How a colonial trip to Palestine spurred modern ornithology – and left it with imperial baggage
How a colonial trip to Palestine spurred modern ornithology – and left it with imperial baggage: Palestine’s natural splendour offered a landscape ripe for scientific “discovery”, description and expropriation by European imperial powers in the 19th century. And in the 1860s an English vicar named Henry Baker Tristram claimed its birds. Tristram was a co-founder …
