Winged Words
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Köp båda 2 för 492 krPeter Thonemann, Books of the Year 2018, The Times Literary Supplement Jeremy Mynott's Birds in the Ancient World is an absolute joy, beautifully written and gloriously illustrated.
Mathew Lyons, History Today [A] superb book ... Mynott quotes [...] 120 authors in total, some translated into English for the first time. All the translations are Mynott's own. The period covered is approximately 700 BC to AD 300 and, since Mynott's approach is thematic, each chapter ranges pretty freely across those thousand years. It is, without doubt, a major achievement and a brilliantly sustained exercise in what Mynott [...] calls 'thinking with birds' ... We are fortunate to have in Mynott, who is both an ornithologist and a classicist, the perfect guide for such explorations.
Roger Riddington, British Birds An astonishing combination of knowledge and sheer readability ... a copiously and richly illustrated review ... I think we should be grateful to Jeremy Mynott for this wonderful book, which both illuminates that understanding and broadens our knowledge.
Mike McCarthy, Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine [A] stunning new book ... reading this splendid study, I experienced some of the excitement that humanists must have felt at entering into a lost world ... Beautifully produced, informed by wonderful scholarship, Birds in the Ancient World embodies the Renaissance spirit, as a model of humane and civilised learning.
Mark Cocker, The Spectator It is [...] thought-provoking, highly readable and exhaustive. Mynott has made an enormous effort to trawl the whole of the classics for bird references. The materials unearthed are far greater than anything previously considered and an appendix supplying potted biographies of the Greek and Roman authors discussed in the book includes more than 100 names ... Perhaps the pre-eminent achievement of the book is not its fastidious examination of classical birds, but the way it pans backwards from the avian minutiae to give us a much broader vision of the two great civilisations.
Tim Birkhead, Archives of National History This scholarly, yet readable and fascinating book presents a detailed account of how our current obsession with birds began ... beautifully produced volume, illustrated throughout with striking colour images ... Mynott's book brings to life the variety of ancient scholars and artists who were inspired by birds. The sheer volume of material must, one feels, have been daunting, yet Mynott has processed it in a sensitive and logical fashion ... this definitive and original account of birds in the ancient world will serve as an invaluable reference for all subsequent historians of ornithology, and indeed, zoology as a whole.
Ruth Padel, author of Darwin - A Life in Poems, The Mara Crossing, and In and Out of the Mind A book the world has been waiting for, rich, scrupulously organised, imaginative, beautifully written, and driven by a double passion. On the one hand, for bi...
Jeremy Mynott is the author of Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience (2009), a book exploring the variety of human responses to birds, described by reviewers as 'the finest book ever written about why we watch birds' (Guardian) and 'a wonderful rumination on birds and birders through space and time for anyone interested in our relationship with nature' (THES). He has also published an edition and translation of Thucydides in the series 'Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought' and, more recently, Knowing your Place, an account of the wildlife in a tiny Suffolk hamlet. He has broadcast on radio and television, and is a regular reviewer for the TLS and wildlife magazines, a founder member of 'New Networks for Nature', the former Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Birds in the Natural World 1: The Seasons 2: Weather 3: Time 4: Soundscapes Birds as a Resource 5: Hunting and Fowling 6: Cooking and Eating 7: Farming Living with Birds 8: Captivity and Domestication 9: Sports and Entertainments 10: Relationships and Responsibilities Invention and Discovery 11: Wonders: travellers' tales and tall stories 12: Medicine: folklore and science 13: Observation and Enquiry: the beginnings of ornithology Thinking with Birds 14: Omens and Auguries 15: Magic and Metamorphosis 16: Signs and Symbols Birds as Intermediaries 17: Fabulous Creatures 18: Messengers and Mediators 19: Mother Earth 20: Epilogue: then and now Appendix: some bird lists from ancient sources Biographies of authors quoted References Bibliography Bibliography Acknowledgements and picture credits