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Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World's Most Extraordinary Birds

Door Tim Laman e.a.

Categorie
Algemeen Vogels
Boeknummer
#365632-KH7
Titel
Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World's Most Extraordinary Birds
Auteur
Laman, Tim & Edwin Scholes
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Washington, DC : National Geographic Books
Jaar van uitgave
2012
ISBN10
1426209584
ISBN13
9781426209581
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blind stamped black cloth, dust jacket, coloured endpapers, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs), oblong (circa 26x31cm).
Samenvatting
"You'll initially find it hard to believe that these pictures are real-but they are. These are the most beautiful photographs of the world's most beautiful birds. The birds' behavior, richly described in the text, is as remarkable as their appearance. This is a book like no other book." --Jared Diamond, ornithologist and author of Guns, Germs, and Stee" Eight years. Eighteen expeditions. Fifty-one field sites. Thirty-nine unique species of birds-of-paradise, all photographed in the wild for the first time in history" "We turned our passion for science, photography, and media documentation into a comprehensive vision to share an unparalleled treasure of Earth's biodiversity with the world," write biologists and explorers Tim Laman and Edwin Scholes. These treas... (Lees verder)ures are the spectacular birds-of-paradise, native only to the remote New Guinea region but known the world around for their brilliant colors, otherworldly plumes, and elaborate courtship dances. Now, for the first and perhaps only time, all 39 species of these extraordinary birds are showcased together through the revealing words and exclusive photographs in this landmark book.
Pagina's
227
Conditie
Goed — Bottom edge dust jacket worn.
Prijs
€ 15,00

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