The birds of Africa, volume one: Ostrich to falcons.
London: Academic Press, (1982. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Academic Press, (1982. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint and reviews the extensive literature on the subject. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. The nocturnal songs of insects are lures and warnings, full of risks and rewards for these tiny competitive performers. What moves crickets and katydids to sing, how they produce their distinctive sounds, how they hear the songs of..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Since 1968, Bernie Krause has travelled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species. Through his organization, Wild Sanctuary, he has collected the soundscapes of more than 2,000 different habitat types, marine..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. Octavo, with two CDs, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is a celebration of birdsong from January through December. The stories begin with a pileated woodpecker on New Year's Day; they unfold through the year, covering limpkins and scrub-jays in February in Florida, prairie birds..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Exciting new conceptual framework for looking at animal vocal communication and its evolution. This book will be a landmark text for all those interested in animal communication. Animal vocal communication explicitly avoids human-centred concepts and approaches and links communication to fundamental biological..... More
London: Harper Collins, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, CD included. Have you ever wondered what animal is making that noise in your garden? This book features a CD containing the songs and calls of animals in Britain. Covering common seals and otters to grasshoppers and frogs, it also looks at the..... More
Sydney: UNSW Press, (2002. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The third of a four volume survey of all plants- native and exotic- that can be cultivated in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and parts of Queensland. It provides a means to identifying garden plants and..... More
New York: Scribner, 2005. Octavo, remainder mark, fine copy in dustwrapper. Presents a detailed overview of birdsongs, including the different ranges and repertoires of various bird species, the mechanism by which songbirds pass their singing traits onto their offspring, and how songbird anatomy was formed through evolution. More
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1967. Octavo, text illustrations, grubby dustwrapper, signature. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, diagrams. Noise, as we usually think of it, is background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. In general terms, though, it is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. It includes extraneous energy..... More