Product Description: The past five centuries have witnessed a shocking series of confrontations between European nations and millions of indigenous peoples, and these cultural encounters still resonate strongly to this day. Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is an essential book for understanding the true impact of imperialism...read more

Presents a prose poem in a long tradition of English pastoral writing. This work is also a celebration of the Norfolk countryside. It asks us to recall that 'Crow Country' is not 'ours'. It's a landscape which we cohabit with thousands of other species and is all the richer for these complex fellowships.

A celebration of the author's lifelong love for the art of birdwatching captures the drama, excitement, and thrills of his hobby and offers profiles of other devoted fans whose obsession has taken them around the world in search of rare or exotic birds.

A study of travel writing as a literary art examines the lives and works of a dozen major travel writers, including Wilfred Thesiger, Gavin Maxwell, Laurens van der Post, and Lawrence Durrell.

Product Description: This book describes the ornithological work of the remarkable naturalist, scholar and administrator, Brian Houghton Hodgson. Born in 1800, Hodgson was for many years British Resident in Katmandu, where he described or collected over 120 species of birds new to science...read more