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Aquellas Aves de Pompeya: Un Paseo Ornitológico en el Año 79 d.C.

Birding in Ancient Pompeii: Anno Domini 79

Editor: Karin Faber

2016

Bilingual: Spanish / English

"A comparative study of the birds depicted on Pompeian wall paintings and the actual ones, photographed in their natural habitats. The research is introduced by both a description of the Roman 'domus' and the mythological, nourishing and festive roles played by birds in Ancient Rome. With many illustrations and close-ups of 50 selected birds."

The Griffons of the Nebrodi Mountains / Grifoni Dei Monti Nebrodi

Cannavale Alfonso

Bilinual: Italian / English

2013

A photographic portrait to the griffon population of the Nebrodi Mountains in Sicily, Italy.

Wild Italy

Giulio Ielardi

2011

"This guide lists the most important Italian natural resources and it provides concrete and detailed help to lead nature lovers, birdwatchers, nature photographers, to the right place at the right time."

Nature and History in Modern Italy

Editor: Marco Armiero, Marcus Hall

2010

"Is Italy "il bel paese" - the beautiful country - where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and nature? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator's vision of Italy. The fifteen essays in "Nature and History in Modern Italy" investigate that nation's long experience in managing domesticated rather than wild natures and offer insight into these conflicting visions. Italians shaped their land in the most literal sense, producing the landscape, sculpting its heritage, embedding memory in nature, and rendering the two different visions inseparable. The interplay of Italy's rich human history and its dramatic natural diversity is a subject with broad appeal to a wide range of readers."

Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism

Tracey Heatherington

2010

"Shared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national, ethnic, religious, and cultural boundaries, yet conservation efforts often pit the interests of historically rooted or indigenous people against the state and international environmental organizations, eroding local autonomy while 'saving' rural land for animals and tourists. "Wild Sardinia's" examination of the cultural politics around nature conservation and the traditional Commons on an Italian island illustrates the complexities of environmental stewardship. Long known as the home of fiercely independent shepherds (often typecast as rustics, bandits, or eco-vandals), as well as wild mouflon sheep, magnificent eagles, and rare old oak forests, the town of Orgosolo has for several decades received notoriety through local opposition to Gennargentu National Park. Interweaving rich ethnographic description of highland central Sardinia with analysis grounded in political ecology and reflexive cultural critique, "Wild Sardinia" illuminates the ambivalent and open-ended meanings of many Sardinians' acts and memories of 'resistance' to environmental projects. This groundbreaking case study of the tension between living cultural landscapes and the emerging ecological imaginaries envisioned through policy discourses and new media - the 'global dreamtimes of environmentalism' - has relevance far beyond its Mediterranean locale."

A Birdwatcher's Guide to Italy

Luciano Ruggieri and Igor Festari

2005

"In this work, the site account section covers 100 different important birding spots, and a further 40 are briefly cited as nearby areas, giving detailed information about the best time for birding, how to get there, site maps and species lists. This book however, is not merely a locality guide. 'The most important Italian birds' section deals with 119 different species giving concise information about their distribution, status and habitat. A very useful 'where to watch' paragraph helps the reader to find, specifically, the right birding site. A chapter about endemic or sub-endemic sub-species for Italy is also provided. If you are visiting Italy for reasons other than birding and have limited free time, this guide helps you to choose the nearest and most interesting site.Alternatively, a more complete trip to Italy can be planned to take in the most important Italian species including Pygmy Cormorant, Rock and Barbary Partridge, Lanner, Wallcreeper, Pine Bunting, Isabelline Wheatear and many others."

Wild Italy

Tim Jepson

2nd edition

2005

"Say the word Italy, and a scene lights up in the mind: a cafe table in St Mark's Square, perhaps, a Renaissance fresco, a Tuscan villa on a hilltop. There are many books about these things. In Wild Italy, Tim Jepson takes a different tack, leaving the well-worn tourist haunts behind him in search of fresher pleasures. He explores the whole country from its Alp-studded waist to its distant toe kicking the football of Sicily towards Africa. Like an unhurried lover, he works his way down thigh and shin, following the line of the Apennines, locating the pressure points between continental and peninsular Italy, pinching to see where the prosperous north gives way to the Mediterranean south, looking for those last innocent stretches of littoral, down one side and up the other, where the bathers have not set up their parasols. Having lived in Rome and trekked the entire peninsula, he knows the secret places that are as oxygen to a suffocating man after the murderous drive through the suburbs of Milan or Naples. He has picked out the loveliest spots in Sicily and Sardinia and plotted the last few pinpricks of Italian territory, the scattered islands off the Tunisian coast which are some of the most isolated and primitive places in Europe. As well as having an extensive knowledge of wild places, he also has the ability to write about them with passion."

Where to Watch Birds in Italy

Lega Italiana Protezione Uccelli

1994

"Produced by the LIPU, a leading bird conservation organization in Italy, and published in association with the RSPB, this text represents a joint conservation initiative. 103 sites are covered in this guide which aims to highlight areas of interest to a visiting birdwatcher."

The Birds of Sicily: An Annotated Checklist

Carmelo Iapichino and Bruno Massa

1989

A 170 page annotated checklist with black and white illustrations, maps and tables.

Birds of the Mediterranean and Alps

Lars Jonsson

Croom Helm

1982

"This is the fifth book in the series covering a variety of habitat and natural environments in Europe. This book focuses mainly on the European countries found along the Mediterranean, but a few birds found only around Turkey and southwards are included, such as the Black-headed (aka, White-spectacled) Bulbul. Not all birds found near the Mediterranean are included. To keep the size of the book smaller, the author included a selection of 160 birds typically not found in the northern parts of Europe."