Ferdinand Bauer's Remarkable Birds by Jonathan Elphick #literature From the ice-blue depths of

From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers

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Having been raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast

and the Panama Canal to Mozambique's railways and Korea's sacred Baekdu-daegan mountain range

Ferdinand Bauer's Remarkable Birds by Jonathan Elphick #literature From the ice-blue depths ofIn 1786, the renowned Austrian natural history artist Ferdinand Bauer travelled to Italy and the Levant with his employer John Sibthorp, Oxford Professor of Botany. The exquisite watercolours he subsequently created from meticulous drawings made during the trip are among the finest examples of natural history illustration. Bauers botanical paintings, published eventually in the unrivalled Flora Graeca, are well known. But this extraordinarily