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The Beauty of Birds: From \Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience\

Jeremy Mynott

2012

Overview

Spring returns and with it the birds. But it also brings throngs of birders who emerge, binoculars in hand, to catch a glimpse of a rare or previously unseen species or to simply lay eyes on a particularly fine specimen of a familiar type. In a delightful meditation that unexpectedly ranges from the Volga Delta to Central Park and from Charles Dickens's Hard Times to a 1940s London burlesque show, Jeremy Mynott ponders what makes birds so beautiful and alluring to so many people. Princeton Shorts are brief selections taken from influential Princeton University Press books and produced exclusively in ebook format. Providing unmatched insight into important contemporary issues or timeless passages from classic works of the past, Princeton Shorts enable you to be an instant expert in a world where information is everywhere but quality is at a premium.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Adage / American Museum of Natural History / Anthropology / Archibald Thorburn / Arctic tern / Bee-eater / Bewick's wren / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs / Bird feeder / Bird watching / Birds / Birdwatching Guides / Black guillemot / Black-throated loon / Bruno Liljefors / Captain Flint / Cassowary / Cattle / Cetacea / Charles Dickens / Charles Tunnicliffe / Climate of London / Common buzzard / Common sandpiper / Common tern / David Attenborough / Deep sea / Diorama / Dunnock / Ecology / Edward Lear / Edwin Way Teale / Egret / Field guide / Fieldcraft / Floral design / Flycatcher / Frigatebird / Gannet / Goose / History / Hoopoe / Human-animal relationships / Hunting / Hyacinth macaw / Illustration / Illustrator / Insect / Invertebrate / Jack snipe / Jizz (birding) / John James Audubon / Joseph Wolf / Lars Jonsson (illustrator) / Long-eared owl / Louis Agassiz Fuertes / Mammal / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings / Mark Cocker / Mute swan / Natural environment / NATURE / NATURE / Birdwatching Guides / Night heron / Nightjar / Ornithology / Pantheism / Parrot / Peafowl / Personal Memoirs / Peter Matthiessen / Pheasant / Plumage / Political Science / Psychological aspects / Reality television / Red kite / Resplendent quetzal / Robert Louis Stevenson / Roger Tory Peterson / Satyr tragopan / SCIENCE / Seascape / Sentimentality / Smew / SOCIAL SCIENCE / General / Sociology / Song thrush / Spix's macaw / Springwatch / Struggle for existence / Swan / Tawny owl / Ted Hughes / Tern / Terrestrial animal / The Birds of America / The Decay of Lying / The Great Exhibition / The Yearling / Thomas Bewick / Thomas Pennant / Trade-off / Tragopan / Tundra swan / Turnstone / Vireo / Volga Delta / Wader / Warbler / Wild boar / Wild turkey / Wood sandpiper / Woodcut / Zoology
• ISBN: 1400843154, 9781400843152