The Beauty of Birds: From Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

Spring returns and with it the birds. But it also brings throngs of birders who emerge, binoculars in hand, to catch a glimpse of a rare or previously unseen species or to simply lay eyes on a particularly fine specimen of a familiar type. In a delightful meditation that unexpectedly ranges from the Volga Delta to Central Park and from Charles Dickens's Hard Times to a 1940s London burlesque show, Jeremy Mynott ponders what makes birds so beautiful and alluring to so many people.


Princeton Shorts are brief selections taken from influential Princeton University Press books and produced exclusively in ebook format. Providing unmatched insight into important contemporary issues or timeless passages from classic works of the past, Princeton Shorts enable you to be an instant expert in a world where information is everywhere but quality is at a premium.

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The Beauty of Birds: From Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

Spring returns and with it the birds. But it also brings throngs of birders who emerge, binoculars in hand, to catch a glimpse of a rare or previously unseen species or to simply lay eyes on a particularly fine specimen of a familiar type. In a delightful meditation that unexpectedly ranges from the Volga Delta to Central Park and from Charles Dickens's Hard Times to a 1940s London burlesque show, Jeremy Mynott ponders what makes birds so beautiful and alluring to so many people.


Princeton Shorts are brief selections taken from influential Princeton University Press books and produced exclusively in ebook format. Providing unmatched insight into important contemporary issues or timeless passages from classic works of the past, Princeton Shorts enable you to be an instant expert in a world where information is everywhere but quality is at a premium.

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The Beauty of Birds: From Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

The Beauty of Birds: From Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

by Jeremy Mynott
The Beauty of Birds: From Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

The Beauty of Birds: From Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

by Jeremy Mynott

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Spring returns and with it the birds. But it also brings throngs of birders who emerge, binoculars in hand, to catch a glimpse of a rare or previously unseen species or to simply lay eyes on a particularly fine specimen of a familiar type. In a delightful meditation that unexpectedly ranges from the Volga Delta to Central Park and from Charles Dickens's Hard Times to a 1940s London burlesque show, Jeremy Mynott ponders what makes birds so beautiful and alluring to so many people.


Princeton Shorts are brief selections taken from influential Princeton University Press books and produced exclusively in ebook format. Providing unmatched insight into important contemporary issues or timeless passages from classic works of the past, Princeton Shorts enable you to be an instant expert in a world where information is everywhere but quality is at a premium.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781400843152
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 05/06/2012
Series: Princeton Shorts , #10
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 43
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Jeremy Mynott has been watching, listening to, and thinking about birds--and birders--for much of his life. He is the former chief executive of Cambridge University Press and is a fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

  • FrontMatter, pg. i
  • Beauty and the Beholder, pg. 1
  • Acknowledgements and Permissions, pg. 39
  • About the Author, pg. 40
  • Related Titles, pg. 40

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