The Whimsy Farm Podcast Episode Twenty-Two: Jim Robbins on "The Wonder of Birds"
I speak with author Jim Robbins about his latest book "The Wonder of Birds" and other recent and upcoming writing projects.
The material below is quoted from the back page of "The Wonder of Birds."
"Jim Robbins was born and raised in Niagara Falls, New York, but has lived in Montana since 1977. He has written for The New York Times for more than thirty-five years, on a wide range of topics but with a special focus on science and environmental issues. He has also written for Audubon, Conde Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times, Conservation, and numerous other magazines. He has covered environmental stories across the United States and in far-flung places around the world, including Mongolia, Mexico, Chile, Peru, The Yanomami Territory of Brazil, Norway, and Sweden.
"["The Wonder of Birds"] is his sixth book. His first, "Last Refuge: The Environmental Showdown in the American West" (1993), was about reconciling the way we as a species live with our knowledge of ecosystems. He is also the author of "A Symphony in the Brain" (2000) and co-author of "The Open Focus Brain" (2007), about the critical and overlooked role that attention plays in our lives, as well as "Dissolving Pain" (2010), about the role of attention in pain. His interest in the nexus between the human central nervous system and the natural world grew out of of these three books.
"His fifth book, "The Man Who Planted Trees" (2012) is about the crisis in the world's forests caused by climate change and resource development."
You can find Jim on X or Twitter @JimRobbins19, on Facebook at Facebook.com/writerjimrobbins and at jimrobbinswriter.wordpress.com.