Robin
eBook - ePub

Robin

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Robin

About this book

The robin is a small bird with a distinctive ruddy breast, at once a national treasure and a bird with a global reputation. In this superbly illustrated account, Helen F. Wilson looks at many aspects of the cherished robin, from its status as a harbinger of seasonal change and icon of Christmas, to its place in fairy tales, environmental campaigns and scientific discovery.
In moving between cultural and natural histories, Robin asks wide-ranging questions: how did the robin's name travel the world? Why is the robin so melancholy? Who was Cock Robin? And how has the history of the colour red shaped the robin's ambivalent associations and unusual origin stories?

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Information

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781789146264
eBook ISBN
9781789146257
Subtopic
Natural History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. 1 A Familiar Bird
  6. 2 The Global Robin
  7. 3 Death, Bad Omens and a Pious Bird
  8. 4 A Bird of Song and Seasonal Change
  9. 5 For Territory and Nation
  10. 6 The Colour Red and a Christmas Story
  11. 7 Robin Futures
  12. Timeline
  13. References
  14. Select Bibliography
  15. Associations and Websites
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. Photo Acknowledgements
  18. Index

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