Ebook: Flocks of Colour
Author: Olsen Penny
- Tags: Parrots--Australia, Parrots, Pictorial works, Parrots -- Australia -- Pictorial works, Australia
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: National Library of Australia
- City: Canberra;ACT;Australia
- Language: English
- epub
What name could be a more apt description of Australia than 'The Land of Parrots', a name inspired by late sixteenth-century maps showing a southern region labelled 'Psittacorum regio'? This beautiful book takes a close look at parrots in Australia, from the first published illustration of an Australian parrot-a Rainbow Lorikeet collected live on Cook's 1770 voyage-to William T. Cooper's twentieth-century watercolour of the elusive Night Parrot. With introductory essays by ornithologist Penny Olsen, Flocks of Colour covers two and a quarter centuries of discovery and illustration of Australia'
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