Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience
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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"
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