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

This scholarly and authoritative publication examines the cultural and literal heritage, in addition to the normal historical past and organic wishes and matters of turkeys. Davis explores how turkeys got here to be obvious as birds who weren't in simple terms the epitome of failure or stupidity but in addition the ideal centerpiece of the social gathering of freedom in the USA 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 via one in all Britain’s most sensible identified and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has additionally written new introductions that placed those classics right into a sleek context.

Sea-Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 28) by James Fisher,R. M. Lockley PDF

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 a superb luck of it.

Download e-book for kindle: The Fascination of Birds: From the Albatross to the by William Young

This fascinating 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 huge box adventure with reflections drawn from biology, ecology, literature, track, history, politics, economics, faith, geography, physics, chemistry, linguistics, the visual arts, the appearing arts, activities, and comedy.