A Monograph of the Alcedinidae: Or, Family of Kingfishers

A Monograph of the Alcedinidae: Or, Family of Kingfishers
Title A Monograph of the Alcedinidae: Or, Family of Kingfishers PDF eBook
Author Richard Bowdler Sharpe
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Pages 652
Release 1868
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Kingfisher

Kingfisher
Title Kingfisher PDF eBook
Author Ildiko Szabo
Publisher Reaktion Books
Pages 200
Release 2019-09-15
Genre Nature
ISBN 1789141729

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Kingfishers are a stunning sight to behold. The dash and verve of these cosmopolitan birds has been admired for millennia, appearing in creation myths, imperial regalia, and cultural iconography, and they were once valued as highly as gold. Artists used their iridescent feathers in Tian-tsui, an iconic style of Chinese fine art, for more than 2,400 years. The magnificent temples at Angkor Wat in Cambodia owe their existence in part to the great wealth generated by the live kingfisher trade from the Indochina Peninsula. As well, as a muse, kingfishers have influenced philosophers, playwrights, and artists, from the Roman poet Ovid to Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, and others, while more recently, bio-mimicry engineers have turned to kingfishers for inspiration. This lavishly illustrated book delves into the origins and diversity of the more than 120 species of kingfishers, from the burly kookaburras to the diminutive birds that daringly pluck spiders off webs, defining their characteristics, their differences, their lifestyles, and their cultural significance around the world.

The Art of the Bird

The Art of the Bird
Title The Art of the Bird PDF eBook
Author Roger J. Lederer
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 225
Release 2019-09-25
Genre Nature
ISBN 022667505X

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The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style—from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould’s nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson’s ethereal watercolors—this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.

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Pages 1018
Release 1921
Genre Anonyms and pseudonyms
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List of Books on Ornithology in the Public Library of South Australia and Other Adelaide Libraries

List of Books on Ornithology in the Public Library of South Australia and Other Adelaide Libraries
Title List of Books on Ornithology in the Public Library of South Australia and Other Adelaide Libraries PDF eBook
Author Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia
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Pages 48
Release 1926
Genre Adelaide (S. Aust.)
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Dispelling the Darkness

Dispelling the Darkness
Title Dispelling the Darkness PDF eBook
Author John Van Wyhe
Publisher World Scientific
Pages 434
Release 2013
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9814458813

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The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.T H Huxley (1887). Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace's stories hold many surprises. Did Darwin really keep his theory a secret for twenty years? Did he plagiarise Wallace? Were their theories really the same? How did Wallace hit on the solution, and on which island? This book reveals for the first time the true story of Darwin, Wallace and the discovery that would change our understanding of life on Earth forever.

Collection of ... Catalogues in ... Vols

Collection of ... Catalogues in ... Vols
Title Collection of ... Catalogues in ... Vols PDF eBook
Author Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Pages 664
Release 1892
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