Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology Since Darwin

by Jo Wimpenny, Tim Birkhead, Bob Montgomerie

A beautifully illustrated history of modern ornithology

Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked. This beautifully illustrated book opens in the middle of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691151970
• ISBN13: 9780691151977
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.3" x 10.4"