Flocks of Colour
Author(s): Penny Olsen
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 parrota Rainbow Lorikeet collected live on Cooks 1770 voyageto William T. Coopers twentieth-century watercolour of the elusive Night Parrot
Product Information
General Fields
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- : National Library of Australia
- : National Library of Australia
- : September 2013
- : 224mm X 233mm
- : Australia
- : October 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Penny Olsen
- : Paperback
- : 1013
- : 598.710994022
- : 224
- : illustrations