The Keartons
Author: John Bevis
Publisher: Uniformbooks
Published: 2016-05-17
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781910010099
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Author: John Bevis
Publisher: Uniformbooks
Published: 2016-05-17
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781910010099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Brower
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0816654786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the emergence of wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals.
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780547076751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard and Cherry reasoned they might hide from birds in the belly of an ox. Concealed in the hollow animal, the brothers were able to photograph birds in their natural habitats. Their results were published in 1895, marking a new era in natural history.
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 582
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Michler Chapman
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Palle B. Petterson
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-08-12
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0786485957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cinematographers and directors who shot film in wilderness areas at the turn of the 19th century are some of the unsung heroes of documentary film-making. Apart from severe weather conditions, these men and women struggled with heavy and cumbersome equipment in some of the most unforgiving locales on the planet. This groundbreaking study examines nature, wildlife and wilderness filming from all angles. Topics covered include the beginnings of film itself, the first attempts at nature and expedition filming, technical developments of the period involving cameras and lenses, and the role film has played in wilderness preservation. The individual contributions of major figures are discussed throughout, and a filmography lists hundreds of nature films from the period.
Author: John Bevis
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010-08-20
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 0262288958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe distinctive and amazing songs and calls of birds: a meditation and a lexicon. “A miraculous little book: a compressed encyclopedia of our fascination with avifauna.” —The Nation “A charming, funny, and eccentric book.” —Times Literary Supplement “An elegant tribute to the beauty of its subject.” —Los Angeles Times Birds sing and call, sometimes in complex and beautiful arrangements of notes, sometimes in one-line repetitions that resemble a ringtone more than a symphony. Listening, we are stirred, transported, and even envious of birds' ability to produce what Shelley called “profuse strains of unpremeditated art.” And for hundreds of years, we have tried to write down what we hear when birds sing. Poets have put birdsong in verse (Thomas Nashe: “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo”) and ornithologists have transcribed bird sounds more methodically. Drawing on this history of bird writing, in Aaaaw to Zzzzzd John Bevis offers a lexicon of the words of birds. For tourists in Birdland, there could be no more charming phrasebook. Consulting it, we find seven distinct variations of “hoo” attributed to seven different species of owls, from a simple hoo to the more ambitious hoo hoo hoo-hoo, ho hoo hoo-hoo; the understated cheet of the tree swallow; the resonant kreeaaaaaaaaaaar of the Swainson's hawk; the modest peep peep peep of the meadow pipit. We learn that some people hear the Baltimore oriole saying “here, here, come right here, dear” and the yellowhammer saying “a little bit of bread and no cheese.” Bevis, a poet, frames his lexicons—one for North America and one for Britain and northern Europe—with an evocative appreciation of birds, birdsong, and human attempts to capture the words of birds in music and poetry. He also offers an engaging account of other methods of documenting birdsong—field recording, graphic notation, and mechanical devices including duck calls and the serinette, an instrument used to teach song tunes to songbirds. The singing of birds is nature at its most sublime, and words are our medium for expressing this sublimity. Aaaaw to Zzzzzd belongs in the bird lover's backpack and on the word lover's bedside table, an unexpected and sui generis pleasure.
Author: Donald Culross Peattie
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1595341633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Gathering of Birds is an anthology containing selected prose about birds by nineteen famous authors, such as Hudson, Audubon, and Thoreau, and includes brief biographical information about each. The New York Times called the collection “a delightful ‘gathering’ that Mr. Peattie has presented, and his own contributions to the book make it something new and valuable in this field.”