5/8: Ten Birds That Changed the World Hardcover – by Stephen Moss (Author)
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🗓️ 11 November 2023
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5/8: Ten Birds That Changed the World Hardcover – by Stephen Moss (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Birds-That-Changed-World/dp/1541604466
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been inspired by them for our music, art, and poetry.
In Ten Birds That Changed the World, naturalist and author Stephen Moss tells the gripping story of this long and intimate relationship through key species from all seven of the world’s continents. From Odin’s faithful raven companions to Darwin’s finches, and from the wild turkey of the Americas to the emperor penguin as potent symbol of the climate crisis, this is a fascinating, eye-opening, and endlessly engaging work of natural history.
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| 0:42.0 | Continuing with the author and producer, Stephen Moss, his new book is 10 birds that change the world. |
| 0:49.0 | And now we turn to a raven. |
| 0:51.0 | I have never seen a raven. I have crows in my life and I respect them. |
| 0:55.8 | A raven is much bigger. Also, same cleverness, same intelligence, and the legends. |
| 1:04.0 | Stephen, a very good evening to you to continue with the Raven. |
| 1:07.7 | You've seen the Raven in the Tower of London. |
| 1:10.5 | I want to start there because that's part of my association. |
| 1:14.0 | The Tower of London, it's impossible to avoid it if you read English in American history. |
| 1:19.0 | The raven is a very large bird and I take it it has something of the the aura of |
| 1:26.5 | mythology around him you've met a raven and he makes a strange sound so please explain how big and what the sound is and what you |
| 1:36.8 | thought when you met a raven. Raybons are like a crow on steroids. I mean they're |
| 1:42.3 | considerably. They're about the same size as a |
| 1:45.2 | hawk a buzzard, you know, Red-tailed hawk, that sort of size, you know. They're a big bird and they have this very loud |
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