The Appreciation of Birds [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Halle, Louis J.

Edité par The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1989

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Fine unread condition gray cloth boards, baby blue spine, and black spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page Quote by Edward A. Wilson; Author Dedication; Foreword; Appendix; Bird Species Mentioned in the Text; List of Other Books by Louis J. Halle and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings. "Here is a bird book which begins where others leave off. Louis Halle's Appreciation is just that - a thoughtful and lucid celebration of the world of birds." - William Warner, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beautiful Swimmers. "Few writers past or present can equal Louis Halle. He enriches the experience of the most proficient birders and incites the rest of us to enhanced visual and intellectual adventures." - Charlton Ogburn, winner of the Burroughts Medal, for Winter Beach. "[Louis Halle] shows how reading can heighten one's observations and one's sensitivity to the bird world around us, and at the same time the story he tells does this in a striking and absorbing way. For he is part of that guild of writer-naturalists who are masters of elegant and pleasing prose. His sentences shine in the tradition of Thoreau and W.H. Hudson." - John Bonner, from the Foreword. "Stand atop an Alpine cliff as a golden eagle glides beneath you, so close you can see the individual feathers on its back. Look out over an Oregon field where more than a thousand wild geese are grazing, all moving slowly forward. Observe a pair of ospreys on a Long Island chimney. And listen, from a blacony in Geneva, to the song of a blackbird at dusk. Louis J. Halle, author of the timeless Spring in Washington, once more invites you to share his wonder and delight in the observation of birds. This time, however, he presents the birds not of one city but of the whole world. Carrying on the tradition of Thoreau, W.H. Hudson, and Edwin Way Teale, he now reveals the vision of a single society of birds that extends over all the oceans and continents. This immense vision contributes to our appreciation of everything in it, since all the world's species are interrelated, forming a single web of life. One of Halle's concerns is with the adaptations so many birds have made to our human world. In India, where the Hundu religion teaches that all life is sacred, the distinction between wild and domestic simply breaks down. The biggest cities there are rich with a "wildlife" that has no fear of our kind. Something like this is happening even in our Western cities. Throughout this book, Halle's probing curiosity about the natural world sparks the reader's imagination. How must the world look to a hawk that sees it through eyes far more developed than ours? Does the bower bird, which brings fresh flowers to replace those that have faded in the bower it has made for its mate, have a sense of beauty akin to our own?" - from the inner front jacket flap. N° de réf. du vendeur 008404

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Titre : The Appreciation of Birds [FIRST EDITION, ...

Éditeur : The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland

Date d'édition : 1989

Reliure : Hardcover

Illustrateur : Gregersen, Jens (drawings); Farlow, Martha (book design)

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Edition : 1st Edition