Birds of Paradox: Birdlife in Australia and New Zealand edited by Jack Pollard

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to top and right foredges. Dust jacket has tearing at spine top. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a glossy protective cover. Interior and binding are also very good.

This book contains all the best stories about Australian and New Zealand birds, fiction and non-fiction and the best poems on birds. It is written for enjoyment and occasionally tugs at the heartstrings and offers a laugh or two at the odd quirks. There are birds like the Kiwi, which cannot fly, the lyrebird, which sings with the voices of other birds and the Australian Mallee Fowl, which builds its own incubator to hatch its eggs!

Naturalists and bird-watchers whose work appears include Joseph Banks, John Gould, Neville Cayley, A H Chilsholm and Robin Hill, whose contributions in prose and poetry have been gathered from Xavier Herbert, Mary Gilmore, Olaf Ruhen, Katherine Mansfield and Banjo Paterson.

The book is illustrated with a superb collection of bird photographs by leading nature photographers from Australia and New Zealand.