Michael Edmonds

press release: Join 702WI at Olbrich Botanical Gardens for a special discussion with author Michael Edmonds about his book Taking Flight: A History of Birds and People in the Heart of America. A book signing will follow.

A dynamic account of ornithological history in America's heartland. Taking Flight explores how and why people have worshipped, feared, studied, hunted, eaten, and protected the birds that surrounded them.