'The most glorious cornucopia celebrating our enduring love affair
with birds - an uplifting and eye opening tribute to the way they
enrich our lives.' - Alan Titchmarsh MBE, British TV presenter,
broadcaster, and gardener 'Wonderfully illustrated.' - Wall Street
Journal Let your imagination take flight and celebrate the beauty
and diversity of birds throughout art, science, history, and
culture This visually stunning survey of birds, chronicling their
scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the
world, showcases the remarkable diversity of species in the avian
kingdom, from tiny hummingbirds to ostriches taller than humans,
and icebound penguins to tropical macaws. With its content curated
alongside an international panel of ornithologists, art historians,
wildlife photographers, conservationists, and curators, this
extraordinary book includes illustrations and artwork of all
styles, with works by a diverse and often surprising range of
creators from many different backgrounds, including: John James
Audubon; Robert Clark; Mark Dion; Charley Harper; Barbara Kruger;
Edward Lear; Ustad Mansur; John Ruskin; Joel Sartore; Sarah Stone;
and Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe. Arranged in thoughtfully paired
juxtapositions, it reveals how artists, illustrators,
ornithologists, and photographers - from ancient Egypt to the
present - have captured the spirit, likeness, character, and
symbolism of birds. Including Tweety pie paired with the Twitter
bird; birds as 300-foot desert carvings or 2-inch-tall ivory
statuettes; bird bones, bird bank notes, sculptures and birds
shaped as beds, the book's three hundred visually stunning entries
span four thousand years of fine art, photography, ornithological
drawings, popular culture, and scientific discovery from all
corners of the globe to create the ultimate celebration of the
winged world. Advisory panel: Dawn Balmer, Tim Birkhead FRS, Dr
Alexander Bond, Gordon Campbell, Dr Sylke Frahnert, Joelle Garcia,
Elizabeth Hammer, David Lindo aka The Urban Birder, Jen Lobo, Fred
G. Meijer, Sabine Meyer, Penny Olsen, Oliver Rampley, Katrina van
Grouw and Dr Lisanne Wepler Additional texts: Giovanni Aloi, Sara
Bader, Dr Alex Bond, Dr Michael Brooke, Tim Cooke, Clare Coulson,
Nick Crumpton, Louisa Elderton, Diane Fortenberry, Carolyn Fry,
Elizabeth Hammer, David Lindo, Fred G. Meijer, David B Miller,
Rebecca Morrill, Penny Olsen, Michele Robecchi, Gill Saunders,
James Smith, David Trigg, Katrina van Grouw, Martin Walters,
Isabella Wing-Davey and Dr Lisanne Wepler
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