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Northern Irish writer Arthur (Reading Life; On the Shoreline of Knowledge) presents 17 essays on a genre he terms "a mercurial mode of writing." The title derives from the practice of 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania who sent specimens of hummingbirds pressed between the pages of books in letters to family and friends in Ulster, Ireland, who would not have seen such wonders. Ordinary i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More