Author: Peter SlaterPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Masterpieces of Australian Bird Photography
Author: Peter SlaterFeather and Brush
Author: Penny OlsenPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9780643065475
Category : Animal painters
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. It is a history inseparable from the development of Australian ornithology. Against a background of establishment of the country itself, naval draftsmen, convicts, officers, settlers, naturalists, artists and scientists alike contributed both to the art and to science.
Glimpses of Paradise
Author: Penny OlsenPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642276520
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The history of the Paradise Parrot - from its 'discovery' in the 1800s to its extinction in the 1920s and how claims of sightings have continued to the present day.
Hunters and Collectors
Author: Tom GriffithsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Dr Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and investigators of the Australian land and of its indigenous inhabitants contributed a sense of identity at colony-wide and eventually nationwide level. He also considers the rise of professional history, anthropology and archaeology in the universities, which ignored the efforts of the amateurs. Griffiths shows how the seemingly trivial activities of these hunters and collectors feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s. This book is outstanding in its originality, interpretative insight and literary flair.
Slater's Australian Birdwatcher's Notebook
Author: Peter SlaterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780947116613
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Wing Span
Author: Australian Plants
Author: Australian Books
Author: National Library of AustraliaPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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