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The dodo and the solitaire [[electronic resource] ] : a natural history / / Jolyon C. Parish
| The dodo and the solitaire [[electronic resource] ] : a natural history / / Jolyon C. Parish |
| Autore | Parish Jolyon C. <1977-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
| Disciplina | 598.168 |
| Collana | Life of the past |
| Soggetto topico |
Dodo
Solitaire (Bird) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-73544-X
0-253-00103-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Melancholy Visage; Note on Translations; Notes on the Text; List of Abbreviations; 1: Written Accounts of the Dodo; First Encounters: Van Neck's Account; ""Cermes Gaensen"": The Journals of the Gelderland; Reyer Cornelisz's Account; Van West-Zanen's Account; Matelief's Account; Van Der Hagen's Account; Johann Verken's Account; Manuel De Almeida's Account; The Altham Dodo; The Phoenix of Mauritius: Thomas Herbert's Account; The Surat Dodos; The ""Burgemeesters"" (Anonymous 1631)
A ""Strange Fowle"": L'Estrange's DodoFrançois Cauche's Account; The Batavia Dodo; Castaways' Tales: The Aernhem Disaster; The Last Days; The Red Rail and the Dodo; 2: Written Accounts of the Rodrigues Solitaire; Introduction; Memoirs of a Refugee: Leguat's Account; Tafforet's Account; Jonchée 1729; Gennes De la Chancelière 1733; D'Heguerty 1754; Cossigny 1755; Sic Itur ad Astra: The Visit of Alexandre-Guy Pingré; 3: Contemporary Illustrations; Introduction; ""Unequalled of the Age"": Mansūr's Dodo Painting (Mansūr); The Dodo's Portrait Painter: Roelandt Savery Van Der Venne's Illustration (Van-Der-Venne)De Hondecoeter's Dodo Paintings; Hans II Savery's Dodo Illustrations; Saftleven's Dodo Painting; Van den Broecke's Dodo; Ruthart, Francken, and Van Thulden's Paintings; The 2009 Christie's Dodo Picture (Christie's-Dronte); Mistaken Identity: Minaggio's Feather Picture; 4: Secondary Contemporary Sources and Miscellanea; Clusius's Account; Plinius Secundus; Bontius's Account; Nieuhof's Account; Randle Holme's the Academy of Armory; Post-traumatic Reminiscences: Bontekoe's Account; South American Dodos: Van Spilbergen's Account Two Mauritian ""Robinsonades"": Neville and Von GrimmelshausenA Troubled Afterlife: Post-contemporary Accounts; Naming the Dodo and Solitaire; Pseudodoxia Epidemica: The Réunion Dodos; The Dodo and the Penguin; The ""Dodo of Vere""; Dodo Miscellanea; 5: Anatomical Evidences; Introduction; The Prague Dodo; The Copenhagen Dodo Head; The Anatomy School Dodos; Petrus Pauwius's Dodo Foot; The British Museum Dodo Foot; The Tradescant Specimen; Resurrection: History of Bone Discoveries (1786-Present); 6: The Natural History of the Dodo and the Solitaire; Description; Ecology Classification and TaxonomyPhylogenetic Placement and Evolution; Taphonomy; 7: Afterword: Memories of Green; Rara Avis; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461912303321 |
Parish Jolyon C. <1977->
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| Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013 | ||
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The dodo and the solitaire [[electronic resource] ] : a natural history / / Jolyon C. Parish
| The dodo and the solitaire [[electronic resource] ] : a natural history / / Jolyon C. Parish |
| Autore | Parish Jolyon C. <1977-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
| Disciplina | 598.168 |
| Collana | Life of the past |
| Soggetto topico |
Dodo
Solitaire (Bird) |
| ISBN |
1-283-73544-X
0-253-00103-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Melancholy Visage; Note on Translations; Notes on the Text; List of Abbreviations; 1: Written Accounts of the Dodo; First Encounters: Van Neck's Account; ""Cermes Gaensen"": The Journals of the Gelderland; Reyer Cornelisz's Account; Van West-Zanen's Account; Matelief's Account; Van Der Hagen's Account; Johann Verken's Account; Manuel De Almeida's Account; The Altham Dodo; The Phoenix of Mauritius: Thomas Herbert's Account; The Surat Dodos; The ""Burgemeesters"" (Anonymous 1631)
A ""Strange Fowle"": L'Estrange's DodoFrançois Cauche's Account; The Batavia Dodo; Castaways' Tales: The Aernhem Disaster; The Last Days; The Red Rail and the Dodo; 2: Written Accounts of the Rodrigues Solitaire; Introduction; Memoirs of a Refugee: Leguat's Account; Tafforet's Account; Jonchée 1729; Gennes De la Chancelière 1733; D'Heguerty 1754; Cossigny 1755; Sic Itur ad Astra: The Visit of Alexandre-Guy Pingré; 3: Contemporary Illustrations; Introduction; ""Unequalled of the Age"": Mansūr's Dodo Painting (Mansūr); The Dodo's Portrait Painter: Roelandt Savery Van Der Venne's Illustration (Van-Der-Venne)De Hondecoeter's Dodo Paintings; Hans II Savery's Dodo Illustrations; Saftleven's Dodo Painting; Van den Broecke's Dodo; Ruthart, Francken, and Van Thulden's Paintings; The 2009 Christie's Dodo Picture (Christie's-Dronte); Mistaken Identity: Minaggio's Feather Picture; 4: Secondary Contemporary Sources and Miscellanea; Clusius's Account; Plinius Secundus; Bontius's Account; Nieuhof's Account; Randle Holme's the Academy of Armory; Post-traumatic Reminiscences: Bontekoe's Account; South American Dodos: Van Spilbergen's Account Two Mauritian ""Robinsonades"": Neville and Von GrimmelshausenA Troubled Afterlife: Post-contemporary Accounts; Naming the Dodo and Solitaire; Pseudodoxia Epidemica: The Réunion Dodos; The Dodo and the Penguin; The ""Dodo of Vere""; Dodo Miscellanea; 5: Anatomical Evidences; Introduction; The Prague Dodo; The Copenhagen Dodo Head; The Anatomy School Dodos; Petrus Pauwius's Dodo Foot; The British Museum Dodo Foot; The Tradescant Specimen; Resurrection: History of Bone Discoveries (1786-Present); 6: The Natural History of the Dodo and the Solitaire; Description; Ecology Classification and TaxonomyPhylogenetic Placement and Evolution; Taphonomy; 7: Afterword: Memories of Green; Rara Avis; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786358203321 |
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Parish Jolyon C. <1977->
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| Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The dodo and the solitaire : a natural history / / Jolyon C. Parish
| The dodo and the solitaire : a natural history / / Jolyon C. Parish |
| Autore | Parish Jolyon C. <1977-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
| Disciplina | 598.168 |
| Collana | Life of the past |
| Soggetto topico |
Dodo
Solitaire (Bird) |
| ISBN |
9781283735445
128373544X 9780253001030 025300103X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Melancholy Visage; Note on Translations; Notes on the Text; List of Abbreviations; 1: Written Accounts of the Dodo; First Encounters: Van Neck's Account; ""Cermes Gaensen"": The Journals of the Gelderland; Reyer Cornelisz's Account; Van West-Zanen's Account; Matelief's Account; Van Der Hagen's Account; Johann Verken's Account; Manuel De Almeida's Account; The Altham Dodo; The Phoenix of Mauritius: Thomas Herbert's Account; The Surat Dodos; The ""Burgemeesters"" (Anonymous 1631)
A ""Strange Fowle"": L'Estrange's DodoFrançois Cauche's Account; The Batavia Dodo; Castaways' Tales: The Aernhem Disaster; The Last Days; The Red Rail and the Dodo; 2: Written Accounts of the Rodrigues Solitaire; Introduction; Memoirs of a Refugee: Leguat's Account; Tafforet's Account; Jonchée 1729; Gennes De la Chancelière 1733; D'Heguerty 1754; Cossigny 1755; Sic Itur ad Astra: The Visit of Alexandre-Guy Pingré; 3: Contemporary Illustrations; Introduction; ""Unequalled of the Age"": Mansūr's Dodo Painting (Mansūr); The Dodo's Portrait Painter: Roelandt Savery Van Der Venne's Illustration (Van-Der-Venne)De Hondecoeter's Dodo Paintings; Hans II Savery's Dodo Illustrations; Saftleven's Dodo Painting; Van den Broecke's Dodo; Ruthart, Francken, and Van Thulden's Paintings; The 2009 Christie's Dodo Picture (Christie's-Dronte); Mistaken Identity: Minaggio's Feather Picture; 4: Secondary Contemporary Sources and Miscellanea; Clusius's Account; Plinius Secundus; Bontius's Account; Nieuhof's Account; Randle Holme's the Academy of Armory; Post-traumatic Reminiscences: Bontekoe's Account; South American Dodos: Van Spilbergen's Account Two Mauritian ""Robinsonades"": Neville and Von GrimmelshausenA Troubled Afterlife: Post-contemporary Accounts; Naming the Dodo and Solitaire; Pseudodoxia Epidemica: The Réunion Dodos; The Dodo and the Penguin; The ""Dodo of Vere""; Dodo Miscellanea; 5: Anatomical Evidences; Introduction; The Prague Dodo; The Copenhagen Dodo Head; The Anatomy School Dodos; Petrus Pauwius's Dodo Foot; The British Museum Dodo Foot; The Tradescant Specimen; Resurrection: History of Bone Discoveries (1786-Present); 6: The Natural History of the Dodo and the Solitaire; Description; Ecology Classification and TaxonomyPhylogenetic Placement and Evolution; Taphonomy; 7: Afterword: Memories of Green; Rara Avis; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910957549903321 |
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Parish Jolyon C. <1977->
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| Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Endangered and Extinct Birds
| Endangered and Extinct Birds |
| Autore | Boothroyd Jennifer |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lerner |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (32 p.) |
| Disciplina | 598.168 |
| ISBN | 1-5124-4666-1 |
| Formato | Musica  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155740803321 |
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Boothroyd Jennifer
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| Lerner | ||
| Musica | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Facing extinction : the world's rarest birds and the race to save them / / Paul F. Donald ... [and others]
| Facing extinction : the world's rarest birds and the race to save them / / Paul F. Donald ... [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : T & AD Poyser, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (843 p.) |
| Disciplina | 598.168 |
| Soggetto topico |
Extinct birds
Rare birds - Geographical distribution Rare birds |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-4725-9766-4
1-282-96046-6 9786612960468 1-4081-3909-X 1-4081-3908-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The nature of rarity and the rarity of nature; 2. The distribution and causes of rarity; 3. Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius; 4. Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus; 5. Brazilian Merganser Mergus octosetaceus; 6. Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae; 7. Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis; 8. Liben Lark Heteromirafra sidamoensis; 9. Yellow-crested Cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea; 10. Rarity and extinction on islands; 11. Stephens Island Wren Xenicus (Traversia) lyalli
12. Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena13. Raso Lark Alauda razae; 14. Po'ouli Melamprosops phaeosoma; 15. Saving the world's rarest birds; 16. Kakapo Strigops habroptila; 17. Asian vultures Gyps bengalensis, G. tenuirostris, G. indicus; 18. Philippine Eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi; 19. Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu; 20. Spix's Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii; 21. Madagascar Pochard Aythya innotata; 22. The lost and the found; 23. Gurney's Pitta Pitta gurneyi; 24. Forest Owlet Heteroglaux blewitti; 25. Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris and Eskimo Curlew N. borealis 26. Rarity and extinction in the futureReferences |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458908503321 |
| London : , : T & AD Poyser, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Facing extinction : the world's rarest birds and the race to save them / / Paul F. Donald ... [and others]
| Facing extinction : the world's rarest birds and the race to save them / / Paul F. Donald ... [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : T & AD Poyser, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (843 p.) |
| Disciplina | 598.168 |
| Soggetto topico |
Extinct birds
Rare birds - Geographical distribution Rare birds |
| ISBN |
1-4725-9766-4
1-282-96046-6 9786612960468 1-4081-3909-X 1-4081-3908-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The nature of rarity and the rarity of nature; 2. The distribution and causes of rarity; 3. Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius; 4. Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus; 5. Brazilian Merganser Mergus octosetaceus; 6. Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae; 7. Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis; 8. Liben Lark Heteromirafra sidamoensis; 9. Yellow-crested Cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea; 10. Rarity and extinction on islands; 11. Stephens Island Wren Xenicus (Traversia) lyalli
12. Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena13. Raso Lark Alauda razae; 14. Po'ouli Melamprosops phaeosoma; 15. Saving the world's rarest birds; 16. Kakapo Strigops habroptila; 17. Asian vultures Gyps bengalensis, G. tenuirostris, G. indicus; 18. Philippine Eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi; 19. Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu; 20. Spix's Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii; 21. Madagascar Pochard Aythya innotata; 22. The lost and the found; 23. Gurney's Pitta Pitta gurneyi; 24. Forest Owlet Heteroglaux blewitti; 25. Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris and Eskimo Curlew N. borealis 26. Rarity and extinction in the futureReferences |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785302403321 |
| London : , : T & AD Poyser, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Facing extinction : the world's rarest birds and the race to save them / / Paul F. Donald ... [and others]
| Facing extinction : the world's rarest birds and the race to save them / / Paul F. Donald ... [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : T & AD Poyser, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (843 p.) |
| Disciplina | 598.168 |
| Soggetto topico |
Extinct birds
Rare birds - Geographical distribution Rare birds |
| ISBN |
1-4725-9766-4
1-282-96046-6 9786612960468 1-4081-3909-X 1-4081-3908-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The nature of rarity and the rarity of nature; 2. The distribution and causes of rarity; 3. Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius; 4. Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus; 5. Brazilian Merganser Mergus octosetaceus; 6. Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae; 7. Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis; 8. Liben Lark Heteromirafra sidamoensis; 9. Yellow-crested Cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea; 10. Rarity and extinction on islands; 11. Stephens Island Wren Xenicus (Traversia) lyalli
12. Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena13. Raso Lark Alauda razae; 14. Po'ouli Melamprosops phaeosoma; 15. Saving the world's rarest birds; 16. Kakapo Strigops habroptila; 17. Asian vultures Gyps bengalensis, G. tenuirostris, G. indicus; 18. Philippine Eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi; 19. Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu; 20. Spix's Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii; 21. Madagascar Pochard Aythya innotata; 22. The lost and the found; 23. Gurney's Pitta Pitta gurneyi; 24. Forest Owlet Heteroglaux blewitti; 25. Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris and Eskimo Curlew N. borealis 26. Rarity and extinction in the futureReferences |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808636103321 |
| London : , : T & AD Poyser, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Together : a love affair with extinct birds / / B. J. Hollars
| Together : a love affair with extinct birds / / B. J. Hollars |
| Autore | Hollars B. J. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 598.168 |
| Soggetto topico |
Extinct birds
Birds - Extinction |
| ISBN |
0-8032-9658-4
0-8032-9656-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154719903321 |
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Hollars B. J.
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| Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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