Birdscapes Mynott Jeremy
Birdscapes Mynott Jeremy What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about…
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Birdscapes Mynott Jeremy
What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about ourselves? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world?
His sources range from the familiar--Thoreau, Keats, Darwin, and Audubon--to the unexpected--Benjamin Franklin, Giacomo Puccini, Oscar Wilde, and Monty Python. 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.Drawing extensively on literature, history, philosophy, and science, Jeremy Mynott puts his own experiences as a birdwatcher in a rich cultural context. Just as unusual are the extensive illustrations, which explore