MUSICAL MOMENTS IN A REPUBLIC OF TURMOIL: 8/8: Ten Birds That Changed the World Hardcover – by Stephen Moss (Author)
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
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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. /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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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. This is a new book is 10 birds that |
| 0:35.0 | that's a |
| 0:35.0 | Stephen Moss. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:37.0 | His new book is Ten Birds that Change the World. |
| 0:40.0 | First, the Snowy Equit, a beautiful bird to look at photographs, the Plumage Wars. |
| 0:46.3 | This had to do with fashion, maybe from Marie Antoinette, but certainly by the 19th century in Europe and in America, |
| 0:53.7 | Lady's Hat. |
| 0:55.2 | Stephen, there's a part of the story that's hard to tell |
| 0:58.4 | about the abuse of birds with beautiful plumes like the snowy egret. |
| 1:05.0 | We've changed Stephen. There's no toleration for this kind of cruelty today. |
| 1:09.0 | I hope not. I mean people still shoot birds certainly in Europe and America you know but what |
| 1:15.2 | happened here was as you say it was driven by I suppose what you call posh rich |
| 1:20.8 | women in New York in Paris in London. They wanted to outdo their |
| 1:25.2 | friends and they did so. First, by wearing ostrich feathers which were farmed, |
| 1:29.6 | so that was less of a problem, but then from feathers of wild birds. |
| 1:34.2 | And not just feathers, people would wear things like a hummingbird as a brooch on their, |
| 1:38.0 | you know, a dead one on their dress. |
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