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- Author: W H Hudson
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1981829229
- ISBN-13: 9781981829224
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Years ago, in a chapter concerning eyes in a book of Patagonian memories, I spoke of the unpleasant sensations produced in me by the sight of stuffed birds. Not bird skins in the drawers of a cabinet, it will be understood, these being indispensable to the ornithologist, and very useful to the larger class of persons who without being ornithologists yet take an intelligent interest in birds. The unpleasantness was at the sight of skins stuffed with wool and set up on their legs in imitation of the living bird, sometimes (oh, mockery!) in their "natural surroundings."
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- Author: W H Hudson
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1981829229
- ISBN-13: 9781981829224
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Years ago, in a chapter concerning eyes in a book of Patagonian memories, I spoke of the unpleasant sensations produced in me by the sight of stuffed birds. Not bird skins in the drawers of a cabinet, it will be understood, these being indispensable to the ornithologist, and very useful to the larger class of persons who without being ornithologists yet take an intelligent interest in birds. The unpleasantness was at the sight of skins stuffed with wool and set up on their legs in imitation of the living bird, sometimes (oh, mockery!) in their "natural surroundings."
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