Taken Captive by Birds - Softcover
Taken Captive By Birds is a collection of Marguerite Poland’s discovery’ of birds as a child and the role they have played in her and her family’s life. Interwoven with the personal story are the myths, traditions and meanings behind birds and their names within Zulu and Xhosa culture. The book is divided into 18 chapters, each of which loosely deals with one particular bird or, sometimes, a grouping of birds. Beautifully illustrated by Craig Ivor van Vuuren, this collaboration promises to become one of the classic South African publications.
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- PublisherPenguin Global
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0143530445
- ISBN 13 9780143530442
- BindingSpiral-bound
- Number of pages143
- IllustratorIvor Craig
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Book Description 4to; pictorial boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 143; full-page illustrations. Merest trace of curl to edges of dustwrapper. Near-fine condition. "All my life I have been 'taken captive by birds'. Their doings are the thread that runs through childhood, the link to people and to place. Their appearance and their presence can at once recall a name, a scent, a morning full of song and exploration; an evening sorrow, a childhood fear. For, somehow, it is the birds that saw it all: those unobtrusive harbingers whose boundaries are defined by other laws than ours but whose ancient lore remains a cipher to remembrance for me.". Seller Inventory # 13447
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