Bird Lover books!

Location: Yonge and College /downtown Toronto $8 each. Cash only; prices are firm. - Birds of Canada - P.A. Taverner Published 1934, Canada Department of Mines, National Museum of Canada, Bulletin No. 72 - Birds & People - Mark Cocker. Photographs by David Tipling "There are 10,500 species of bird worldwide and wherever they occur people marvel at their extraordinary beauty and wonder at their powers of flight. We also trap and eat birds of every kind. Yet birds have not just been good to eat. Their feathers, which keep us warm or adorn our costumes, give birds unique mastery over the heavens. Throughout history their flight has inspired the human imagination so that birds are embedded in our religions, folklore, music and arts. Whether on our national emblems or banknotes, bird imagery entwines the political rhetoric of freedom and informs our vocabularies of birth and death. Birds & People explores and celebrates this relationship. Vast in both scope and scale, the book draws upon Mark Cocker's forty years of observing and thinking about birds. Part natural history and part cultural study, it describes and maps the entire spectrum of our engagements with birds, drawing in themes of history, literature, art, cuisine, language, lore, politics and the environment. In the end, this is a book as much about us as it is about birds..." Check out my other book posts as well!