"You\'ll initially find it hard to believe that these pictures are real--but they are.
Thirty-nine unique species of birds-of-paradise, all phot.
Fifty-one field sites.
Eighteen expeditions.
This is a book like no other book." --Jared Diamond, ornithologist and author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Eight years.
The birds\' behavior, richly described in the text, is as remarkable as their appearance.
These are the Most beautiful photographs of the world\'s Most beautiful birds. "You\'ll initially find it hard to believe that these pictures are real--but they are