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At a young age, Alva Harris became enthralled with the question of where he came from. His father's answer stretched credulity: A buzzard laid you on a stump and the sun came out and hatched you, he said. But for all of his life Harris never forgot his father's explanation--and continued seeking answers about our wondrous world and the dynamic forces that control us all.
Born on a Buzzard's Stump chronicles the first eight decades of Harris's singular story. From a penniless Depression-era child, he has called himself a plow-boy, hunter, trapper, taxidermist, commercial fisherman, biological collector, gold miner, military serviceman, ecologist, and professor. Not to mention outlaw--as when he was arrested in his high school English class for bringing a dead eagle to school.
But beyond these intensely personal experiences, Harris's account dazzles as he records the remarkable natural world that surrounds him and inspires his lifelong passion for the environment. Born on a Buzzard's Stump will ring true for anyone who has ever marveled at a forest trail, a dragonfly's wings, or an eagle's soaring flight. His quest adds awareness that we share a oneness with all life forms from ancestral microbes to the next species of man.

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