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This scholarly and authoritative e-book examines the cultural and literal heritage, in addition to the usual background and organic wishes and matters of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be obvious as birds who weren't simply the epitome of failure or stupidity but in addition the perfect centerpiece of the social gathering of freedom in the USA 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 among 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 smooth context.

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Sea-Birds introduces us to the sea-birds of the North Atlantic, an ocean during which approximately part the realm sea-bird species were visible at one time or one other. This version 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.

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This alluring selection 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, song, history, politics, economics, faith, geography, physics, chemistry, linguistics, the visual arts, the appearing arts, activities, and comedy.