Download PDF by Karen Davis: More than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and

This scholarly and authoritative ebook examines the cultural and literal historical past, in addition to the average historical past and organic wishes and issues of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be obvious as birds who weren't merely the epitome of failure or stupidity but additionally the ideal centerpiece of the party of freedom in the US itself—Thanksgiving.

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The Collins Nature Library is a brand new sequence of vintage British nature writing – reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles were selected by way of one in all Britain’s most sensible recognized and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has additionally written new introductions that placed those classics right into a smooth context.

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Sea-Birds introduces us to the sea-birds of the North Atlantic, an ocean within which approximately part the realm sea-bird species were visible at one time or one other. This variation is unique to newnaturalists. comFew of the better animals have effectively invaded the polar areas and the ocean; yet those who have - the whales, seals and sea-birds - have made a superb good fortune of it.

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This fascinating number of ninety nine essays conveys a wealth of data that might curiosity readers in any respect degrees of birding ability. The essays mix the author's broad box event with reflections drawn from biology, ecology, literature, song, history, politics, economics, faith, geography, physics, chemistry, linguistics, the visual arts, the appearing arts, activities, and comedy.