Birdman of Alcatraz: The Story of Robert Stroud (Gollancz Paperback) - Softcover

Gaddis, Thomas E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575037105 ISBN 13: 9780575037106

Publisher: Victor Gollancz, 1987

Synopsis

It was "The Rock." Thirteen acres in the middle of San Francisco Bay, home to the most dangerous men of their time. There was no gas chamber, no gallows, no quick way out. Sealed off and separate, it brooded over its inmates. Robert Stroud, grandson of a judge, was one. Sentenced to life in solitary confinement, he found solace in the birds that landed outside his cell window. For years he studied them, trained them and eventually wrote several books on their behavior. Remarkably, Stroud spent nearly 40 years in solitary before he died -- he never knew "alcatraz" means "pelican," or that early settlers called it "Bird Island."

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• Publisher: Victor Gollancz
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0575037105
• ISBN 13: 9780575037106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266