Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white photographs, illustrations, maps. Provides an engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, describing the visionary and often-controversial personalities who have influenced the study of birds, and the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked... More about Ten thousand birds: ornithology since Darwin
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs. "An exquisitely beautiful book ...These stories about birds are ultimately reflections on the curious nature of humanity itself"- Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk. There is no denying that many people are crazy for... More about Birdmania: a remarkable passion for birds
New York: Dover Publications, 2017. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. At the turn of the 20th century, John Burroughs ranked among America's most popular authors. The distinguished naturalist possessed a special gift for sharing his close observations in an engaging style that combines scientific accuracy with a grand poetic expression. This... More about Wake-robin: a collection of essays about the birds
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume American Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering and often underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds of the North... More about Alexander Wilson: the Scot who founded American ornithology
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations. Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory or the hummingbird with paradise? The answers are here... More about Birds: myth, lore and legend
New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. In this charming book, Billy Collins, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have... More about Bright wings: an illustrated anthology of poems about birds
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. The author records the genesis and gestation of the double-elephant folio, and uses contemporary sources to illuminate an extraordinary character. More about Audubon's elephant: the story of John James Audubon's epic struggle to publish The Birds of America
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, illustrations. A chronicle of the efforts of Robert Allen Porter, an ornithologist with the National Audubon Society, to find the only remaining whooping crane nesting site in North America in an effort to save the nearly extinct species. More about The man who saved the Whooping crane: the Robert Porter Allen story