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Aelian’s On The Nature Of Animals: The Classics Can Be Fun!

10,000 Birds

Thus opens the first entry in On the Nature of Animals , written by Claudius Aelianus in the days of imperial Rome, now freshly translated by Gregory McNamee and presented in an attractive, modern-looking edition by Trinity University Press.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!); It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book.