Bird Watching with The Peregrine: Towards Literary Geographies of Comfort Reading

Authors

  • Robert M. Briwa Angelo State University

Keywords:

comfort reading, expansionary literary geographies, coronavirus, therapeutic landscape, J.A. Baker, bird watching

Abstract

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Author Biography

Robert M. Briwa, Angelo State University

Assistant Professor of GeographyDepartment of History

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2020-12-23

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Thinking Space