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‘Birdseye’ by Mark Kurlansky

By Eric Liebetrau

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 16, 2012

Most of us recognize the name Clarence Birdseye but few know the story of his adventurous life and massively productive career as an inventor and businessman. Leave it to Mark Kurlansky to bring Birdseye vividly to life. The author’s slim, pleasantly digressive biography highlights his subject’s strength of character and will to achieve, what one of his engineers described as the perfect combination of “a superb restless mind, an insatiable curiosity, enormous persistence, and the total lack of mental blocks.”

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