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Item Details
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NOTES OF A PROVINCIAL WILDFOWLER
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| By: |
Sergei Aksakov, Kevin Windle (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£40.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810113910 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810113916 |
| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 July, 1998 |
| Edition: |
Translated ed. |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Translated from: |
Russian |
| Description: |
This text presents a detailed study of birding in 19th-century Russia. It is a guide to the bird species of Russia, combining a naturalist's sensibility with literary skills, looking at behaviour, life-cycles and lyrical discourses on habitats that comprise the Russian Steppe. |
| Synopsis: |
The companion volume to his popular Notes on Fishing, Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler is Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov's guide to the bird species of his native Russia. Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler is filled with precise descriptions of the various game that it treats: detailed accounts of the behavior of birds, observations on their life cycles, and lyrical discourses on the habitats - marsh, water, and forest - that comprise the Russian steppe. Offering a rich multitude of viewpoints philosophical, literary, linguistic, ethnographic, and environmental - Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler will appeal to a wide audience of readers, from birders to historians to those who relish fine literature. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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