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Birdscapes [electronic resource] : birds in our imagination and experience / Jeremy Mynott

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Mynott, Jeremy
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xi, 367 p., 8 p. of plates ; ill. (some col.), maps, music ; 25 cm.
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Summary
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 marriages simply to add new species to their "life lists."
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ISBN
9780691135397 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691135398 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-345) and indexes.
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