Birdscapes
Birds in Our Imagination and Experience
1st Edition
Published on 12. October 2021
384 pages
978-1-4008-3283-5 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
8 color illus. 32 halftones. 25 line illus.
8 color illus. 32 halftones. 25 line illus.
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978-1-4008-3283-5 (9781400832835)
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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.
Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- 1. Wondering about birds
- Shingle Street
- Witnesses and prophets
- Birds and ourselves
- 2. Amusive birds: Attraction and association
- Horsey
- Favourites and fancies
- Meanings and masks
- Charisma and beyond
- 3. Seeing a difference
- Isles of Scilly
- Distinctions and differences
- Species and individuals
- Observing and perceiving
- Illusion and self-deception
- Patterns, profiles, and all that jizz
- 4. Rarity value
- Central Park
- The listing habit
- Collection and possession
- The hunting instinct
- Extreme pursuits
- Discovery and diversity
- 5. Beauty and the beholder
- Volga Delta
- Signs of life
- Image and imagination
- Colour and form
- Art and nature
- 6. The sense of sound
- Little Thurlow
- Sound and silence
- Sounds different
- Signs of sound
- "And the winner is . . . "
- The sound of music
- 7. A time and a place
- Flannan Isles
- The sense of a season
- Birds in a landscape
- 8. Wild nature: The politics of preference
- Old Hall Marshes
- Disturbance and disorientation
- Intervention and conservation
- Belonging?
- 9. Naming matters
- Kakadu
- What's in a name?
- Facts and fancies: Naming the birds
- Invention and discovery
- Regulation and resistance: The Esperanto illusion
- 10. Birds are good to think with
- Delphi
- A bird told me
- Signs and symbols
- Eagles and emblems
- Why birds?
- Seeing what you believe
- Like a bird
- Envoi: "Stirred for a bird"
- Shingle Street
- Appendix 1. Some notable lists
- Appendix 2. Birds and bonnets: A New York hat story
- Appendix 3. Nightingale mysteries
- Appendix 4. Some Australian bird name
- Reference matter: Abbreviations Notes, sources, and further reading
- Index of birds
- General index
- Acknowledgements and permissions
