Swift as a Shadow
Swift as a Shadow
Editorial Reviews
Village Voice Editors' Choice
"Purcell, ever seeking oddness, turns her lens upon the Blue Antelope, the Pig-Footed Bandicoot, and other extinct and endangered animals preserved in the Natural History Museum of the Netherlands. Her photographs capture their haunting beauty and intense, glassy-eyed stares. Museum curators provide brief histories of each species' demise."
Star Tribune
"Purcell captures brilliantly the plumage of some creatures that will never take flight again."
Swift as a Shadow
Swift as a Shadow,Rosamond Wolff Purcell,Houghton Mifflin Company,0395892287,Birds & Birdwatching - General,Endangered species,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Extinct animals,Nature,Nature & Wildlife,Nature/Ecology,Photo Essays,Pictorial works,Taxonomic Zoology,Animals,Photography
Discount Books:
- Swifts : A Guide to the Swifts and Treeswifts of the World, Second Edition
- The Auks: Alcidae (Bird Families of the World)
- The Cooper's Hawk: A Cross Timbers Chronicle
- The Ecology of Migrant Birds: A Neotropical Perspective
- The Hawaiian Honeycreepers : Drepanidinae (Bird Families of the World)
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds of Britain, Europe and Africa
- The Life History of a Texas Birdwatcher: Connie Hagar of Rockport
- The Megapodes : MegaPodiidae (Bird Families of the World)
- The Mottled Duck
- The New York Times Book of Birds (New York Times)
Discount Books
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