Flocks of ColourWhat name could be a more apt description of Australia than ‘The Land of
Parrots’, a name inspired by late sixteenth-century maps showing a
southern region labelled ‘Psittacorum regio’? This beautiful book takes a
close look at parrots in Australia, from the first published
illustration of an Australian parrot—a Rainbow Lorikeet collected live
on Cook’s 1770 voyage—to William T. Cooper’s twentieth-century
watercolour of the elusive Night Parrot. |
