Download e-book for kindle: 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 background, in addition to the average background and organic wishes and issues of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be visible as birds who weren't purely the epitome of failure or stupidity but additionally the right 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 recognized and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has additionally written new introductions that positioned those classics right into a sleek 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 noticeable 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 luck of it.

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

This beautiful 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 huge box event 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.