Taryn Simon
Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies
In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel's lead character. He found it flat and colourless, a fitting choice for a character intended to be anonymous. . . a blunt instrument in the hands of the government. In Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies, Taryn Simon (*1975) casts herself as James Bond (1900-1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the twenty-four films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the b…
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Weitere Autoren: Logan, Joseph (Gestaltet) / Simon, Taryn (Gestaltet) / Baumbach, Nico (Text von)
- ISBN: 978-3-7757-4092-0
- EAN: 9783775740920
- Produktnummer: 18992748
- Verlag: Thames and Hudson
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 606 S.
- Masse: H29.4 cm x B19.7 cm x D4.3 cm 2'135 g
- Abbildungen: Raster, nicht spezifiziert
- Gewicht: 2135
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