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

This scholarly and authoritative booklet examines the cultural and literal background, in addition to the typical background and organic wishes and matters of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be obvious as birds who weren't in basic terms the epitome of failure or stupidity but in addition the ideal centerpiece of the occasion 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 through one in all Britain’s top 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 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 a superb luck of it.

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This pleasing choice 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 event with reflections drawn from biology, ecology, literature, track, history, politics, economics, faith, geography, physics, chemistry, linguistics, the visual arts, the appearing arts, activities, and comedy.