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First Published:
Jun 2006, 240 pages
Paperback:
May 2007, 244 pages
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This article relates to Song of the Crow
When asked why he wrote
Song of the Crow,
Layne Maheu replies, "One of my
imaginary selves has
always been a biologist.
Perhaps in a former
lifetime I was a
nineteenth century
naturalist. The closest
I’d ever come to
realizing that fantasy,
though, is by bird
watching. Quickly I
found that merely seeing
and identifying bird
species was only a part
of it. I was interested
in bird behavior. So, I
looked over the
bookstore shelves and
right away found two
excellent books on crows
and the crow family.
From the very beginning,
it seems, crows and
their kindred species
have inspired people to
fantastic legends and
insight, and for good
reason they’re
considered the most
intelligent of birds."
Then, a few years ago,
two scientists came out
with a book that claims
to prove The Flood is a
geological event that
happened 7,000 years
ago. The Mediterranean
was poised 300 feet
above the Black Sea
basin, then a fresh
water lake. With a force
200 times that of
Niagara Falls, the sea
waters crashed down upon
the lake and within
three months, brought it
up to sea level. The
flood drove the cities
of humankind constantly
upland and caused a
diaspora of flood myths
across Asia and
Europe."
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May 2007 paperback edition.
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