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008    201026s2021    onca     b    001 0 eng   
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245 04 The bedside book of birds :|ban avian miscellany /
       |c[compiled by] Graeme Gibson ; with a new foreword by 
       Margaret Atwood. 
264  1 Toronto ;|aNew York :|bDoubleday,|c[2021] 
300    xix, 369 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist
       and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an 
       extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship 
       between humanity and birds. Birds have ever been the 
       symbols of humanity's highest aspirations. As divine 
       messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or 
       avatars of glorious song and colour, birds have stirred 
       our imaginations from the moment we first looked up into 
       the sky. Whether as the Christian dove, or the Aztec 
       Quetzalcoatl, or in Plato's representation of the human 
       soul growing wings and feathers, religion and philosophy 
       have looked to birds as representatives of our best selves
       --that part of us not bound to the earth. With the 
       devotion of a birder and hoarder of words, Gibson has 
       spent twenty years collecting the literary and artistic 
       forms our affinity for birds has taken over the centuries.
       Birds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales 
       and in literature by writers as diverse as Aesop, 
       Shakespeare, Poe, Coleridge, Borges, and Eliot. They've 
       been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they've been
       worshipped, eaten, feared, and loved. Nor does Gibson 
       forget the fascination birds hold for science, as the 
       Galapagos finches did for Darwin. Birds appear charmingly 
       and tellingly in the work of such naturalists as W.H. 
       Hudson, Peter Matthiessen, Farley Mowat, and Barry Lopez. 
       So intensely and universally are we drawn to birds, it's 
       small wonder that birdwatching is one of the most popular 
       activities in the English-speaking world. Gorgeously 
       illustrated and woven from centuries of human response to 
       the delights of the feathered tribes, The Bedside Book of 
       Birds is for everyone who is passionate about birds and 
       all they mean to humanity."--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Birds. 
650  0 Birds|vLiterary collections. 
650  0 Birds in art. 
650  7 Birds.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00832970 
650  7 Birds in art.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00833087 
655  7 Literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01921716 
655  7 Literary collections.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423811 
655  7 Literature.|2lcgft 
700 1  Gibson, Graeme,|d1934-2019,|eeditor. 
700 1  Atwood, Margaret,|d1939-|ewriter of foreword. 
994    C0|bGWV