Feasting, Fowling and Feathers: A History of the Exploitation of Wild Birds
- Series : Poyser Monographs
- Publisher : Poyser
- Illustrations : illus
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Description:
The way wild birds have been exploited over the centuries forms the focus of this remarkable book. It looks at the use of birds as food, for feathers and skins, for eggs, as cage birds, as specimens and for hunting, focusing on Britain, northern Europe and the North Atlantic. Never before has a book brought the huge amount of information on these topics in the academic literature together under one cover. The book concludes with discussions of the cage bird and plumage trades, both now consigned to the annals of history, in Britain at any rate. As well as summarising and condensing the material into a readable and entertaining account, Shrubb goes back to the original sources. This has allowed him to shed new and surprising light on the biogeography of a number of British birds
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