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PUBLISHER: Scotland Street Press
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781910895399
RRP: £9.99
PAGES: 100
PUBLICATION DATE:
February 24, 2020
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Wilson’s Ornithology and Burds in Scots
Hamish MacDonald
Alexander Wilson
As a result of his travels across the North American continent in the eighteenth century Alexander Wilson pioneered the science of ornithological writing and illustration, becoming an inspiration for most of the ornithological works which followed.
This new book celebrates the artwork of Alexander Wilson by reproducing his illustrations alongside new poems in Scots by Hamish MacDonald, looking at the habits, habitats, and characteristics of birds.
Hamish MacDonald
ALEXANDER WILSON, a Radical Paisley weaver turned packman, travelled thousands of miles by foot across the American continent illustrating and writing about its bird life.
HAMISH MACDONALD was the first skriver at the Scottish National Library in Edinburgh and the poems reflect his own lifelong love of birds.
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