Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher?

A Bird's Eye History of the World

David Turner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2011
Summersdale Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-84953-145-0 (ISBN)

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This humorous and insightful guide delves into literature, science, religion, fine art and popular culture to reveal how a bird can be far more than the sum of its parts. Worshipped as gods and damned as agents of the Devil, birds have fostered scientific breakthroughs and even helped incite a war. This is full of brilliant curios.

Did the Cett’s Warbler inspire the opening notes of the last movement of Beethoven’s Second Symphony?

Who among a host of rivals wrote the best poem about the nightingale?

Is a James Bond film named after a duck?

Find out the answers to these ornithological conundrums and others in this engaging book that delves into literature, science, religion, fine art and popular culture to reveal how a bird can be far more than the sum of its feathered, winged and webbed parts. Worshipped as gods and damned as agents of the Devil in equal measure, birds have also fostered scientific breakthroughs and even helped provoke a war. This humorous and insightful guide is full of brilliant curios that even a magpie would envy.

David Turner is a journalist who has worked for the "Financial Times" andReuters. "

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.5.2011
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 221 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-84953-145-5 / 1849531455
ISBN-13	978-1-84953-145-0 / 9781849531450
Zustand	Neuware