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Parrot Culture: Our 25-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird
Bruce Thomas Boehrer
Parrot Culture: Our 25-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird
Bruce Thomas Boehrer
Exploring the presence and meanings of these birds in the art, literature, and history of Western civilization, Parrot Culture traces the unusual history of parrots from their introduction in the Graeco-Roman world, through the great age of New World exploration, to the contemporary ecological crisis of globalism.
224 pages, 49 illus.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 9, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9780812221046 |
Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 224 |
Dimensions | 220 × 148 × 14 mm · 340 g |
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