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Imperial Dreams: Tracking The Imperial Woodpecker Through The Wild Sierra Madre (2013)

by Tim Gallagher(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1439191522 (ISBN13: 9781439191521)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Atria Books

review 1: Eh. Some history and geography can be learned, mostly in the first half of the book. Therefore that part is interesting. The second half is staccato bursts of what they did, where they went, who they showed their movie to. Not interesting and full of unnecessary details. One begins to think the 'sightings' people report, as in, "I saw that bird 40 years ago when I was 2 years old" (exaggeration for effect), are not accurate. To put it nicely. All that said, interesting to learn how some people live and what they choose to do with their time.
review 2: I do a little birding on occasion; in the marshlands and the uplands of Northern California. At least six species of woodpecker frequent my neighborhood, which is a fairly substantial number when you consider spe... morecies distribution throughout the United States. The smallest is the Downy Woodpecker, which will occasionally work at our fig tree, the largest is the Pileated - a gorgeous, large woodpecker. But even the Pileated pales in comparison to the grandeur of the Imperial, a one time resident of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental that is now either very scarce or extinct. But the thing is, no one is really sure if the Imperial is still out there. After tracking down the supposedly extinct Ivory Billed woodpecker in an Arkansas swamp, Tim Gallagher decided to take on a similar quest following rumors on the Imperial. The only thing is, this search takes place in one of the most notorious drug growing areas in Mexico, a fact that is constantly at hand as Gallagher and his guides drive up isolated tracks into ever more threatening spots in the mountains of Chihuahua and Durango. While Gallagher leans toward self-aggrandizement and perhaps slight exaggeration, this fool’s quest for the sake of ornithological discovery is exciting and interesting, but also remarkably sad. less

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