This uplifting New York Times bestseller is equal parts memoir, travel-ogue, and primer on the art of birding. Better Living Through Birding tells the story of Christian Cooper’s days at Marvel Comics introducing the first gay storylines to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas, and the Himalayas, as well as the shocking encounter he experienced in Central Park. Cooper's journey shows how a life spent looking up at the birds helped him become a proud gay, Black man in America today. 

 

• Author: Christian Cooper
• Genre: Non-fiction; memoir; birding; LGBTQ+
• Paperback
• 304 pages, 5.17 x 0.66 x 8.03 inches