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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780262014298
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Reference
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: the Words of Birds: North America, Britain, and Northern Europe
- Item Height
- 178mm
- Publisher
- MIT Press LTD
- Topic
- Writing & Reading, Wildlife
- Item Width
- 108mm
- Item Weight
- 272g
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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The distinctive and amazing songs and calls of birds- a meditation and a lexicon. A miraculous little book- a compressed encyclopedia of our fascination with avifauna. -The Nation A charming, funny, and eccentric book. -Times Literary Supplement An elegant tribute to the beauty of its subject. -Los Angeles Times Birds sing and call, sometimes in complex and beautiful arrangements of notes, sometimes in one-line repetitions that resemble a ringtone more than a symphony. Listening, we are stirred, transported, and even envious of birds' ability to produce what Shelley called profuse strains of unpremeditated art. And for hundreds of years, we have tried to write down what we hear when birds sing. Poets have put birdsong in verse (Thomas Nashe- Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo ) and ornithologists have transcribed bird sounds more methodically. Drawing on this history of bird writing, in Aaaaw to Zzzzzd John Bevis offers a lexicon of the words of birds. For tourists in Birdland, there could be no more charming phrasebook. Consulting it, we find seven distinct variations of hoo attributed to seven different species of owls, from a simple hoo to the more ambitious hoo hoo hoo-hoo, ho hoo hoo-hoo; the understated cheet of the tree swallow; the resonant kreeaaaaaaaaaaar of the Swainson's hawk; the modest peep peep peep of the meadow pipit. We learn that some people hear the Baltimore oriole saying here, here, come right here, dear and the yellowhammer saying a little bit of bread and no cheese. Bevis, a poet, frames his lexicons-one for North America and one for Britain and northern Europe-with an evocative appreciation of birds, birdsong, and human attempts to capture the words of birds in music and poetry. He also offers an engaging account of other methods of documenting birdsong-field recording, graphic notation, and mechanical devices including duck calls and the serinette, an instrument used to teach song tunes to songbirds. The singing of birds is nature at its most sublime, and words are our medium for expressing this sublimity. Aaaaw to Zzzzzd belongs in the bird lover's backpack and on the word lover's bedside table, an unexpected and sui generis pleasure.
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Publisher
MIT Press LTD
ISBN-13
9780262014298
eBay Product ID (ePID)
93413927
Product Key Features
Book Title
Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: the Words of Birds: North America, Britain, and Northern Europe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Writing & Reading, Wildlife
Publication Year
2010
Type
Reference
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
178mm
Item Width
108mm
Item Weight
272g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
The Mit Press
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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- m***c (1124)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book on cylinder heads was as described in the listing and supplied new at a very competitive price. Another excellent purchase from Speedyhen. The book was promptly dispatched and was very well packed. Communication from the seller was excellent. I would buy from this seller again with confidence. In my opinion, has to be a five-star seller. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐David Vizard's How to Port & Flow Test Cylinder Heads by David Vizard... (#364317545962)
- r***e (2779)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis book arrived in much better than "good" condition as described in the listing: I'd say "new and unread"! Excellent value, postage included in the price. Professionally packaged in recyclable cardboard and brown paper, very promptly dispatched and delivered via Royal Mail Tracked: 2 days purchase-to-delivery, so thanks for using Royal Mail ~ I always recommend them. Am very pleased with my purchase and happy to recommend this seller. Buy with confidence! Many thanks and best wishes, CJ.
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