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| 001 - Número de Control |
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030391 |
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160804s20052005nyua b 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - ISBN |
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| ISBN |
9780385514835 |
| 050 00 - Número de Clasificación de la Biblioteca del Congreso de (USA-LC) |
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| No. de Clasificación |
QL676 |
| No. del ítem |
.B454 2005 |
| 082 1# - Número de Clasificación Decimal Dewey |
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| No. de Clasificación |
598 GIB |
| No. de la Edición |
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| 100 1# - Entrada Principal - Nombre Personal |
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| Nombre Personal |
Gibson, Graeme |
| 245 04 - TÍTULO |
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| Título del material |
The bedside book of birds : |
| Resto del Título |
an avian miscellany |
| Mención de responsabilidad |
/ Graeme Gibson ; book design by CS Richardson. |
| 260 ## - Publicación, Distribución, etc. (Pie de Imprenta) |
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| Lugar de Publicación, Distribución, etc. |
New York |
| Nombre de la editorial, distribuidor, etc. |
: Nan A. Talese |
| Fecha de Publicación, Distribución, etc. |
, 2005. |
| 300 ## - Descripción Física |
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| Extensión |
369 p. |
| Otros detalles físicos |
: illus. |
| Dimensiones |
; 25 cm. |
| 504 ## - Nota de Bibliografía, etc. |
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| Nota de Bibliografía, etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-364) and index. |
| 520 3# - Resumen, etc. |
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| Nota de resumen, etc. |
In this assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds. Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As 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 sky. Whether 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. With 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 centuries. Birds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as Ovid, Thomas Hardy, Kafka, Thoreau and T.S. Eliot. They've been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they've been worshipped, eaten, feared and loved. Nor does Gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the Galapagos finches did for Darwin. Birds figure charmingly and tellingly in the work of such nature writers as Gilbert White, Peter Matthiessen, Farley Mowat and Barry Lopez. 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 soul. From The Bedside Book of Birds ~ Stevenson remembered the story of a monk who had been distracted from his copy-work by the song of a bird. He 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 dust. The song of the bird had given him a taste of Paradise, where an instant is as a hundred years of earthly time. Was the same true of time in hell, Stevenson asked himself. |
| 546 ## - Nota de Idioma |
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| Nota de idioma |
English. |
| 650 #4 - Entradas Secundarias - Términos temáticos |
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| Tópico o nombre Geográfico |
Birds |
| 650 #4 - Entradas Secundarias - Términos temáticos |
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| Tópico o nombre Geográfico |
Birds |
| Subdivisión general |
-Literary collections |
| 650 #4 - Entradas Secundarias - Términos temáticos |
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| Tópico o nombre Geográfico |
Birds in art |
| 942 ## - TIPO DE MATERIAL |
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| Tipo de Material |
Libro - Monografía |
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