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Parrot culture : our 2,500-year-long fascination with the world's most talkative bird / Bruce Thomas Boehrer.
LIBRA SF473.P3 B59 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boehrer, Bruce Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parrots.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Traces the unique place held by parrots in the history, culture, society, literature, and even culinary arts of the Western world, beginning with Alexander the Great's return from Persia with a number of parrots.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812237935
- OCLC:
- 54446320
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