Catalog - Plume du Paradis

Description

Feathers of Paradise: Journeys of an Extraordinary Bird from New Guinea is a collective work edited by Magali Mélandri and Stéphanie Xatart, offering an exploration of birds of paradise, the iconic species of New Guinea's tropical forests.

With their remarkable plumage-iridescent or jet-black-and their spectacular courtship displays, these birds have fascinated people for centuries far beyond their native territory. The book explores this fascination by tracing the trade routes that, since ancient times, have connected the islands of Southeast Asia to the rest of the world.

By combining multiple approaches-including the history of science, the arts, fashion, philosophy, ornithology, ethnology, and ecology-the book offers a fresh perspective on these species and on the human societies that admire them. It thus invites us to examine the relationships between humans and the living world.