Giovanni Pietro Olina, Cassiano Dal Pozzo

Pasta for Nightingales: A 17th-Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore

Übersetzer: Clayton, Kate

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first-ever English translation of a seventeenth-century ornithology text, complete with historic watercolor illustrations

Produktdetails

• Verlag: YALE UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780300232882
• ISBN-10: 0300232888
• Artikelnr.: 49086804

Autorenporträt

Cassiano dal Pozzo was a Roman art patron, and his seventeenth-century Museo Cartaceo housed hundreds of scientific drawings. Pietro Olina was an amateur naturalist and author of one of the earliest ornithology books. Translator Kate Clayton graduated from Oxford and studied for a postgraduate diploma in translation at Westminster University. She lives in London. Helen Macdonald is a writer and naturalist and author of H Is for Hawk.