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    Robin

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    ISBN: 9781789146264
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    AuthorWilson, Helen F
    Pub Date12/09/2022
    BindingPaperback
    Pages224
    Publisher: reaktion books
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    A superbly illustrated account of Britain's national treasure, the ruddy breasted robin.

    The robin is a small bird with a distinctive ruddy breast, at once a national treasure and a bird with a global reputation. In this superbly illustrated account, Helen F. Wilson looks at many aspects of the cherished robin, from its status as a harbinger of seasonal change and icon of Christmas, to its place in fairy tales, environmental campaigns and scientific discovery.
    In moving between cultural and natural histories, Robin asks wide-ranging questions: how did the robin's name travel the world? Why is the robin so melancholy? Who was Cock Robin? And how has the history of the colour red shaped the robin's ambivalent associations and unusual origin stories?