Parrot Culture
Subtitle: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812237931
Subjects: Birds & birdwatching; Birds (ornithology); World - General; History - General History; Pets; Anthropology - Cultural; Birds & Birdwatching - General; History / Europe / Western; Birds; Parrots
First sentence: Early in 327 B.C., after completing his conquest of the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great maneuvered his army across the Hindu Kush and into India.