The Bird Man of Brisbane
The Bird Man of Brisbane

Author: Louis Pigott

Publisher: Boolarong Press

Published: 2012-03-14

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 1921555629

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When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds, profusely illustrated with hand-coloured lithographs. Acting as his own publisher from 1865 onwards, Diggles produced the first substantial zoological work to commence publication in Australia. The compilation and content of this rare work of art and natural history is examined here in the light of Diggles’ life and times, as well as his ornithological predecessors and contemporaries. So too is his role in establishing the first scientific society and museum in Queensland. Also presented in this lavishly illustrated publication are colour plates from his bird book, and some of his original bird paintings for the first time. Diggles was indeed the preeminent birdman of his day, not only in Brisbane but also Queensland if not Australia-wide. Dr Rod Fisher Brisbane historian

The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer
The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer

Author: Eric Hansen

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2016-09-21

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0525433457

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Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies topless dancers on a bird-watching expedition in California. From the Maldives to Sacramento, from Cannes to Washington Heights, Eric Hansen has a way of getting himself into the most sacred ceremonies and the most candid conversations.

The Birdman
The Birdman

Author: Willemien Min

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9780525444138

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One day a musician with a face like a bird comes to town and the children have a magical experience as they fly with their toy birds to an island of birds.

The Bird Man
The Bird Man

Author: Isabella Tree

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780091895792

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Gould is widely regarded as the father of ornithology in Australia, and The Birds of Australia (1848) as the greatest of his 18 works. Isabella Tree's lively biography reveals a story of discovery, ambition and betrayal, touching on some of the greatest wonders of the Victorian era, including Gould's crucial role in Darwin's theory.

The Birdman
The Birdman

Author: Melvin Burgess

Publisher: Andersen Press (UK)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780862649760

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When Jarvis buys a robin from the mysterious Birdman with plans to free it, he finds it harder to let the lovely bird go then he thought.

The Birdman
The Birdman

Author: Veronika Martenova Charles

Publisher: Tundra Books

Published: 2006-09-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0887767400

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Noor Nobi is a broken man, wandering the streets of Calcutta with no reason to live. His three children, snatched from him in a cruel accident, were everything he worked for and loved. But one day, he enters a crowded market and sees a bird, caged and frightened and sick. With very little money in his pocket, he waits until the vendor is closing up. Quickly, Noor Nobi bargains and, happy to get anything for the sickly thing, the vendor accepts his offer. For some reason Noor Nobi cannot explain, it is important for him to nurse the bird back to health. When it is finally able to fly, Noor Nobi takes his bird to a big Banyan tree and releases it. Only then is he able to weep and fully grieve for his children. Before Noor Nobi knows it, he is back at work and taking his weekly earnings to the market where he continues to buy, heal, and free as many birds as he can. Crowds gather; some laugh and say he is crazy, some stand reverently, some don’t know what to think. But Noor Nobi’s kindness saves a growing number of birds, and the birds, in turn, give him new purpose. Author Veronika Martenova Charles read a short newspaper article about the “Birdman” of Calcutta and her imagination took flight. She traveled to India, found Noor Nobi, and witnessed the freeing of the birds for herself. The Birdman is a touching, true story, tenderly illustrated by Annouchka Gravel Galouchko and Stéphan Daigle. It is accompanied by an afterword, diary entries, and photographs of the author’s experience.

The Godfathers of London
The Godfathers of London

Author: M. C. Dutton

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1783061650

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A Sikh by birth. An East Ender by choice. Meet the formidable DS Singh. Following three apparently unlinked, but gruesome, murders in the East End of London, Police Detective Sergeant Jazwinder Singh is once more on the case. Jazz has a reputation for getting into murderous situations so when his rookie DC Ash Kumar disappears – the race is on. The underbelly of society who don’t talk to police, talk to Jazz. Together Jazz, his reluctant snout Mad Pete, who seems to have a finger in every dodgy pie in the East End, and DI Boomer work to protect London and solve the horrific murders. Never one to avoid trouble, Jazz heads straight into murky and lawless areas to take on the Godfathers of London. Someone had to do it – and someone is going to die. The Godfathers of London is the the second in a series of multi-cultural thrillers featuring detective DS Singh. The first, The Singhing Detective, is currently being made into a film, due to be screened in December 2013