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

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 obvious as birds who weren't in basic terms the epitome of failure or stupidity but additionally the perfect centerpiece of the party of freedom in the US itself—Thanksgiving.

Adventures Among Birds (Collins Nature Library) by W.H. Hudson,Robert Macfarlane PDF

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 most sensible recognized and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has additionally written new introductions that placed those classics right into a smooth context.

Download e-book for kindle: Sea-Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 28) by James Fisher,R. M. Lockley

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 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.

The Fascination of Birds: From the Albatross to the by William Young PDF

This eye-catching selection of ninety nine essays conveys a wealth of knowledge that may curiosity readers in any respect degrees of birding ability. The essays mix the author's large box event with reflections drawn from biology, ecology, literature, song, history, politics, economics, faith, geography, physics, chemistry, linguistics, the visual arts, the acting arts, activities, and comedy.