NEW IN

NATURE:

Egg & Nest: Rosamond Purcell; Linnea S. Hall; René Corado; Foreword by Bernd Heinrich; Photographer Rosamond Purcell (Bookworm; Owl's Head) has trained her lens on the tens of thousands of birds' eggs and nests in the collection of an obscure museum on the California coast. With glosses on the specimen's natural history by curator Linnea Hall, Purcell shows us the eggs and nests in their breathtaking variety of form and ingenuity of construction, from the eggs of the extinct elephantbird to a nests made of guano, lace, or fireworks.; Hardcover October 2009

Audubon: Early Drawings: John James Audubon; Introduction by Richard Rhodes; Notes by Scott V. Edwards; Foreword by Leslie A. Morris; Hardcover September 2008