With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America. First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all 109 bird illustrations, 20 color plates, and the entire text from Catesby's pioneering Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas. Annotating Catesby's writings from a modern perspective, Feduccia discusses the perception of each species during the Colonial period, comments on its habits, and compares Catesby's observations with those of such other early naturalists as John White, John Lawson, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
English naturalist Mark Catesby presented Europeans with their first comprehensive view of American flora and fauna. He had traveled extensively in the southern colonies and the Caribbeana five-year period starting in 1712, and a later four years beginning in 1722gathering seeds, drawing wildlife and observing their habits. Though his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands was well known in its time, it was superseded by the works of Alexander Wilson and Audubon. Feduccia, author of The Age of Birds, rescues Catesby from oblivion with a fresh appreciation of his pioneering studies. Here are all the bird illustrations and the entire text of Catesby's book (parts of it borrowed from John Lawson's New Voyage to Carolina). Catesby used native plants as a background for his birds; his descriptions, made before the era of systematic nomenclature, are augmented by Feduccia and compared to those of other early naturalists. This glimpse of colonial ornithology will attract historians as well as birders. November 15
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
This is a book that speaks to human history, natural history, Native American ethnography, geography, and cultural studies.
Southern Cultures
[B]eautiful in the simple accuracy of its drawings and historically interesting for its pictures and descriptions of species now extinct.
New Yorker
This glimpse of colonial ornithology will attract historians as well as birders.
Publishers Weekly
The first 'profusely' illustrated tome on America's birds should be on every ornithologist's night stand.
The Wilson Bulletin
Alan Feduccia's Catesby's Birds of Colonial America is a celebration of Catesby's considerable accomplishments.
Southern Living
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Nice Introduction to the Work of Catesby,
By Playingpossum (Columbia, South Carolina) - See all my reviews
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Catesby's Birds of Colonial America (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) (Paperback)
Everyone has heard of Audubon but not of his predecessor Catesby. This paperback is an excellent introduction to his work in an appropriately priced paperback. The prints are not of highest quality but they are good and will allow you to fully appreciate Catesby's art and illustration. The volume has descriptive material of Catesby's place in American art and history as well as the writings which accompanied his published works. If you are interested in Southern and North American natural history this is a must have, unless of course, you can afford the much higher priced full reproductions of his work.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
This bird weighs half a pound. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exterior vanes, interior vanes, larger quill feathers, white curlew, faint tincture, normal clutch, dusky white, common summer resident, dusky black, shady thickets, upper mandible, lead color, common nighthawk, maritime parts, heath hen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Editor's Note, Bahama Islands, United States, South Carolina, North America, North Carolina, New World, New England, South America, Alexander Wilson, West Indies, New York, Sir Hans Sloane, Grand Bahama, Crooked Island, Long Island, Atlantic Ocean, Cat Island, Sugar Islands, Arctic Circle, Father Jartoux, John Lawson, Martha's Vineyard, New Orleans, Southern Hemisphere New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
This bird weighs half a pound. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exterior vanes, interior vanes, larger quill feathers, white curlew, faint tincture, normal clutch, dusky white, common summer resident, dusky black, shady thickets, upper mandible, lead color, common nighthawk, maritime parts, heath hen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Editor's Note, Bahama Islands, United States, South Carolina, North America, North Carolina, New World, New England, South America, Alexander Wilson, West Indies, New York, Sir Hans Sloane, Grand Bahama, Crooked Island, Long Island, Atlantic Ocean, Cat Island, Sugar Islands, Arctic Circle, Father Jartoux, John Lawson, Martha's Vineyard, New Orleans, Southern Hemisphere New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 33
books:
See all 33 books this book cites
5
books
cite this book:
- A New Voyage To Carolina by John Lawson on 6 pages
- A New Voyage to Carolina by John Lawson on 6 pages
- A New World by Arthur Quinn in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 65
- A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies (Peterson Field Guide) by James Bond in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- South Carolina Bird Life by Alexander Sprunt Jr. in Front Matter, and Back Matter
See all 33 books this book cites
- An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by Joyce E. Chaplin on page 70, and Back Matter
- This Incomparable Land: A Guide to American Nature Writing by Thomas J. Lyon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Long Look at Nature: The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences by Margaret Martin in Back Matter
- John J. Audubon's Guide: The Birds of the Northeast by Julien Tavener in Back Matter
- Saltwater Gamefishes of the World by Bob Dunn in Back Matter
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
