Parrot's Wood [Paperback]

Erma Fisk, known to her friends as Jonnie, was a contented housewife until the sudden death of her husband. Mostly by accident (she claims) she became an amateur ornithologist and naturalist, winning awards as her horizons expanded to include research and birdbanding duties from Maine to Peru. On one occasion, in her early seventies, she lived alone in a remote cabin in Arizona.Jonnie Fisk has that rare gift of taking an engaging personalityinquisitive, observant, sympathetic, humorous, and above all indomitableand conveying in intact into print. Within the first few pages of her books the reader feels that he has made a new and valuable friend. Robert Finch