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Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird

by Andrew Blechman

Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated since the dawn of man, they’ve been used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives. Charles Darwin relied heavily on pigeons to help formulate and

Publisher

Grove Press

Publication date

October 10, 2007

Format

Print edition

Pages

256

ISBN

9780802143280