Our use of birds is well-known – feathers for hats as well as for nests, birds deified, personified, caged, used for food and for hunting. Less well know is how birds interact with us. (Not all can be so lucky as Lear’s Old Man with a Beard).
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
(author)
£25.00
Edition:Hardback978024146049803/03/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
-
Debut from an emerging young poet, concerned with the loss of species and what it means to be human in the midst of this destruction.
The Sun on the Tip of a Snail’s Shell
Paperback £10.00 -
Mastering the art of minimal intervention. We don't know if Mr McGregor would approve but Dowding is THE no-dig guru, pioneering this approach and growing vast and succulent vegetables since... read more
-
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land: AL was a philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester and conservationist, and a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He was the ... read more
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Paperback £9.99 -
Drawing on advances in soil ecology, GM argues that the future for food could alter the world in a good way.