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Birds An Anthology
ISBN: HB: 9781851245291, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2020
272 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's "full-hearted evensong of joy illimited", Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts "dash round in circles" and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying "across the be...
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£16,99
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Belonging on an Island Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai'i
ISBN: HB: 9780300229646, Yale University Press, June 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands' beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, evolution, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concep...
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£40,00
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Birders of Africa History of a Network
ISBN: HB: 9780300209617, Yale University Press, June 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.
In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnogr...
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£45,00
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Birds of New Zealand A Photographic Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300196825, Yale University Press, October 2013
500 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1000 colour illus.
New Zealand's birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the wide variety of birdlife, b...
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£32,00
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