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Choosing Wildness: My Life among the Ospreys

Claude Arbour swapped urban civilization for nature at its purest. In Choosing Wildness, he describes his personal journey from being a high school dropout to becoming one of Quebec’s most respected ornithologists and avian conservationists, not only saving individual birds sent to him for reintroduction into the wild but also preserving a network of nesting sites in northern Quebec. Through his account, we are taken on a remarkable voyage, one in which we are invited to partake.

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