Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, 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. This beautifully illustrated book opens..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2017. Octavo, paperback, 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 birds. Packed with intriguing facts..... More
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
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 In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume American Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering and often underappreciated achievement as the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
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
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
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
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