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

This scholarly and authoritative ebook examines the cultural and literal background, in addition to the ordinary heritage and organic wishes and matters of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be obvious as birds who weren't basically the epitome of failure or stupidity but additionally the right centerpiece of the occasion of freedom in the United States itself—Thanksgiving.

New PDF release: Adventures Among Birds (Collins Nature Library)

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

Download e-book for iPad: 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 obvious 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 a superb luck of it.

Read e-book online The Fascination of Birds: From the Albatross to the PDF

This attractive choice 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 broad 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.