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Birds and Us - A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation (Hardcover)
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Birds and Us - A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation (Hardcover)
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List price R595
Loot Price R513
Discovery Miles 5 130
You Save R82 (14%)
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Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our
imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science,
faith, art and philosophy. Looking to the skies above, we have
variously worshipped them as gods, hunted them for sustenance,
adorned ourselves in their feathers, studied their wings to
engineer flight and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In
Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead
takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual
history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by
Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy,
from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight
to save endangered species and restore their habitats. Weaving in
stories from his own life as a scientist, including far-flung
expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in Spain and the bustling
guillemot colonies of the Faroe Islands, this rich and fascinating
book is the culmination of a lifetime's research and unforgettably
shows how birds shaped us, and how we have shaped them.
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