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Author:matthiessen, petereach month we recycle over 23 million books, saving over tonnes of books a year from going straight into landfill sitespublisher:north point presstigers in the snow
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matthiessen left off in his achievement of tlight pencil markings to text on a few pageslight foxing to cover and wear to edges and cornerseliot is generally recognized as one of the very few first-rate critical studies of arguably our finest poeteliot see oxfam website for delivery information read moreprevious owners name to title pageoxfam shop kendal paperback in good conditionbased on a series of lectures delivered at oxford university, this study begins where dr
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Gorgeously illustrated, woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, the bedside book of birds is for anyone who is aware of birds, and for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity has created to represent its soulbirds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirationsas divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the skythe song of the bird had given him a taste of paradise, where an instant is as a hundred years of earthly timewas the same true of time in hell, stevenson asked himselffrom the book: "stevenson remembered the story of a monk who had been distracted from his copy-work by the song of a birdthey've been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they've been worshipped, eaten, feared and lovedbirds figure charmingly and tellingly in the work of such nature writers as gilbert white, peter matthiessen, farley mowat and barry lopezhe went into the garden to listen more closely, and when he returned, after what he thought were only a few minutes, he discovered that a century had gone by, that his fellow monks were dead and his ink had turned to dustsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, gibson has spent fifteen years collecting the literary and artistic forms our affinity for birds has taken over the centuriesoxfam bookshop knutsford in this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher graeme gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birdsnor does gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the galapagos finches did for darwinbirds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as ovid, thomas hardy, kafka, thoreau and twhether as the christian dove, or quetzalcoatl the aztec plumed serpent or in plato s vision of the human soul growing wings and feathers, religion and philosophy have looked to birds as representatives of our better selves that part of us not bound to the earth
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