Author: John GouldPublisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains
Author: John GouldPublisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains
Author: John GouldCentury of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains
Author: A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains
Author: John Gould (ornithologue.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A Century of Birds From the Himalaya Mountains
Author: John 1804-1881 GouldPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014204356
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Origins of Himalayan Studies
Author: David M. WaterhousePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415312158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and published extensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics. Contributors from leading historians of Nepal and South Asia and from specialists in Buddhist studies, art history, linguistics, ornithology and ethnography, critically examine Hodgson's life and achievement within the context of his contribution to scholarship. Many of the drawings photographed for this book have not previously been published.
Bird Migration across the Himalayas
Author: Herbert H. T. PrinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107114713
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The first reference to demonstrate how birds survive the high-altitude Central Asian Flyway and the threats to this unique migration.
The Business of Nature
Author: Roslyn RussellPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642276994
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In 1838, John Gould and his wife, Elizabeth, left behind their family and home in London to travel to the far-flung colony of Van Diemen's Land, from where Gould would travel around the mainland to observe the native fauna. Gould's artists - Elizabeth foremost among them - would depict these creatures in exquisite lithographs, accompanied by Gould's commentary. With all the acumen of a shrewd Victorian entrepreneur, Gould established a thriving business that took him into the world of the British aristocracy and the scientific elite. His is a tale of enduring love and of a man's unending ability to see beauty in nature, despite the greatest of life's tragedies.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas
Author: Bikram GrewalPublisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
ISBN: 9781780094243
Category : Bird watching
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This is the new edition of a popular guide and it is fully updated with all the latest names and recently recognised species. The Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range, are a birdwatcher's paradise. Many of its species are high altitude specialists, including Tibetan and Himalayan Snowcocks, Snow Partridge, Ibisbill, Tibetan Sandgrouse, Hume's Groundpecker, Tibetan Snowfinch and Great Rosefinch. The area comprises a mosaic of different habitats which host a huge range of avian species, with families such as raptors, gamebirds, flycatchers and warblers particularly well represented. 252 of the Himalayas' most interesting and spectacular birds are featured in this concise and easy-to-use guide, and each species is illustrated with a colour photograph which is accompanied by text giving key information on identification, habitat and distribution.
The Art of the Bird
Author: Roger J. LedererPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667505X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style—from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould’s nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson’s ethereal watercolors—this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.