Hummingbirds flying upside down. Slugs mating while suspended in midair. A muscular mole turning somersaults in its tunnel. So much is happening, minute by minute, in your own backyard. In this Uncommon Field Guide, author Patricia Lichen combines standard field guide information about habitat, appearance, and range with delightful and engaging descriptions of the little-known facts, surprising details, and amusing-even bizarre-tidbits rarely found in ordinary field guides.
Patricia K. Lichen has done all but one of these things:
* left the White House in the back of a paddy wagon
* studied dolphins in the Florida keys
* dislocated her knee in the rigging of a topsail schooner
* been arrested in Peru for piracy
* learned tapdance from Rusty Frank
* been a Girl Scout leader
* chained herself to harpoon guns on whaling ships to prevent them from killing whales
* shared an office with Jesus Christ
* danced the hula in front of 50,000 at Aloha Stadium
* steered a 130 foot trawler through the Panama Canal
* lived on a commune in Tennessee
* stood inside an active volcano
* discussed shoes in American Sign Language with a chimpanzee
