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

This scholarly and authoritative publication examines the cultural and literal background, in addition to the traditional background and organic wishes and matters of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be noticeable as birds who weren't purely the epitome of failure or stupidity but in addition the ideal centerpiece of the party of freedom in the US itself—Thanksgiving.

Download e-book for kindle: 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 by way of one in all Britain’s most sensible identified and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has additionally written new introductions that placed those classics right into a smooth context.

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

Sea-Birds introduces us to the sea-birds of the North Atlantic, an ocean within which approximately part the area 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 an excellent good fortune of it.

Download e-book for iPad: The Fascination of Birds: From the Albatross to the by William Young

This desirable choice of ninety nine essays conveys a wealth of knowledge that might 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.