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The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
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Imaginative, whimsical and marvelous, Graeme Gibson’s The Bedside Book of Birds culls from art, essay, literature, poetry, folklore and natural history in an awe-inspiring and charmingly idiosyncratic, at times startlingly, arresting meditation on our lives with birds. Dip in and delight.
Featuring a new foreword by Margaret Atwood!
In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson offers an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and
birds.
From the Aztec plumed serpent to the Christian dove to Plato's vision of the human soul growing wings, religion and philosophy use birds to represent our aspirational selves. Winged creatures appear in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse a...
In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson offers an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and
birds.
From the Aztec plumed serpent to the Christian dove to Plato's vision of the human soul growing wings, religion and philosophy use birds to represent our aspirational selves. Winged creatures appear in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse a...
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