Author: John GouldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
The Birds of Australia
Author: John GouldBirdman's Wife
Author: Melissa AshleyPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 192547528X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
A woman overshadowed by history steps back into the light . . . Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the sublime beauty of birds the world had never seen before. But her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould. The Birdman’s Wife at last gives voice to a passionate and adventurous spirit who was so much more than the woman behind the man. Elizabeth was a woman ahead of her time, juggling the demands of her artistic life with her roles as wife, lover, helpmate, and mother to an ever-growing brood of children. In a golden age of discovery, her artistry breathed wondrous life into hundreds of exotic new species, including Charles Darwin’s famous Galapagos finches. In The Birdman’s Wife, the naïve young girl who falls in love with a demanding and ambitious genius comes into her own as a woman, an artist and a bold adventurer who defies convention by embarking on a trailblazing expedition to collect and illustrate Australia’s ‘curious’ birdlife. In this indelible portrait, an extraordinary woman overshadowed by history steps back into the light where she belongs.
Charles Darwin's Life with Birds
Author: Clifford B. FrithPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190240237
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Focuses exclusively on Darwin the ornithologist, not on biographical aspects of Darwin's life
John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Birds of Australia
Author: Sue TaylorPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642277656
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In 1838, John Gould, the 'father of Australian ornithology' visited Australia with the intention of gathering material for his great work on Australian birds. In the resulting publication, The Birds of Australia: In Seven Volumes (1848), and the accompanying Supplement (1869), Gould named, for the first time, no fewer than 32 Australian bird species. Gould's words about the Norfolk Island Kaka were prophetic-the last bird of its kind died in a cage in London in 1851. Since then, a number of other species illustrated in The Birds of Australia have become extinct and others are now facing extinction. John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Birds of Australia features 59 plates of birds from Gould's eight-volume work, birds that today are threatened or that no longer exist. Featuring exquisite full-colour lithographs reproduced from the National Library of Australia's copy of The Birds of Australia, this book gives an insight into the history of each bird's European discovery, as well as its subsequent fortunes or misfortunes.
The Birds of Great Britain
Author: John GouldPublisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783337586942
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Birds of Great Britain - Vol. 5 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Ornithological Biography
Author: John James AudubonJohn Gould in Australia
Author: Ann DattaPublisher: Melbourne University Press
ISBN: 9780522847802
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Zoo
Author: Isobel CharmanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681774011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The founding of a zoo in Georgian London is a story of jaw-dropping audacity in the Age of Empire. It is the story of diplomats, traders, scientists and aristocratic amateur naturalists charged by Sir Stamford Raffles with collecting amazing creatures from all four corners of the globe.It is the story of the first zoo in history, a weird and wonderful oasis in the heart of the filthy, swirling city of Dickensian London, and of the incredible characters, both human and animal, that populated it—from Charles Darwin and Queen Victoria to Obaysch the celebrity hippo, the first that anyone in Britain had ever seen. This is a story of Victorian grandeur, of science and empire, and of adventurers and charlatans.And it is the story of a dizzying age of Empire and industrialization, a time of change unmatched before or since.This is the extraordinary story of London Zoo.
Audubon's Elephant
Author: Duff Hart-DavisPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805075687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A vividly illustrated account of John James Audubon's struggle in England to complete his masterpiece, "The Birds of America. Audubon's Elephant" was the nickname given to the naturalist's oversized folio of 435 life-size ornithological prints that remains to this day the most compelling depiction of bird life in the United States.
The Literature of Australian Birds
Author: Hubert Massey WhittellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description