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Robin
Robin | Helen F Wilson
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A tuneful natural and cultural history of this globally renowned songbird. The robin is a small bird with a distinctive ruddy breast, at once a British 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, in the United Kingdom, an 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, such as 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 color red shaped the robin's ambivalent associations and unusual origin stories?
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I thoroughly enjoyed Helen Wilson's cultural history of the robin. Focusing on the European robin (Erithacus rubecula), it includes the American robin (incongruously Disneyfied into Mary Poppins's London in A Spoonful of Sugar, though not as alarmingly as Dick van Dyke's cockney accent), the Asian magpie robin, & other species unrelated genetically but which have been given the name.
Lots of wonderful photos & illustrations: a quick, light read.

Bookwomble #BookmarkMatching There's a robin somewhere amongst the variagated flock of garden birds on that bookmark! 🐦‍⬛🔭 2w
LeahBergen This is the best match yet! 😆 2w
Bookwomble @LeahBergen I got game! 🔖🤓 2w
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One of my 2024 Christmas books. Still suitably seasonal as snow is still on the ground, and a robin is an occasional visitor to the garden.
Time to find out a bit more about Britain's favourite bird ❤️🐦‍⬛❤️

BarbaraBB Is it? That‘s nice. It‘s my daughter‘s name 😊 2w
Bookwomble @BarbaraBB A lovely name 😊 Although the wren is the official national bird, in popular surveys it's the robin that usually comes out on top. 2w
Bookwomble @BarbaraBB Fact Check: I lost confidence in my previous statement, rightly so as it turns out! Britain doesn't have an official National Bird. Why I thought it was the wren I no longer remember. In 2015, an unofficial poll to decide the national bird was held, and the good Robin Redbreast won 😊 https://www.countryfile.com/wildlife/britains-official-bird-is-announced 2w
BarbaraBB Lol thank you for checking it out! 🩷 2w
bibliothecarivs @Bookwomble I love this 2w
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Any UK Littens looking for book gifts (or, let's face it, just books!), publisher Reaktion Books has a Christmas sale on, link below. I've just ordered £128 of books for £36, including delivery, due in 2 working days!
I have no interest to declare, other than that of accumulating books 😄📚📚
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/books/special-offers

Luke-XVX Some great Folklore titles! 2mo
Bookwomble @Luke-XVX Yes, and I really love their niche social histories, too. 2mo
bibliothecarivs I hadn't heard of this publisher until I was given Peter Ackroyd's latest history this summer and noticed the unique logo. 2mo
Bookwomble @bibliothecarivs I have a few Reaktion books, mainly from their Animal series, but I've diversified a bit in those I've just ordered. Which of Ackroyd's books were you given? 2mo
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[tagged book]The English Soul: Faith of a Nation
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