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Animal
The long-standing, widely acclaimed Animal series explores the cultural and natural history of more than 100 animals. These wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volumes explore their subjects in art, literature, mythology and religion, as well as its evolution, species, behaviour and habitat.
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Pity the common cuckoo
9th October, 2024
In this blog, author Cynthia Chris ponders the unfortunate reputation of the humble cuckoo. *** Juvenile common cuckoo with meadow pipit host Walkden Pity the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), onto whom humans project some of our most elaborate…
Not just for Christmas
22nd December, 2022
It’s Christmas-time and inevitably our favourite festive feathered friend appears. But Helen F. Wilson explains that the humble robin is not just for Christmas in this new blog piece … *** Questions about robins inevitably surface around this time…
In Pursuit of the Crab
9th August, 2021
Author Cynthia Chris was inspired to write for the Animal series when in Costa Rica. But what else influenced this seminal book on our hard-shelled friend? In this blog, Cynthia recounts what went in to writing such a book . . . *** More often than y…