The Conjuror's Bird
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The Conjuror's Bird is a 2005 novel by British author Martin Davies
which fictionalises the early life of botanist Joseph Banks
and the search to find the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta
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ISBN 978-1-4000-9734-0
Martin Davies (writer)
Martin Davies is a British author. His most recent work includes The Unicorn Road and a book about Joseph Banks and the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta, entitled The Conjuror's Bird . He is also the author of two mystery novels about Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper Mrs. Hudson: Mrs. Hudson and the Spirits'...
which fictionalises the early life of botanist Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage . Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him,...
and the search to find the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta
Bay Thrush
The Bay "Thrush", also known as the Bay Starling or the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta, is an extinct bird species of uncertain taxonomic relationships that once lived on the island of Raiatea , the second largest of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.-History:The species is known only from a 1774...
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ISBN 978-1-4000-9734-0