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作者介绍
  • 西蒙·巴恩斯
  • Simon Barnes
  • 西蒙·巴恩斯(Simon Barnes)是多次获奖的《纽约时报》前首席体育记者。他还是一位小说家、自然作家和骑手,著有20多本书,其中包括畅销书《如何成为一个糟糕的观鸟者》(HOW TO BE A BAD BIRDWATCHER)。
  • 《鸟类的意义》
  • THE MEANING OF BIRDS
  • 图书类型:自然写作
  • 者:Simon Barnes
  • 出 版 社:Head of Zeus
    代理公司:ANA/Lauren
    页    数:352页
    出版时间:2016年
    代理地区:中国大陆
    审读资料:电子稿
  • 人:Rights      浏览次数:609          视频资料

内容简介

这本书赞颂了鸟类和它们帮助人类理解自己生活的世界的能力,是给铁杆粉丝或业余爱好者的完美礼物,也是给任何关心自然世界的人的礼物。

一位充满激情、知识渊博的自然观察者和作家探索了鸟类如何实现飞行的奇迹;鸟儿为什么歌唱;鸟儿如何让我们感知一年四季;鸟儿的存在如何让我们了解它们的栖居地。《鸟类的意义》探索了羽毛的用途,猛禽的戏剧,野鸡的滥杀,鹅的不忠。从加拉帕戈斯群岛上的嘲鸫(它曾引导查尔斯·达尔文提出了进化论),到不断变化的迁徙模式(它提醒我们注意当代气候变化的现实),西蒙·巴恩斯探索了鸟类的内在奇迹,以及鸟类帮助我们理解生命意义的无数方式。
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媒体评论

“巴恩斯将这种关于鸟类与人类关系的有趣的探索与一种博学者的惊奇感融合在一起……这是一本丰富的书,巴恩斯毫不掩饰地分享了他对‘任何有观鸟血统的人’的喜爱。”
——《出版者周刊》(Publishers Weekly)

”Finely illustrated and wonderfully tactile “
― NFU Countryside

”A well written, heartfelt book about the wonders of birds “
― Nudge Book

”He is a fine professional writer who enjoys his craft “
― Bird Watch

”Barnes' fascination with the avian world is at the heart of this book, a passion shared through engaging, often lively and always conversational text “
― BBC Wildlife

”Eclectic and often witty volume that aims to show how birds live their lives and in doing so, how they've touched on ours “
― BBC Countryfile (Great gifts for book lovers this Christmas)

”A celebration of birds and how they help us understand the world we live in“
― Nature's Home

”A wise and witty celebration of birds “
― The Countryman

”He has an eye for the telling detail... a very attractive range of reference... More seriously, he has particularly important points to make about the way birds define places and are in turn defined by them, about the deep human responses to birdsong and the avian capacity for flight, and about our special fascination with raptors“
― TLS.

”A heartfelt celebration of birds - and of their ability to draw us into the world beyond humanity“
― Reader's Digest.

”A thought-provoking account of why birds are as essential to our pleasure as they are necessary for our survival... Highly readable... I really enjoyed Simon Barnes' writing style“
― Cage & Aviary Birds

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