Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
de Bernd Heinrich(Ed. Ecco) Isbn : 0060174471
23.76 €
The author of numerous bestselling and award-winning books, Bernd Heinrich is a professor of biology at the University of Vermont. He divides his time between Vermont and the forests of western Maine.

Rosie: My Rufous Hummingbird
de Arnette Heidcamp(Ed. Crown Pub) Isbn : 051770076X
15.2 €
The author of A Hummingbird in My House relates another true account of a hummingbird who took winter refuge in her upstate New York house. This time her visitor was a female Rufous hummingbird that was 2,000 miles from its home.

Extraordinary Pigeons
de Stephen Green-Armytage(Ed. Harry N. Abrams) Isbn : 0810946300
23.7 €
The author and photographer who opened a glorious window into the world of exotic birds with his hugely successful Extraordinary Chickens and its well-received follow-up, Extraordinary Pheasants, continues his startling photographic exploration with another singular and charming book. The striking images in Stephen Green-Armytage's first book showed that«the world of chickens is a world of wonders»(New York Times Book Review). Now this arresting new volume-a look at pigeon breeds from around...

The Birds of Azerbaijan
de Michael Patrikeev(Ed. Pensoft Publishers) Isbn : 954642207X
168.63 €
The Author (a graduate of St. Petersburg University) is a zoologist with the Nature Conservancy and the President of the Institute for the Conservation of World Biodiversity. Michael lived and worked in Azerbaijan for fourteen years. He is presently involved in bird studies and conservation activities in Canada, Texas, Mexico and Peru.

The Auks: Alcidae
de A.J. Gaston, etc., Ian L. Jones(Ed. Oxford University Press) Isbn : 0198540329
53.16 €
The auks are marine birds widespread in the cooler parts of northern seas. This book provides descriptions of the major features of the family and an engaging discussion of the adaptive significance of various traits.

Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of the Birds of America
de Duff Hart-Davis(Ed. Henry Holt Company) Isbn : 0805075682
26.12 €
The Audubon shelf is full to bursting, but so unusual was the naturalist-artist's adventurous life, and so magnificent is his achievement, room must be made for more. In this handsomely illustrated volume, Hart-Davis, a British chronicler of country life, focuses on Audubon's years in Edinburgh and London (1826-38), during which he oversaw the complex production of his unwieldy masterpiece, The Birds of America, a double-elephant folio comprising colored engravings on heavy sheets of paper measuring 39 1/2 by 29 1/2 inches. Writing with undisguised delight in his subject and drawing on Audubon's expressive journals, Hart-Davis provides a lively account of every phase of Audubon's audacious undertaking, from his often maddening campaign for subscriber support for his expensive project to th...

Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist And The Making Of The Birds Of America
de Duff Hart-Davis(Ed. Henry Holt Company) Isbn : 0805077758
16.15 €
The Audubon shelf is full to bursting, but so unusual was the naturalist-artist's adventurous life, and so magnificent is his achievement, room must be made for more. In this handsomely illustrated volume, Hart-Davis, a British chronicler of country life, focuses on Audubon's years in Edinburgh and London (1826-38), during which he oversaw the complex production of his unwieldy masterpiece, The Birds of America, a double-elephant folio comprising colored engravings on heavy sheets of paper measuring 39 1/2 by 29 1/2 inches. Writing with undisguised delight in his subject and drawing on Audubon's expressive journals, Hart-Davis provides a lively account of every phase of Audubon's audacious undertaking, from his often maddening campaign for subscriber support for his expensive project to th...

Audubon's Elephant: The story of John James Audubon's epic struggle to publish The Birds of America
de Duff Hart-Davis(Ed. Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group ) Isbn : 0753817888
10.61 €
The Audubon shelf is full to bursting, but so unusual was the naturalist-artist's adventurous life, and so magnificent is his achievement, room must be made for more. In this handsomely illustrated volume, Hart-Davis, a British chronicler of country life, focuses on Audubon's years in Edinburgh and London (1826-38), during which he oversaw the complex production of his unwieldy masterpiece, The Birds of America, a double-elephant folio comprising colored engravings on heavy sheets of paper measuring 39 1/2 by 29 1/2 inches. Writing with undisguised delight in his subject and drawing on Audubon's expressive journals, Hart-Davis provides a lively account of every phase of Audubon's audacious undertaking, from his often maddening campaign for subscriber support for his expensive project to th...

Audubon's Elephant: The story of John James Audubon's epic struggle to publish The Birds of America
de Duff Hart-Davis(Ed. Weidenfeld Nicolson) Isbn : 029782967X
22.43 €
The Audubon shelf is full to bursting, but so unusual was the naturalist-artist's adventurous life, and so magnificent is his achievement, room must be made for more. In this handsomely illustrated volume, Hart-Davis, a British chronicler of country life, focuses on Audubon's years in Edinburgh and London (1826-38), during which he oversaw the complex production of his unwieldy masterpiece, The Birds of America, a double-elephant folio comprising colored engravings on heavy sheets of paper measuring 39 1/2 by 29 1/2 inches. Writing with undisguised delight in his subject and drawing on Audubon's expressive journals, Hart-Davis provides a lively account of every phase of Audubon's audacious undertaking, from his often maddening campaign for subscriber support for his expensive project to th...

The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland
de J.T.R. Sharrock(Ed. Poyser) Isbn : 0856610186
35.43 €
The Atlas plots the results of the survey organised by the BTO and the IWC during the yeats 1968-72. Over 250 maps show the distribution of 218 species.