Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

by Jeremy Mynott

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What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about ourselves? Birdscapes is a unique meditation on the variety of human responses to birds, from antiquity to today, and from casual observers to the globe-trotting "twitchers" who sometimes risk life, limb, and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691135398

ISBN13:9780691135397

Release Date:March 2009

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Biographies Biological Sciences Birds Birdwatching Cultural Ecology Field Guides Memoirs Miscellaneous Nature

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