The Ghosts of Birds

by Eliot Weinberger

The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colorado River, records the dreams of people named Chang, and shares other factually verifiable discoveries that seem too fabulous to possibly be true. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811226182
• ISBN13: 9780811226189
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"