Let your imagination take flight and celebrate the beauty and diversity of birds throughout art
science history and cultureBird: Exploring the Winged World presents a visually stunning
survey of birds chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around
the world. Showcasing the remarkable diversity of species from tiny hummingbirds to ostriches
taller than humans and icebound penguins to tropical macaws this extraordinary book includes
renowned and lesser-known ornithological illustrations and artwork of all styles. Arranged in
thoughtfully paired juxtapositions it reveals how artists illustrators ornithologists and
photographers - from ancient Egypt to the present - have captured the spirit likeness
character and symbolism of birds. Bird is the latest instalment in Phaidon's bestselling and
much-loved Explorer Series building on the success of Map Plant Flower Animal Anatomy and
Universe - each of which provides a unique focus on a globally appealing subject area.
