Download e-book for iPad: More than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and by Karen Davis

This scholarly and authoritative e-book examines the cultural and literal heritage, in addition to the average background and organic wishes and matters of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be noticeable as birds who weren't in simple terms the epitome of failure or stupidity but additionally the correct centerpiece of the social gathering of freedom in the USA itself—Thanksgiving.

Download e-book for iPad: Adventures Among Birds (Collins Nature Library) by W.H. Hudson,Robert Macfarlane

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

Get Sea-Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 28) PDF

Sea-Birds introduces us to the sea-birds of the North Atlantic, an ocean during which approximately part the realm sea-bird species were obvious 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 an excellent good fortune of it.

New PDF release: The Fascination of Birds: From the Albatross to the

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