Gorgeously illustrated and woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, The Bedside Book of Birds is for everyone who is passionate about birds and all they mean to ...

Subtitled An Avian Miscellany, this work is a treasure trove of anecdotes, musings, ideas, folk stories and cultural insights about birds and the history of our relationship with them. The Bedside ...

There are few creatures that have dazzled, mesmerised and provided humans with inspiration the way birds have, forming the basis of many of our creation myths and our tales of doom.

So it’s timely for Toronto writer Graeme Gibson’s 2006 bestseller “The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany” to be re-released by his publisher, prefaced with a new foreword by his ...

Inevitably, his love for birds found its way into his writing. “The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany,” an illustrated compilation of folktales, poems, fiction and nonfiction that ...

Even on the Western Front. Examples abound of birds' ability to send the watcher's soul soaring. But this book is, as the author hopes, like a walk through unfamiliar woodland. "Because the trail ...

The great bird will be praised, stuffed, and eaten. But the universe of human interaction with the feathered world — with birds — is a vast one, deeply rooted in myth and fable, literature and ...