Ferdinand Bauer's Remarkable Birds
ISBN: HB: 9781851246250,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
May 2024
240 pp., 33,0x22,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
240 pp., 33,0x22,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
A richly illustrated volume, which reproduces one of the finest collections of eighteenth-century ornithological art in its entirety.
In 1786, Austrian natural history artist Ferdinand Bauer traveled to Italy and the Levant. The watercolors he creat...
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£50.00
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Field Guide to the Connecticut River
From New Hampshire to Long Island Sound
ISBN: FLEXI: 9780300264203,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 752 colour illus.
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 752 colour illus.
The first comprehensive natural history guide to the Connecticut River and its environs, with more than 750 illustrations.
The Connecticut River, New England's longest and most historic river, originates in northern New Hampshire and wends more tha...
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£25.00
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Wingsnappers
Lessons from an Exuberant Tropical Bird
ISBN: HB: 9780300269413,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
Birds, hormones, and extraordinary behavior: The story of the tiny but mighty golden-collared manakin of Panama.
This book is the story of a remarkable bird, the golden-collared manakin (Manacus vitellinus) of Panama. Males of this species perform...
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Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast
Including the Jersey Shore, Cape May, Delaware Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and the Outer Banks
ISBN: PB: 9780300246469,
Yale University Press,
March 2021
448 pp., 20,3x12,7 cm, 721 colour illus.
448 pp., 20,3x12,7 cm, 721 colour illus.
The Outer Banks of North Carolina and the beaches of the Mid-Atlantic Coast are among the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. This book is a richly illustrated field guide that surveys the geology, environmental history, natural h...
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£27.50
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Birds
An Anthology
ISBN: HB: 9781851245291,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
June 2020
272 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 25 black&white illus.
272 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's "full-hearted evensong of joy illimited", Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts "dash round in circles" and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying "across the be...
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£16.99
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In Search of Meadowlarks
Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land
ISBN: HB: 9780300237146,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 black&white illus.
With predictions of a human population of more than nine billion by the middle of this century and eleven billion by 2100, we stand at a crossroads in our agricultural evolution. In this clear and engaging yet scientifically rigorous book, wildlife b...
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£27.50
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Flights of Passage
An Illustrated Natural History of Bird Migration
ISBN: HB: 9780300247442,
Yale University Press,
March 2020
288 pp., 28,7x23,4 cm, 300 colour illus.
288 pp., 28,7x23,4 cm, 300 colour illus.
The vast transcontinental journeys made every year by millions of feathered migrants were not known to naturalists before the late nineteenth century. Even today, while cutting-edge technology such as geolocators and isotope analysis helps us map the...
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£32.50
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How to See Birds
An Enthusiast's Guide
For sale in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan only!
When we see a bird, do we actually notice it? Many of us don't. But in Br...
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£20.00
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Fires of Life
Endothermy in Birds and Mammals
ISBN: HB: 9780300227161,
Yale University Press,
August 2019
384 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 60 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 60 black&white illus.
This pioneering work investigates why endothermy, or "warm-bloodedness", evolved in birds and mammals, despite its enormous energetic costs. Arguing that single-cause hypotheses to explain the origins of endothermy have stalled research since the 197...
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£30.00
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Natural Encounters
Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons
ISBN: HB: 9780300243482,
Yale University Press,
July 2019
304 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 28 black&white illus.
304 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 28 black&white illus.
In this "personal encyclopedia of nature's seasons", lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year‑long journey through the seasons as he describes the...
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£25.00
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