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THE LIFE OF BIRDS
by Sir David Attenborough
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 069101633X
- ISBN 13
- 9780691016337
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Multiple Photographers. Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, 1st Printing. Gilt embossed red linen boards/Fine w/trace push to lower front corner tip. DJ/Fine. Frontispiece: Soaring Egyptian vulture. LAID IN: Nat'l Geographic, March 2018 issue, supplementary fold-out map of migratory patterns of birds in the Western & Eastern Hemispheres. Sir David Attenborough (1926 -) treks rain forests & deserts, city streets & remote wilderness, for this illuminating study of how birds master the air just above our heads --- their songs, search for food, nesting & nurturing of their young. 320 pgs w/some 200 photographs in 10 chapters in eloquent prose: 1, To Fly or Not to Fly; 2, The Mastery of Flight; 3, The Insatiable Appetite; 4, Meat Eaters; 5, Fishing for a Living; 6, Signals & Songs; 7, Finding Partners; 8, The Demands of the Egg; 9, The Problems of Parenthood; and 10, The Limits of Endurance.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020440
- Title
- THE LIFE OF BIRDS
- Author
- Sir David Attenborough
- Illustrator
- Multiple Photographers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 069101633X
- ISBN 13
- 9780691016337
- Publisher
- Princeton Univ Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, NJ
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 320
- Keywords
- Birds, Biology, Life Patterns, Nature
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