Scott weidensaul is the author of living on the wind across the hemisphere with migratory birds which was a pulitzer prize finalist return to wild america the ghost with trembling wings and mountains of the heart he lives in the pennsylvania appalachians. Living on the wind is a comprehensive overview of bird migration in the western hemisphere it delves into the evolution and mechanics of migration looking at the journeys of some individual species and using these to investigate more overall patterns of migration. Living on the wind across the hemisphere with migratory birds north point press a division of farrar straus giroux isbn 0 86547 543 1 hardcover april 1999 paperback april 2000 420 pages finalist 2000 pulitzer prize in nonfiction. Living on the wind across the hemisphere with migratory birds 432 by scott weidensaul and then an ocean as august wanes most of the alaskan birds travel east across the boreal forests of canada all the way to the maritime provinces and the coast of new england experiments have proven that migratory birds inherit a genetic urge to