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Flights of Fancy: Birds in Myth, Legend, and Superstition
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Author
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Peter Tate.
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Publisher
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Delacorte
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Format
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hardcover
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8.3
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5.5
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0.6
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ISBN
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9780385342483
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Pages/Publication Date
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180/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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10579
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Description
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A browsable, delightful companion for lovers of birds, literature, and folklore, this slim volume portrays 30 bird species—from blackbirds to wrynecks, illustrated with 19th-century engravings—through their imprint on the human imagination. "The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil sign," as Shakespeare had it in Henry VI; a medieval Persian proverb advises, "The peacock is ashamed of its large black feet"; and a Cherokee legend tells us, "When the raven tried to bring fire to the world, ash turned its feathers black."
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