Author: William MacGillivrayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368749870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
A Manual of British Ornithology : Being a Short Description of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: William MacGillivrayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368749870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
A Manual of British Ornithology: The land birds
Author: William MacGillivrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A Manual of British Ornithology: The water birds
Author: William MacGillivrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants ... Corrected and condensed ... by William Macgillivray. Sixth edition
Author: William WitheringCatalogue
Author: Zoological Society of London. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Raptor
Author: James Macdonald LockhartPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022647058X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
As evidenced by the incredible success of Helen MacDonald's H is for Hawk, and the legions of fans of Pale Male, the incredible red-tailed hawk of 5th avenue, we are full of rapture for raptors. James Macdonald Lockhart, is among the many who have sought out these incredible birds, and in this lyrical work of natural history he seeks out 15 different raptors, in 15 different landscapes across England: a journey in search of raptors, a journey through the birds and into their worlds. Raptors are by nature scarce and extremely elusive. Of Pandionidae (osprey), Accipitridae (broad-winged harrier, eagle, buzzard, red kite) and Falconidae (peregrine, sparrowhawk etc.) only widespread buzzards, kestrels and kites are easily seen. Lockhart follows loosely the trail of 19th-century Scottish naturalist and artist William MacGillivray (1796-1852), As Philip Hoare wrote of it, James MacDonald Lockhart puts the rapture back in the raptor. This is in-the-moment writing, raw in beak and claw. With its gorgeously felt sense of life and place, Raptor rips at its words, turning them into exquisite portraits of the utter wild, shaping soaring, obsessive beauty out of the British landscape and its imperial birds"
The Bird Name Book
Author: Susan MyersPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691235694
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A marvelously illustrated A-to-Z compendium of bird names from around the globe The Bird Name Book is an alphabetical reference book on the origins and meanings of common group bird names, from “accentor” to “zeledonia.” A cornucopia of engaging facts and anecdotes, this superbly researched compendium presents a wealth of incisive entries alongside stunning photos by the author and beautiful historic prints and watercolors. Myers provides brief biographies of prominent figures in ornithology—such as John Gould, John Latham, Alfred Newton, and Robert Ridgway—and goes on to describe the etymological history of every common group bird name found in standardized English. She interweaves the stories behind the names with quotes from publications dating back to the 1400s, illuminating the shared evolution of language and our relationships with birds, and rooting the names in the history of ornithological discovery. Whether you are a well-traveled birder or have ever wondered how the birds in your backyard got their names, The Bird Name Book is an ideal companion.
Japan's Empire of Birds
Author: Annika A. CulverPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350184950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political aspects of highly mobile Japanese explorer-scientists, or cosmopolitan gentlemen of science, circulating between Japanese and British/American spaces in the transwar period from the 1920s to 1950s. Annika A. Culver examines a network of zoologists united by their practice of ornithology and aristocratic status. She goes on to explore issues of masculinity and race related to this amidst the backdrop of imperial Japan's interwar period of peaceful internationalism, the rise of fascism, the Japanese takeover of Manchuria, and war in China and the Pacific. Culver concludes by investigating how these scientists repurposed their aims during Japan's Allied Occupation and the Cold War. Inspired by geographer Doreen Massey, themes covered in the volume include social space and place in these specific locations and how identities transform to garner social capital and scientific credibility in transnational associations and travel for non-white scientists.