Christine M M Jackson

Evaluation Studies Review Annual

Bird Etchings: The Illustrators and Their Books, 1655-1866

Bird Etchings: The Illustrators and Their Books, 1655-1855

Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History

British Names of Birds

Bird Illustrators: Some Artists in Early Lithography

Collecting Bird Stamps

Wood Engravings of Birds

Pitch Black

Set in the turbulent 1950’s, while Jackie Robinson is shattering racial barriers in the National Baseball League, Benny Turner, a teenager is growing up in the ever-changing nation’s capital, Washington, DC. Despite his thin frame, Benny has extraordinary natural talent that can take him to the nati...

Peacock (Reaktion Books - Animal)

Breathtakingly beautiful and exotic, the peacock inspires devotion among both artists and bird lovers. Its iridescent plumage, when fully displayed, is a delight to behold. The bird itself, as Christine E. Jackson notes in Peacock, appears to enjoy its audience, preening and strutting about within a...

Missouri River 340 First Time Finisher

The Missouri River 340 (MR340), known as the longest non-stop canoe and kayak race in the world, is rated as one of the top 100 American adventures by National Geographic. Covering 340 exhausting miles of the mighty Missouri River, only two-thirds of those paddlers starting in Kansas City, MO finish...

Myth and Ritual in Women's Detective Fiction

The relationship between traditional myths and fairytales and current fiction novels featuring women as crime-solvers is examined in this work. Using theories from Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung and others, the author asserts that plots and imagery in these novels conform to quest narratives outlined in...

Fish in Art

From the Dutch artist Jacob Gillig’s many still lifes to Renoir’s The Fish Monger and Manet’s Fishing, fish have inspired artists for thousands of years. They appear in the work of the old Dutch and Flemish masters as well as in the creations of French, English, and American painters. Yet the social...

Bird Etchings: The Illustrators and Their Books, 1655-1866

Pp. 293, 4 full page color plates, 76 black-and-white illustrations (many are full page), lg 8vo. Publisher's light blue cloth, lettered in brown on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. This work surveys bird-book publishing from just before 1660, when metal plate printing was introduced,...