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John James Audubon was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and
painter. The Birds of America contains 435 life-size watercolours
of North American birds, some of which reproduced here in our
QuickNotes notecard set. 20 notecards and envelopes, 5 each of 4
images. Packaged in a sleek, sturdy flip-top box with magnetic
closure. Cards printed on coated paper stock to bring out their
full colour. Cards and envelopes bundled together with a paper
belly band inside each box. Box measurements 143 x 120 x 34mm.
The Birds of America is one of the best known natural history books
ever produced and also the most valuable - a complete set sold at
auction in December 2010 for GBP7.3 million, which is a world
record for a book. First published in double elephant size
(approximately a metre tall) in the first half of the nineteenth
century, it is famous for its stunning life-size illustrations of
birds set within landscaped backgrounds. The book was issued
inparts over 11 years and only around 200 completed sets were ever
produced. Less than 120 of these survive today, locked away in
museums, galleries and private collections around the world. To
create this edition of Audubon's masterpiece, the Natural History
Museum's own original edition was disbound and each of the 435
beautiful hand-coloured prints was specially photographed. The
artworks are accompanied by the scientific descriptions that were
used in the original The Birds of America and there is also a new
introduction by David Allen Sibley.
Many people believe in Jesus Christ but want nothing to do with the
church. Some others who call themselves committed Christians will
not commit to a local church. We have to be honest. There is a
dearth in the church in many countries. At times the church has
been very sick and the illness seemed to be terminal; yet it
survives and in many places grows phenomenally. "Dry Bones can
Live", addresses this problem and proposes a dynamic remedy;
setting out a strategy for local churches to consider. It is full
of stories from the pastor's casebook, which illustrate the reality
and effectiveness of the Gospel in transforming lives
This book is based on William Caxton's translation of 15th century
French author Raoul Lefevre book Histoire de Jason (he wrote in
1460). The Histoire de Jason is known from 20 manuscripts and 30
different printed editions, and was translated in English in 1477
by William Caxton, and in Dutch in 1485. Lefevre was the chaplain
of Philip the Good, the creator of the Order of the Golden Fleece,
which was based on the classical Jason story.
John James Audubon is arguably America's most widely recognized and
collected artist. His Birds of America has been reproduced often,
beginning with the double elephant folio printed by Havill in
England, followed by a much smaller "Octavo" edition printed in
Philadelphia and sold by subscription. After Audubon's death, his
family arranged with the New York printer Julius Bien to produce
another elephant folio edition, this time by the new
chromolithographic process. It too would be sold by subscription,
but the venture, begun in 1858, was brought to an abrupt end by the
Civil War. Only 150 plates were produced, and the number remaining
today is slight; they are among the rarest and most sought after
Audubon prints. Bound in cloth with a full cloth slipcase, this
beautifully produced book is the first complete reproduction of
Bien chromolithographs and will become the centerpiece of any bird
lover's library.
Natural history illustration is a popular choice for artists and
perfect for developing colour technique.
This book is based on William Caxton's translation of 15th century
French author Raoul Lefevre book Histoire de Jason (he wrote in
1460). The Histoire de Jason is known from 20 manuscripts and 30
different printed editions, and was translated in English in 1477
by William Caxton, and in Dutch in 1485. Lefevre was the chaplain
of Philip the Good, the creator of the Order of the Golden Fleece,
which was based on the classical Jason story.
First published in the middle of the nineteenth century, following
years of research and field study, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of
North America (its original title) became the outstanding
illustrated work on American mammals of its time and is still
considered by many to include the finest animal prints published in
North America. The book included many frontier animals never
depicted before and helped to increase appreciation of American
nature around the world. This edition of Audubon's classic work has
been directly reproduced from an original copy held by the Library
of the Natural History Museum, London. All the mammals' current
scientific names have been included in the reference section at the
back of the book.
Everything about Suffolk is unexpected: A New Suffolk Garland
gathers the best writing, new and old, from people who love this
special county. Everything about Suffolk is unexpected. For
centuries it has been a much-loved place for writers, artists,
musicians, fishermen, farmers ... A New Suffolk Garland gathers the
best writing, new and old, from people who love this special
county: from a twelfth-century monk to Ed Sheeran, through
Gainsborough, Dickens, W.G. Sebald, Ronald Blythe, Robert
MacFarlane, Michael Ondaatje and Penelope Fitzgerald to Roger
Deakin, Melissa Harrison and Helen Macdonald. The anthology
contains specially written new work by Craig Brown, Ralph Fiennes,
India Knight, Olivia Laing, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Robin Robertson
and Lucy Walker. From the art of hedge-laying to the undiscovered
treasures of Suffolk's churches, from the Suffolk punch stable to
Delia Smith's kitchen table, from swimming with otters in the River
Waveney to the golden aurioles of Lakenheath, this new collection
encapsulates all that is best about Suffolk.
In poems as tautly constructed as they are trenchantly observed,
Winter, Glossolalia probes the nature of language to depict the
world from which it springs. Paired with humorous, often satirical
images, this collection explores human ingenuity and creativity
against the material resources of the given world, highlighting the
possibilities and the limits of artistic making. In that sense, it
is both a timely and enduring book, one that recalls Virgil’s
Georgics as readily as it evokes the crisis of anthropogenic
climate change.
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is
an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist
in a state of loss. “We lived overlooking the walls overlooking
the cemetery.†So begins the title poem of this collection, whose
recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things,
punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed
histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets
unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami,
Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a
transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are
poems of frequent swerves and transformations, which never stray
far from an engagement with science, geography, art, and
aesthetics, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant
investigations. Indeed, while John James begins with the
biographical—the haunting loss of a father in childhood, the
exhausted hours of early fatherhood—the questions that emerge
from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it
to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live
in a time of political and environmental upheaval, of both personal
and public loss? How do we make meaning, and to whom—or what—do
we turn, when such boundaries so radically collapse?
This survey, and fascinating history, of the public green spaces of
London was published in 1898. Its author, John J. Sexby, the Chief
Officer of Parks of the London County Council, is described as a
lieutenant-colonel and a professional associate of the Surveyors'
Institution, from which it can be deduced that he probably worked
as a surveyor in the army. His skills as a horticulturalist and
garden designer cannot be doubted, and he left his mark on many of
the municipal parks and gardens about which he writes with such
enthusiasm. Sexby focuses on the municipal parks (those maintained
by local authorities) rather than the nationally managed parks in
central London. He describes large open spaces such as Hampstead
Heath as well as small, disused churchyards like that of St
Dunstan's in Stepney, providing details of their former owners and
use as well as their present condition.
Nathaniel Pearce (1779-1820) was, according to J. J. Halls, who
edited and published his autobiographical writings in 1831, 'one of
those remarkable and adventurous beings, whom Nature ... seems to
take delight in creating'. Having run away to sea twice, deserted
from the navy, accidentally killed a man, and briefly converted to
Islam, he came into his own as a guide and factotum to British
travellers in Egypt. He accompanied Henry Salt's 1805 mission to
Abyssinia, where he married a local girl and served the ruler of
Tigre until the latter's death in 1816. Pearce's humorous account
of his life is particularly interesting in the details it gives of
the land and people of Ethiopia, then little known by Europeans.
Volume 1 begins the narrative of Pearce's life and his African
travels and also contains an account of an expedition to the city
of Gondar by his friend William Coffin.
Nathaniel Pearce (1779-1820) was, according to J. J. Halls, who
edited and published his autobiographical writings in 1831, 'one of
those remarkable and adventurous beings, whom Nature ... seems to
take delight in creating'. Having run away to sea twice, deserted
from the navy, accidentally killed a man, and briefly converted to
Islam, he came into his own as a guide and factotum to British
travellers in Egypt. He accompanied Henry Salt's 1805 mission to
Abyssinia, where he married a local girl and served the ruler of
Tigre until the latter's death in 1816. Pearce's humorous account
of his life is particularly interesting in the details it gives of
the land and people of Ethiopia, then little known by Europeans. In
Volume 2, the situation in Abyssinia becomes dangerous and Pearce
decides to escape down the Nile. The journal ends abruptly in 1819,
a year before his death.
The traveller and antiquary Henry Salt (1780-1827) hoped to become
a portrait painter, but recognised his own limitations, and instead
entered the employment of Viscount Valentia, embarking with him on
an eastern tour in 1802. In 1805, Valentia sent him on a mission to
improve relations with the rulers of Abyssinia. After a second
expedition, this time on behalf of the British government, in which
he made observations and collections of the local flora and fauna,
he was appointed consul-general to Egypt, and in his spare time
carried out excavations at Thebes and Abu Simbel. This two-volume
work was published in 1834 by Salt's close friend, the painter J.
J. Halls (1776-1853). Volume 1 tells the story of Salt's early life
and his career up to the famous removal of the colossal statue of
Ramesses II ('Ozymandias') from Thebes to the British Museum in
1816.
The traveller and antiquary Henry Salt (1780-1827) hoped to become
a portrait painter, but recognised his own limitations, and instead
entered the employment of Viscount Valentia, embarking with him on
an eastern tour in 1802. In 1805, Valentia sent him on a mission to
improve relations with the rulers of Abyssinia. After a second
expedition, this time on behalf of the British government, in which
he made observations and collections of the local flora and fauna,
he was appointed consul-general to Egypt, and in his spare time
carried out excavations at Thebes and Abu Simbel. This two-volume
work was published in 1834 by Salt's close friend, the painter J.
J. Halls (1776-1853). Volume 2 describes Salt's later career in
Egypt, as a diplomat and especially as a pioneering archaeologist,
as well as his negotiations over the future of his own spectacular
collection of Egyptian artefacts.
This book was first published in 2007, a time of enormous change in
the field of optical spectrometry. Although the basic optical
principles remained unchanged, the design considerations were very
different and, in many cases, more demanding. Developments in
computer ray-tracing and computer-aided design coped with the extra
impositions and allowed the construction of a new generation of
spectrographs. The book covers the general principles of
spectrographic design at the time, and the practical and
engineering aspects of a broad range of spectrographs and
spectrometers. The book deals with materials and methods of
construction and includes suggestions for the choice of optical
table, the design of slit mechanisms, and adjustable mirror,
grating and lens mounts, with suggestions for the alignment and
calibration of the finished instrument.
Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case for
considering John James Audubon's and John Bachman's quadruped
essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of
Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After
completing The Birds of America (1826-38), Audubon began developing
his work on the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
volumes show an antebellum view of nature as fundamentally dynamic
and simultaneously grotesque and awe-inspiring. The quadruped
essays are rich with good stories about these mammals and the
humans who observe, pursue, and admire them. For help with the
science and the essays, Audubon enlisted the Reverend John Bachman
of Charleston, South Carolina. While he has been acknowledged as
coauthor of the essays, Bachman has received little attention as an
American nature writer. While almost all works that describe the
history of American nature writing include Audubon, Bachman shows
up only in a subordinate clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives
to restore Bachman's status as an important American nature writer.
Patterson and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the
voices of Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous
hunting stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and
bombast, and of Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist,
scientific detective, moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and
humorist. Drawing on all the primary and secondary evidence,
Patterson and Russell tell the story of the coauthors' fascinating,
conflicted relationship. This collection offers windows onto the
early United States and much forgotten lore, often in the form of
travel writing, natural history, and unique anecdotes, all told in
the compelling voices of Antebellum America's two leading
naturalists.
Every week between Easter and November, some 200 funfairs open in
cities and towns across every part of the UK. Over 4500 travelling
showmen and their families run them, a community deeply rooted in
historical tradition and strong family values. "Fairground
Attraction" has the intimacy of a family album. Through formal
portraits and candid observation we meet showmen not only at work
but also away from their brash, public arena in the private spaces
of their living trailers and winter-quarters and during their
family celebrations.
People and the Earth examines the numerous ways in which this
planet enhances and limits our lifestyles. The authors look at the
geologic restrictions on our ability to withdraw resources - food,
water, energy, and minerals - from the earth, the effect human
activity has on the Earth, and the lingering damage caused by
natural disasters. People and the Earth examines the basic
components of our interaction with this planet, provides a lucid,
scientific discussion of each issue, and speculates on what the
future may hold. It provides the fundamental concepts that will
enable us to make wise and conscientious choices on how to live our
day-to-day lives. Written with wit and remarkable insight, and
illustrated with numerous case histories, this book provides a
balanced view of the complex environmental issues facing our
civilization. People and the Earth is an ideal introductory
textbook and will also appeal to the general reader concerned with
our evolving relationship with the earth.
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