What draws us to the beauty of a peaeock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about ourselves? Birdscapes is a unique meditation on the variety of human responses to birds, from antiquity to today, and from casual observers to the globe-trotting "twitchers" who sometimes risk life, limb, and marriages simply to add new species to their "life lists."

Drawing extensively on literature, history, philosophy, and science, Jeremy Mynott puts his own experiences as a birdwatcher in a rich cultural context. His sources range from the familiarThoreau, Keats, Darwin, and Audubonto the unexpectedBenjamin Franklin, Giacomo Puccini, Oscar Wilde, and Monty Python. Just as unusual are the extensive illustrations, which explore our perceptions and representations of birds through images such as national emblems, women's hats, professional sports logos, and a Christmas biscuit tin, as well as classics of bird art. Each chapter takes up a new themefrom rarity, beauty, and sound to conservation, naming, and symbolismand is set in a new place, as Mynott travels from his "home patch" in Suffolk, England, to
his "away patch" in New York City's Central Park, as well as to Russia, Australia, and Greece.

Conservational, playful, and witty, Birdscapes gently leads us to reflect on large questions about our relation to birds and the natural world. It encourages birders to see their pursuits in a broader human context and it shows nonbirders what they may be missing.
Jeremy Mynott has been watching, listening to, and thinking about birdsand birders for much of his life. He is the former chief executive of Cambridge University Press.

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Brief Guide to Charles Darwin

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Guide to the ideas as well as the man who was recently voted one of the greatest Britons of all time, and one of the most influential thinkers ever

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Charles Darwin Power of Place v. 2

The Power of Place

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The second half of Charles Darwin's life was inextricably interwoven with the story of "The Origin of the Species" and this concluding volume of his biography looks closely at the wider publishing world of Victorian England and the different audiences which responded to Darwin's ideas. Darwin relied heavily upon his friends and family, his publishing contacts, his correspondence network, and the expanding geographical and economic horizons of Victorian Britain to distribute his views to the furthest corners of Empire. This biography considers the Darwinian revolution from his point of view and what it was like to become a scientific celebrity.

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Charles Darwin Voyaging v.1

Voyaging

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Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Only now, with the publication of Voyaging, the first of two volumes that will constitute the definitive biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as a man and a scientist.

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Charles Darwin

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Fascinating collection of letters written and received by Darwin during the voyage on The Beagle illustrated with original watercolours by the ship`s artist, Conrad Martens

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Charles Darwin Leben und Werk

Würdigung eines großen Naturforschers und kritische Betrachtung seiner Lehre

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Vor 200 Jahren wurde einer der größten und bis heute umstrittenen Naturforscher geboren: Charles Darwin. Der Autor Wolfgang Schaumann schildert in seiner kritischen

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