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Parrot culture : our 2,500-year-long fascination with the world's most talkative bird

Traces the unusual history of parrots from their introduction in the Graeco-Roman world as items of oriental luxury, through the great age of New World exploration, to the contemporary ecological crisis of globalism

Print Book, English, 2004
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2004