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Owl (Paperback)
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Owl (Paperback)
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List price R394
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Discovery Miles 3 410
You Save R53 (13%)
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The owls are not what they seem. From ancient Babylon to Edward
Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat and the grandiloquent,
absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh to David Lynch's Twin Peaks,
owls have woven themselves into the fabric of human culture from
earliest times. Beautiful, silent, pitiless predators of the night,
possessing contradictory qualities of good and evil, they are
enigmatic creatures that dwell throughout the world yet barely make
their presence known. In his fascinating new book, bestselling
author and broadcaster Desmond Morris explores the natural and
cultural history of one of nature's most popular creatures. Morris
describes the evolution, the many species, and the wide spread of
owls around the world excluding Antarctica, owls are found on every
land mass, and they range in size from 28 centimetres (the Least
Pygmy Owl) to more than 70 centimetres tall (the Eurasian Eagle
Owl). As a result of their wide distribution, owls also occur in
the folk-tales, myths and legends of many native people, and Morris
explores all these, as well as the many examples of owls in art,
film, literature and popular culture. A new title by an acclaimed
author, and featuring many telling illustrations from nature and
culture, "Owl" will appeal to the many devotees of this emblematic
bird. Despite the fact that many have never seen or even heard an
owl, he illustrates through this enticing read that the owl's
presence is still very real to us today.
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