Parrot Culture: Our 25-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird - Softcover

Boehrer, Bruce Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812221044 ISBN 13: 9780812221046

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010

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Review:

"Smart, lively and informative. . . . Boehrer's abiding love for these birds is sure to win some converts. . . This is an enjoyable, eloquent paean to all things psittacine."—Washington Times

"Parrot Culture celebrates the beauty, intelligence, and personally of these birds."—BirdTimes

"Engrossing. . . . Bruce Thomas Boehrer concentrates his well-stocked mind on what over the centuries we humans have done to, and done with, parrots."—Times Literary Supplement

"As both a fiction writer and a lover of parrots, I was delighted and enlightened by Parrot Culture. This is an enchanting book."—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

"Boehrer has a knowledge base that spans science, art, and literature, and the writing is delightful. The book is fascinating."—Joanna Burger, author of The Parrot Who Owns Me

"In tracing the relationship between human and parrot, Boehrer, an English professor and parrot fancier, examines the influence of psittacines on all levels of society. Parrots have always been popular as pets, and interwoven with the discussion of parrots as symbols is Boehrer's analysis of our obsession with owning parrots, which has directly led to their decline. This amalgam of art, natural history, and literature will find a ready audience among the legions of bird aficionados."—Booklist

"The book is written by that most rare and wonderful of specimens—an academic whose obsession with parrots is disciplined by his knowledge and love of literature."—Literary Review

"An endlessly surprising account."—ForeWord

From the Author:

Bruce Thomas Boehrer is Bertram H. Davis Professor of English at Florida State University. A life-long parrot fancier, he is the author of Shakespeare Among the Animals: Nature and Society in the Drama of Early Modern England and The Fury of Men's Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0812221044
• ISBN 13: 9780812221046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224