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Alan Conrad
Yes, I'd always been a nature boy, a child who
understood the voice of the wind high up in tall
pines, or the messages offered in the trickle of
small streams and the singing fields of late
summer, better than he did the speech of people
who were supposed to be his own kind.
- Christopher Stone in The Birdcatcher
understood the voice of the wind high up in tall
pines, or the messages offered in the trickle of
small streams and the singing fields of late
summer, better than he did the speech of people
who were supposed to be his own kind.
- Christopher Stone in The Birdcatcher
This is the site of Alan Conrad, author of The Birdcatcher, a novel intended to be
a declaration of independence for shy solitary people.
To anyone hoping to learn something about me, I apologize. I'm one of those who
don't reveal much. As Christopher Stone says in The Birdcatcher, we're like deer
in a forest, happiest and most confident when we're least seen.
Should you read The Birdcatcher? Well, it's not a book for everyone. I wrote it
mostly for those of you who are shy and/or solitary by nature - for the introverted,
the social phobic, the love-shy, HSPs and those with autism, Asperger's
Syndrome, etc - but it's not just about shyness.
It's about the entire world. I's about our relationship to other species, and wild
places - a natural view of the natural world - and it's about the bizarre nature of an
unnatural world ruled by an unnatural god - money. It's about being burnt out but
still working because you need money, and it's about falling in love when you never
wanted to fall in love again.
It's a search for reality in an unreal world, a search for solutions where there
appear to be none. It's about where we may all be headed in this rushing current of
change at the beginning of the 21st century.
If you are one of those people who are interested in everything - in microbes and
galaxies, history and art, economics and music, love and war, then, whether you're
shy or not, The Birdcatcher is probably a book for you. The North American
publishing industry doesn't want you to read it, but for that reason you can now
download the book free from the PDF link on the left.
a declaration of independence for shy solitary people.
To anyone hoping to learn something about me, I apologize. I'm one of those who
don't reveal much. As Christopher Stone says in The Birdcatcher, we're like deer
in a forest, happiest and most confident when we're least seen.
Should you read The Birdcatcher? Well, it's not a book for everyone. I wrote it
mostly for those of you who are shy and/or solitary by nature - for the introverted,
the social phobic, the love-shy, HSPs and those with autism, Asperger's
Syndrome, etc - but it's not just about shyness.
It's about the entire world. I's about our relationship to other species, and wild
places - a natural view of the natural world - and it's about the bizarre nature of an
unnatural world ruled by an unnatural god - money. It's about being burnt out but
still working because you need money, and it's about falling in love when you never
wanted to fall in love again.
It's a search for reality in an unreal world, a search for solutions where there
appear to be none. It's about where we may all be headed in this rushing current of
change at the beginning of the 21st century.
If you are one of those people who are interested in everything - in microbes and
galaxies, history and art, economics and music, love and war, then, whether you're
shy or not, The Birdcatcher is probably a book for you. The North American
publishing industry doesn't want you to read it, but for that reason you can now
download the book free from the PDF link on the left.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Lone Pine - copyright Alan Conrad
White Tailed Deer - courtesy of the Pennsylvania Game Commission - Joe Kosack/PGC Photo - www.pgc.state.us
Lone Pine - copyright Alan Conrad
White Tailed Deer - courtesy of the Pennsylvania Game Commission - Joe Kosack/PGC Photo - www.pgc.state.us
