The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
by Gibson, Graeme
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0385660480
- ISBN 13
- 9780385660488
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About This Item
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, Gibson, Graeme. Published by Doubleday Canada, 2005. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xiii, 369 pp. with colour illustrations; illustrated endpapers. Green cloth boards. In fine, unread condition; light top edge ruffle to unclipped jacket which is otherwise fine.
"… an unprecedented and enchanting treasure trove of paintings, drawings, poems, essays, and scientific observations, beautifully captures the interest and emotions birds evoke. The illustrations range from early cave paintings to Audubon's famous portraits to abstract works created in the twentieth century. There are writings by Shakespeare, Coleridge, Poe, Ted Hughes, and Jorge Luis Borges, among many others. Excerpts from famous scientific works, including Darwin's observations on the tameness of the Galapagos Islands' birds, and popular nature writers as W. H. Hudson, Peter Matthiessen, Farley Mowat, and Barry Lopez."
"… an unprecedented and enchanting treasure trove of paintings, drawings, poems, essays, and scientific observations, beautifully captures the interest and emotions birds evoke. The illustrations range from early cave paintings to Audubon's famous portraits to abstract works created in the twentieth century. There are writings by Shakespeare, Coleridge, Poe, Ted Hughes, and Jorge Luis Borges, among many others. Excerpts from famous scientific works, including Darwin's observations on the tameness of the Galapagos Islands' birds, and popular nature writers as W. H. Hudson, Peter Matthiessen, Farley Mowat, and Barry Lopez."
Synopsis
Graeme Gibson is the acclaimed author of Five Legs, Perpetual Motion and Gentleman Death . He is a past president of PEN Canada and the recipient of both the Harbourfront Festival Prize and the Toronto Arts Award, and is a member of the Order of Canada. He has been a council member of World Wildlife Fund Canada, and is chairman of the Pelee Island Bird Observatory. Gibson lives in Toronto with his spouse of thirty-five years, writer Margaret Atwood.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4252
- Title
- The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
- Author
- Gibson, Graeme
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385660480
- ISBN 13
- 9780385660488
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- October 18, 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- MEMOIR AND BIO; SCIENCE AND NATURE; ART;
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