Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir
    Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir
    Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir
    Audiobook6 hours

    Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir

    Written by Julia Zarankin

    Narrated by Nan McNamara

    4.5/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    For nature enthusiasts and fans of literary memoir, this witty, thoughtful narrative follows a middle-aged woman as she unexpectedly finds new meaning in life through birds.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateJan 5, 2021
    ISBN9781666545845
    Author

    Julia Zarankin

    Julia Zarankin is a writer and self-proclaimed birdsplainer. Her essays have been featured in several anthologies, and her writing has appeared in publications such as Threepenny Review, Birding Magazine, and The Globe and Mail. She won the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival nonfiction prize and has been a runner-up for PRISM International’s nonfiction prize, a finalist for the TNQ Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, and twice longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize. She lives in Toronto.

    Related to Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder

    Related audiobooks

    Personal Memoirs For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Full Monty

      Mar 16, 2023

      If I knew I were to die in six months’ time, what would I do in the garden? Perhaps the notion of planting for a future I could not share would seem pointless. But I doubt it. Gardening transcends time. Gardens never exist in any one moment. They are

      3 min read

    • Article

      Biophilia

      May 6, 2020

      Biophilia
      4 min read

    • Article

      Trees Have Their Own Songs

      Apr 4, 2017

      Trees Have Their Own Songs
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Fire Starters

      Oct 2, 2023

      The Fire Starters
      14 min read

    • Article

      How Birds Have Shaped Us

      Jan 13, 2022

      How Birds Have Shaped Us
      5 min read

    • Article

      Restless Herd

      Apr 14, 2021

      Restless Herd
      21 min read

    • Article

      Table Talk

      Sep 1, 2023

      Table Talk
      10 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jul 1, 2020

      The purpose of being alive is to carry a sequence of code.And so, being adopted, I’m part of a plot, a sleeper cellin enemy territory, quietly working against the systemfrom within. It’s fall, I’m on an ancestry website signing up for a DNA kit,becau

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      Apr 1, 2022

      Dear Cricket, Your magazine was first given to me by an older friend of mine, and now I’ve bought a subscription for another friend’s birthday. Your magazine will now bring joy to three people through a chain of giving—wow! I just wanted to thank you

      7 min read

    • Article

      Six Poems

      Feb 28, 2023

      Dear C, At first Virgil’s poem is quite dull; equivocalnames of products at The Container Store: Elfa White Medium Drawer, Mesh NarrowRolling Cart (Medium Solution), Narrow Classic Mesh Box and the number of pirouetting starseach product attained. An

      5 min read

    • Article

      Michael Crummey

      Sep 3, 2020

      Michael Crummey
      5 min read

    • Article

      How the Lark Got Her Crest

      May 30, 2023

      How the Lark Got Her Crest
      15 min read

    • Article

      My Grandfather’s Marbles

      Mar 13, 2024

      My Grandfather’s Marbles
      5 min read

    • Article

      I Ran Away From Home At 60!

      Feb 20, 2024

      Three decades ago, I celebrated my 30th birthday in the time-honoured tradition of all young people who think they are an adult but have no real idea about life, duty or personal responsibility – I got smashed. In fairness, I had quite a lot to get s

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      Nov 1, 2020

      Dear Cricket and Everybuggy, Hi! I’m a female boy scout and I love dancing, music, and animals. I also love this magazine. I have been getting it since I was eight! I’m the oldest of three and I have a dog named Copper, a leopard gecko named Leppy, a

      7 min read

    • Article

      BOOKS & MUSIC

      Jul 20, 2020

      Faansie Peacock is a birder, illustrator, author and regular contributor to this magazine. Faansie’s Bird Book is billed (excuse the pun) as a fully fledged field guide for kids, but with 722 species featured, it’s also a wonderful resource for anyon

      7 min read

    • Article

      Worlds Of Ink And Paper

      Nov 22, 2022

      As a young girl, I still remember my dear mother, smile on her face, curled up with Family Circle magazine in her lap. She was engrossed in an article titled “Butternut Wisdom,” written by Gladys Taber. At my age, it didn’t mean a thing to me. But as

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder

    4.5/5

    21 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words