Rien Fertel: The Pelican Holds Everything

Rien Fertel is the author of Brown Pelican and three previous books: Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera, The One True Barbecue, and Imagining the Creole City. He is currently a Visiting Professor of History at Tulane University.

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Mentioned in this episode:

[1:14] Rien Fertel’s Brown Pelican

[2:25] Fantasy Birding

[2:50] eBird

[9:20] Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

[15:19] Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

[15:58] Walter Anderson

[17:46] Jack Davis’s The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird