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

This scholarly and authoritative ebook examines the cultural and literal heritage, in addition to the typical heritage and organic wishes and matters of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be visible as birds who weren't purely the epitome of failure or stupidity but in addition the best 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 via one in every of Britain’s top identified 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 during 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 a superb luck of it.

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This attractive choice of ninety nine essays conveys a wealth of knowledge that would curiosity readers in any respect degrees of birding ability. The essays mix the author's huge box adventure 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.