France: travellers' nature guides.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. Descriptions of places to visit are accompanied by maps and photographs of animals and plants. More
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Freshwater life: Britain and Northern Europe.
London: Harper Collins, 2007. Octavo, paperback, Collins Pocket Guides Series. Covering northern Europe, including the mainly freshwater environment of the Baltic Sea, this illustrated guide describes over 900 species of plant and animal visible with the naked eye, from damsels and dragons to beetles and molluscs. Each species is illustrated..... More
Elephant slaves and pampered parrots: exotic animals in Eighteenth Century Paris.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, from the vast literature on exotic animals and the inner workings of the oiseleurs' (birdsellers') guild to how the animals were transported, housed and cared for. More
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