Synopses & Reviews
With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America. First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all 109 bird illustrations, 20 color plates, and the entire text from Catesby's pioneering Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas. Annotating Catesby's writings from a modern perspective, Feduccia discusses the perception of each species during the Colonial period, comments on its habits, and compares Catesby's observations with those of such other early naturalists as John White, John Lawson, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon.
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This is a book that speaks to human history, natural history, Native American ethnography, geography, and cultural studies.
Southern Cultures
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[B]eautiful in the simple accuracy of its drawings and historically interesting for its pictures and descriptions of species now extinct.
New Yorker
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The first 'profusely' illustrated tome on America's birds should be on every ornithologist's night stand.
The Wilson Bulletin
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Alan Feduccia's
Catesby's Birds of Colonial America is a celebration of Catesby's considerable accomplishments.
Southern Living
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This glimpse of colonial ornithology will attract historians as well as birders.
Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
Features the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the British naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America, preceding Audobon by nearly a century.
Synopsis
This is a book that speaks to human history, natural history, Native American ethnography, geography, and cultural studies.
Southern Cultures [B]eautiful in the simple accuracy of its drawings and historically interesting for its pictures and descriptions of species now extinct.
New Yorker This glimpse of colonial ornithology will attract historians as well as birders.
Publishers Weekly The first 'profusely' illustrated tome on America's birds should be on every ornithologist's night stand.
The Wilson Bulletin Alan Feduccia's Catesby's Birds of Colonial America is a celebration of Catesby's considerable accomplishments.
Southern Living
About the Author
Alan Feduccia is S. K. Heninger Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include The Age of Birds, The Origin and Evolution of Birds, and Birds of Colonial Williamsburg.