ghost birds

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"If you are in any way creative in your work, you know the feeling of having reached a certain point with a project, beyond which you can do no more without either going mad or running the risk of causing more harm than good by further tampering, ‘Here I stop,’ you say. With terribly mixed feelings—relief and regret, confidence and insecurity, self-satisfaction and self-disgust, among others—you turn in your work, and from that moment the work takes on a life of its own, separate from yours.”

- From “The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824,” by Harvey Sachs


Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1935-1941 available this fall. Cover illustration by the author.

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