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Birdscapes : birds in our imagination and experience /

What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, 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 variet...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mynott, Jeremy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
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505 0 |a Wondering about birds -- Amusive birds: attraction and association -- Seeing a difference -- Rarity value -- Beauty and the beholder -- The sense of sound -- A time and a place -- Wild nature: the politics of preference -- Naming matters -- Birds are good to think with -- Envoi: "Stirred for a bird." 
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