Birdscapes : : Birds in Our Imagination and Experience / / Jeremy Mynott.
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 variet...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 8 color illus. 32 halftones. 25 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- 1. Wondering about birds
- 2. Amusive birds: Attraction and association
- 3. Seeing a difference
- 4. Rarity value
- 5. Beauty and the beholder
- 6. The sense of sound
- 7. A time and a place
- 8. Wild nature: The politics of preference
- 9. Naming matters
- 10. Birds are good to think with
- Envoi: "Stirred for a bird"
- Appendix 1. Some Notable Lists: The Sumerians, Thomas Jefferson, John Clare
- Appendix 2. Birds and Bonnets: A New York Hat Story
- Appendix 3. Nightingale Mysteries
- Appendix 4. Some Australian Bird Names
- Reference Matter
- Index of Birds
- General Index
- Acknowledgements and Permissions