The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey through a Century of Biology

Science News,  August 25, 2007  

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THE SNORING BIRD: My Family's Journey through a Century of Biology BERND HEINRICH

This personal narrative chronicles the experiences of the author's father, Gerd Heinrich, a naturalist who specialized in wasps, and the author's own development into a premier experimental biologist and naturalist. For the elder Heinrich, solving questions of speciation and animal behavior was a lifelong pursuit. As a youth, he collected animal specimens. Later, he made bird-collecting expeditions to Persia and Burma. Bernd Heinrich recounts the effects of World War II on his family and the emergence of his interest in nature after the war's end. The family eventually moved from Germany to Maine. Drawing on correspondence between him and his father, the author chronicles his childhood explorations of nature in America and his father's continued worldwide scientific expeditions. HarperColllns, 2007, 461 p., b&w photos, hardcover, $29.95.

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