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Parrot Culture : Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird /
After completing his conquest of the Persian empire, Alexander the Great maneuvered his army across the Hindu Kush and into India. During his two years there, he traveled from dry frigid mountains to humid tropical lowlands and then back across one of the most punishing deserts on the planet. He fou...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: Circa 40 Million B.C.
- Chapter 1: Invasion of the Parrots
- Chapter 2: Mysteries and Marvels
- Chapter 3: Return of the Parrots
- Chapter 4: Unhappy Bird!
- Chapter 5: Dead Parrot Sketch
- Chapter 6: Extinction and Beyond
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments