference within species between western and eastern of the same species. The book can be appreciated many times over.

A great book for birders, cyclists and other adventures, or really anyone who appreciates nature and a good story. The book itself is beautiful and the companion website alone is a great resource. As a bike-rider and traveler, I really enjoy the story of the bike tour. I know little about birds and their songs but thanks to Kroodsma, am quickly learning.

Pretty excited to give this as a gift. I love the scannable bird song parts. It adds a fun component as you are reading through it. It’s a unique book that is great for bird lovers.

An extraordinary immersive reading experience. All non-fiction books, particularly history, biography and science, should have similar online linked reference and supporting explicatory materials.

This book is a wonderful combination of stories and sounds and trip across the country. I was not able to read the bar codes but go to the companion website “Look Inside the Book” on my computer after I've read each chapter to listen to Kroodsma’s recordings of the birds he recorded on his bicycle journey. Love it!

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