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Subject: JA Leach's An Australian Bird Book
Hi
Many of you will remember JA Leach’s An Australian Bird Book, our oldest birding field guide. I’ve just published an article on it in
Historical Records of Australian Science, explaining why it was an important book (even if it wasn’t a very good field guide). You can access it here
https://www.publish.csiro.au/HR/HR21010 It’s Open Access so you can download the PDF if you like, or read it in HTML.
Hope you enjoy it
Russell
Russell McGregor
Adjunct Professor of History
College of Arts, Society and Education
James Cook University
My latest book, Idling in Green Places: A life of Alec Chisholm, was shortlisted for
the 2020 National Biography Award.
My latest Conversation piece is on what the extinction of the Paradise Parrot means to us today:
https://theconversation.com/100-years-ago-this-man-discovered-an-exquisite-parrot-thought-to-be-extinct-what-came-next-is-a-tragedy-we-must-not-repeat-171939.
My latest article, published in Arcadia, is on
‘The Tragedy of the Paradise Parrot’.
