



Picador, U.K.) is a New York Times bestseller.Įarlier books include The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery and Endurance in Early America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012) Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul (North Point 2005) and Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding (Harcourt 2007). His newest book, A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds(W.W. Weidensaul has written more than 30 books, including his widely acclaimed Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (North Point 1999), which was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. In later years he wrote long-running columns for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Harrisburg Patriot-News. Scott’s writing career began in 1978 with a weekly natural history column in the local newspaper, the Pottsville Republican in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where he grew up. Born in 1959, Scott Weidensaul (pronounced "Why-densaul") has lived almost all of his life among the long ridges and endless valleys of the Appalachian Mountains, a landscape that has defined much of his work.
