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 heritage, in addition to the normal heritage and organic wishes and matters of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be noticeable as birds who weren't basically the epitome of failure or stupidity but additionally the proper centerpiece of the party of freedom in the USA 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 means of one in every of 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.

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 realm 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 an excellent luck of it.

Get The Fascination of Birds: From the Albatross to the PDF

This eye-catching 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 vast 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.