colonelboris
Right way up again
I've seen it in French in Switzerland and, like the German version, only ever in hardback.
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Collins Bird Guide 2nd Ed; Reviewed (1 Viewer)
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I've seen it in French in Switzerland and, like the German version, only ever in hardback.
McMadd
You should see the other bloke...
It was available in Finnish too first time around...not checked bookshop to see if new version is about or not yet
aegithalos
Well-known member
Have seen it also in French, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch and Finnish. Which leaves four ... I'm guessing Icelandic, Polish, Hungarian, Italian.
Keith
Edward
Umimmak
Not Icelandic. We generally use the English version. I met two Israeli birders in Iceland a couple of years ago who had it in Hebrew. It was fun to flick through from right to left.
Unfortunately, it's not out in Italian, either
bitterntwisted
Graham Howard Shortt
It was available in Hungarian last time out.
Still two needed to get to thirteen. Russian? Greek?
Graham
Still two needed to get to thirteen. Russian? Greek?
Graham
Richard Klim
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Nearly there...
- Swedish
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Norwegian
- Spanish
- ???
- ???
Richard
Richard Klim
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That's rather ironic, given that both the 1st and 2nd editions of the English version were printed in Italy!
Richard
Pedro Ramalho
Well-known member
The 1º edition was translated to Portuguese.
Richard Klim
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Thanks, Pedro (and good guess, jacana). Just one to go now (Welsh?
)- Swedish
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Norwegian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- ???
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Edward
Umimmak
Esperanto?
Danish? Going with the strong Scandinavian theme...
Danish is on the list. I think Greek and Russian must be the leading contenders for the missing place. Unless the Norwegian version is available in both official written forms of Norwegian!
birdboybowley
Well-known member.....apparently so ;)
So when's it going to be translated into textspeak so today's teens might be interested in it....
Blue Alert
Well-known member
Just rec'd my copy. Ahhh, what a tremendous book. Nice to see the Tufted Puffin mentioned at the back!
EDIT: I actually bought two copies. One for me, and one for my Grandma who - at 81 - can no longer get out to see birds. She used to twitch with her late husband all the time before he died about 15 years ago. I've never seen someone so elated by the gift of a bird book. She immediately started flicking through and telling stories based on the birds she looked up - Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Great Skua, Purple Sandpiper. Basically, she was thrilled at such a great book that one can read at leisure (great for her now) as well as use in the field. Fantastic.
EDIT: I actually bought two copies. One for me, and one for my Grandma who - at 81 - can no longer get out to see birds. She used to twitch with her late husband all the time before he died about 15 years ago. I've never seen someone so elated by the gift of a bird book. She immediately started flicking through and telling stories based on the birds she looked up - Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Great Skua, Purple Sandpiper. Basically, she was thrilled at such a great book that one can read at leisure (great for her now) as well as use in the field. Fantastic.
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Richard Klim
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Wonderful! Unfortunately, although my mum's still a year away from 81, I reckon all the species would just look like blurry LBJs to her until another large-format edition is published...
Richard
bitterntwisted
Graham Howard Shortt
Thanks, Pedro (and good guess, jacana). Just one to go now (Welsh?
Richard
- Swedish
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Norwegian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- ???
Was the Princeton edition identical or could Collins be claiming US English as a translation to bolster the stats? (Don't laugh, when we quote number of languages dealt with by our service centres we count Brazilian Portuguese and US English separately.)
Graham
Richard Klim
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One recent example that amused me (but gives a disturbing insight into world geography as seen from New Jersey) was Norman Arlott's 2-volume 'Birds of the Palearctic' - which Princeton duly translated into the dumbed-down, inaccurate, and less concise 'Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan' (casually ignoring North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Himalaya...). :eek!:
Richard
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