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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD Featured in the vast
majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally
associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian
dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man
to Plato's description of the soul growing wings and feathers,
birds have represented the soul in contrast to the body, the
spiritual as opposed to the earthly. The Bedside Book of Birds is
an unexpected and fascinating treasure trove of paintings,
drawings, essays and scientific observations: it marvellously
conveys the hope, the longing and the enchantment that birds have
evoked in humans in all cultures and all times. Beautifully
produced, the book contains more than one hundred illustrations,
ranging from early cave paintings through works by Audubon, Morris
and Gould, to Inuit and other works created in the twentieth
century. There are writings by naturalists like W.H. Hudson,
Laurens van der Post, Peter Matthiessen and Barry Lopez, and by
classical authors such as Shakespeare, Coleridge, Melville and Poe.
There is also a rich seam of contemporary work by Jorge Luis
Borges, Ted Hughes, Italo Calvino, Bruce Chatwin and Haruki
Murakami, among many others. The Bedside Book of Birds is a book to
explore, to savour, and to learn from - a book for the winged soul
in all of us.
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