Around the World in 80 Birds, Mike Unwin
Around the World in 80 Birds, Mike Unwin
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Around the World in 80 Birds

Author: Mike Unwin

Narrator: Tania Rodrigues

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

This beautiful and inspiring book tells the stories of 80 birds around the world: from the Sociable Weaver Bird in Namibia which constructs huge, multi-nest 'apartment blocks' in the desert, to the Bar-headed Goose of China, one of the highest-flying migrants which crosses the Himalayas twice a year.

Many birds come steeped in folklore and myth, some are national emblems and a few have inspired scientific revelation or daring conservation projects. Each has a story to tell that sheds a light on our relationship with the natural world and reveals just how deeply birds matter to us.

About Mike Unwin

Mike Unwin is an award-winning writer of popular natural history books for adults and children. He writes for The Daily Telegraph, The Times, BBC Wildlife, Travel Africa, as well as the RSPB and WWF. Also a widely published photographer, his travels have taken him to every continent in search of its birds and other wildlife.

About Ryuto Miyake

Ryuto Miyake is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Tokyo. Miyake prefers traditional drawing styles, using acrylic gouache applied with a thin brush on stretched-out watercolour paper, but his detailed illustrations have a contemporary look. His clients include Gucci, Toyota, Frieze and Bottega Veneta.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

Birds. Actually, there's a lot of cool and interesting details on 80 different impactful bird species written in an engaging way that really worth the gander. I mean, seriously, don't be turkey. Finch this up and sing its praises like a nightingale.......more

Goodreads review by Trish

Another entry in the Around the World in 80 ... series. This time, we look at the most iconic or memorable birds of the world. The book, like the other I've read only last month, is divided into 7 chapters that take the reader from continent to continent: - Africa - Eurasia - North America - South and Ce......more

Goodreads review by Colleen

The illustrations alone in this book are worth the price of admission.The author provides not only interesting biology, but also explores how each bird species has interacted with humans, whether in folklore ,mythology or real life ….and definitely with the question of for better or for worse......more

Goodreads review by Audrey

80% of these birds were familiar and dear to me, and I gasped my way through it in a few hours. Now, I wish I had been less indulgent, because I miss the thrills. I’d be delighted if the title was, rather, “Around the World in 800 Birds.” I’ll read this again, and make my family read it, too, and I......more

Quotes

From Madagascar and the helmet vanga to the Galapagos Islands and the courtship rituals of the male blue-footed booby (think dad dancing, but with big, blue, webbed feet), Unwin introduces a dazzling array of our feathered friends. I'm very taken with Australia's southern cassowary, a 'living dinosaur', weighing 154lb and not to be trifled with. Ryuto Miyake's illustrations bring it all alive SAGA magazine

Wildlife author Mike Unwin takes a world tour of 80 birds with exquisite illustrations from Tokyo-based Ryuto Miyake. Inspiring myth, national pride or scientific revelation, each bird has a story to tell, from the sociable weaver bird that constructs towering multi-nest 'apartment blocks' in the Namibian desert to the bar-headed goose, whose epic, twice-yearly trans-Himalayan journey makes it one of the world's highest-flying migrants NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

So engagingly written that, by bird two, I was absorbed ... The book is full of nuggets about birds' places in the human psyche ... Japanese artist Ryuto Miyake's illustrations are a delight COUNTRY LIFE

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