HUMMINGBIRDS - WITH 70 ULTRA HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHS IN FULL COLOR by Crawford H Greenewalt
"A TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT... AN ARTISTIC TRIUMPH.”
In these words, Dr. Dean Amadon, Curator of Birds at The American Museum of Natural History, hails publication of "Hummingbirds." The artistic merits of this work are evident. The extraordinary extent of its scientific significance, however, lies in the careful development of new data on this littleknown family.
The hummingbird shows its true colors _ under nder the the most most fleeting fleeting of circumstances. Only for the briefest of moments and only at the most precise angle of reflection does this creature, drab and undistinguished a second before, become, in Audubon's words, a "glittering fragment of the rainbow." Never before has so wide a segment of the species-rich hummingbird So family Idiy veen been exposed to the camera.
No ordinary photographer, and no ordinary man, could have taken such photographs.
1960 Hardcover
Condition - Good (Dustcover repaired)
BD (Birds)
"A TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT... AN ARTISTIC TRIUMPH.”
In these words, Dr. Dean Amadon, Curator of Birds at The American Museum of Natural History, hails publication of "Hummingbirds." The artistic merits of this work are evident. The extraordinary extent of its scientific significance, however, lies in the careful development of new data on this littleknown family.
The hummingbird shows its true colors _ under nder the the most most fleeting fleeting of circumstances. Only for the briefest of moments and only at the most precise angle of reflection does this creature, drab and undistinguished a second before, become, in Audubon's words, a "glittering fragment of the rainbow." Never before has so wide a segment of the species-rich hummingbird So family Idiy veen been exposed to the camera.
No ordinary photographer, and no ordinary man, could have taken such photographs.
1960 Hardcover
Condition - Good (Dustcover repaired)
BD (Birds)
"A TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT... AN ARTISTIC TRIUMPH.”
In these words, Dr. Dean Amadon, Curator of Birds at The American Museum of Natural History, hails publication of "Hummingbirds." The artistic merits of this work are evident. The extraordinary extent of its scientific significance, however, lies in the careful development of new data on this littleknown family.
The hummingbird shows its true colors _ under nder the the most most fleeting fleeting of circumstances. Only for the briefest of moments and only at the most precise angle of reflection does this creature, drab and undistinguished a second before, become, in Audubon's words, a "glittering fragment of the rainbow." Never before has so wide a segment of the species-rich hummingbird So family Idiy veen been exposed to the camera.
No ordinary photographer, and no ordinary man, could have taken such photographs.
1960 Hardcover
Condition - Good (Dustcover repaired)
BD (Birds)
1960 Hardcover
Condition - Good
BD