Birding Babylon: A soldier's Journal from Iraq by Jonathan Trouenn-Trend (Sierra Club Books; 80pp.)

Just a nice little book on what a birder soldier does in the Green Zone in his down time. I hope he gets to go back someday and do some birding outside the Green Zone in peaceful times.


Eric Kowalczyk

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Frodo: I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. .... And that is an encouraging thought.