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Extinct Birds

Door Errol Fuller

Categorie	Algemeen Vogels
Boeknummer	#366486-KH18
Titel	Extinct Birds
Auteur	Fuller, Errol
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2000
ISBN10	0198508379
ISBN13	9780198508373
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blind stamped red boards, gilt lettered spine, decorated endpapers, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour and b/w drawings, 4to.
Samenvatting	Since 1600 some 80 bird species have become extinct. The author has drawn on a wide range of sources for his accounts of these birds, their habits and demise, with evidence of preserved specimens brought to life by the eye-witness accounts of early travellers and explorers. Their stories are sometimes tantalisingly slight: isolated sightings of a single bird may be the only evidence that a species ever existed. By contrast, the expeditions of Nineteenth Century naturalists are often welldocumented and their descriptions accompanied by detailed drawings and paintings. In more recent cases our knowledge about an extinct species can be so extensive that even the precise time and place of death of its last surviving member is recorded. Virtually all of the species documented here are illustrat... (Lees verder)ed with colour plates from archival sources, including the work of such acknowledged masters as Audubon, Keulemans and Lear. These artists often had the advantage of working from fresh specimens or even from living birds, and besides its beauty their work is a primary source of scientific knowledge in its own right. Where no appropriate picture exists, new paintings have been produced especially for the book. The stories of these birds are sometimes fantastic, often touching and humorous, but ultimately sad. Extinct Birds is a fascinating record of those species of birds which have been unable to adapt and survive, and a timely reminder of the human capacity to change the environment for the worse.
Pagina's	378
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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