Author: PERRINS, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Birds: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World
Description: Pleasantville, NY, Reader's Digest. 1980, Re-issue. (ISBN: 0895770652) Hardcover. Ill.: Ad Cameron. Book, Originally published Elsevier, Lausanne in 1976 Birds is actually two books in one. it opens with a compreensive description of the diverse lives of birds. In the second part of Birds you'll meet all 176 bird families that have ever lived on earth, including those that are now extinct. Contains more than 1,000 spectacular color painting by nature artist Ad Cameron, depicting such scenes as aerial combat between golden eagles, cranes performing a wild courtship dance, and cuckoos evicting sparrows from the next. Cameron has captured the winged creatures of our planet in stunningly lifelike postures certain to enhance your enjoyment and appreciation of the natural world.416p. illus [col] Heavy [1.6 kg large format volume.]11 x 8.8 x 1.7"]] Name of previous owner on verso of title page, dj slightly sun faded, else fine. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: 0895770652 Ad Cameronbirds Ornithology


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