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Verlag: Wellington: David Bateman Ltd, 2024., 2024
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, AustralienAndrew Isles Natural History Books
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Quarto, laminated boards,279 pp.,colour illustrations by Raymond Ching. "I never did see Huia foraging about on the trunk of a tall tree fern, but I knew a man who had". Ray Ching, 2024. The beautiful forest-dwelling Huia, presumed extinct these hundred or more years, hold a special place in the affections of New Zealanders. The… old forests are silent now to the call of these beautiful birds, the male with its strong sharp beak, she with her beak so gracefully curved. Left with us now are just the study-skins collected in museums, some radio-recorded whistles remembered and the diaries and letters kept from those who left just before us who had seen for themselves this prince of the forest. 'The Huia and our Tears' is Ray Chingâs memoir of these birds held in his studio in the 1960âs, their specimen skins and feathers, and his meeting and conversations with the man who had trapped and taken them from their secret valley some fifty years earlier, the last of their kind. Includes W.J. Phillips "The book of the Huia", published in1963.
