The Bedside Book of Birds - An Avian Miscellany by Graeme Gibson

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Featuring a new foreword by Margaret Atwood!In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson offers an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.From the Aztec plumed serpent to the Christian dove to Plato's vision of the human soul growing wings, religion and philosophy use birds to represent our aspirational selves. Winged creatures appear in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as Ovid, Thoreau, and T. S. Eliot. They've been omens, allegories, and guides- they've been worshipped, eaten, and feared. Birds figure tellingly in the work of such nature writers as Gilbert White and Peter Matthiessen, and are synonymous with the science of Darwin. Gibson spent years collecting this gorgeously illustrated celebration of centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes. The Bedside Book of Birds is for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity creates to represent its soul.

  • Product Features

    • Author - Graeme Gibson
    • Publisher - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    • Publication Date - 03-30-2021
    • Page Count - 392
    • Hardcover
    • Adult
    • Nature & Wildlife
    • Product Dimensions - 6.3 W x 9.3 H x 1.2 D
    • ISBN - 9780385547130

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3 years ago
from Columbus Ohio

I love this book!

Really in depth with the history of human relationships with birbs.

Recommends this product

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4 years ago
from NC

Incredible artwork

This book is so beautiful for the most part and the perceptions people have had of birds through the centuries is so interesting. The illustrations are breathtaking.

Recommends this product

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4 years ago
from Michigan

Mixed bag, rather dark

I bought this expensive new book on the spur of the moment at the recommendation of my sister who said she was reading it too. In hindsight, it was rash to purchase this book without as is best, reading reviews more closely and, ideally, picking it up and reading some of it first. It is not a cheerful or uplifting book or systematically informative survey of birds. It's more a eclectic grab bag of random, dark, violent encounters between birds and people. A good amount of poetry is mixed in and many prose works are sampled in an unsatisfactory manner; rather as if, just because a bird is mentioned, the excerpt is justified. Some of the selections are interesting and invite you to further reading.

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