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Nests

Author :
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452126658
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Nests written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Beals' gorgeous photographs of nests offer a new window onto the life and beauty of birds. Drawn from the collections of the California Academy of Sciences, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, and the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, these birds' nests from around the world offer astonishing insight into the intricate detail wrought by nature's most fastidious architects. Lovely images of nests and eggs are set against rich black backgrounds, and are accompanied by fascinating and informative portraits—conveyed through words and illustrations—of the birds that built them. A beautiful volume, Nests is the perfect gift for birders, bird lovers, and anyone captivated by the fleeting and fascinating splendor of the natural world.

Strange Nests

Author : Jessica McHugh
Publisher : Apokrupha
ISBN 13 : 9781087987934
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Strange Nests written by Jessica McHugh and published by Apokrupha. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the secret about dying arrived scrawny. it's growing stronger & fatter though & whispers, "go mad." Beyond ancient gates, among thorny overgrowth and carnivorous blooms, a raven called Death waits tirelessly for its chance to roost within us. Using scraps of love, remorse, anger, and pain, it weaves. With erasure, memory, and discovery, it binds. And from the garden of wounds that grows within our broken hearts, it builds Strange Nests. In the follow-up to her Bram Stoker and Elgin Award nominated collection, A Complex Accident of Life, Jessica McHugh uses poetry, design, and illustration to unearth the horrific, consumptive, and transformative nature of grief from the pages of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic, The Secret Garden.

Strange Nests

Author : Ann Shepard Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780761304135
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Strange Nests written by Ann Shepard Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nests of 11 birds common in the continental United States are described here, along with stories of strange nests made of things like toy boats and eyeglass frames. The book reveals that even regular nests are strange, when you stop to think about how they are made, all of which makes the strange nests even stranger!

Strange dwellings. Abridged from 'Homes without hands'. Popular ed

Author : John George Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Strange dwellings. Abridged from 'Homes without hands'. Popular ed written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wonderful Nests

Author : John George Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Wonderful Nests written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strange Foods

Author : Jerry Hopkins
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462916767
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Strange Foods written by Jerry Hopkins and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gastrological romp shares tales of gustatory tidbits from six continents. Weaving history and autobiography, author Jerry Hopkins regales with an array of startling facts about the world's eating habits. Strange Foods begins with rat tales from the Roman Empire and imperial China and continues on to stories form locales where rat remains a mouth-watering hors d'oeuvre or hearty entrée today. There are at least 40 serving suggestions for crocodile alone! And there are more than 250 photographs from acclaimed photographer Michael Freeman, whose aim is true and who eats what he shoots. This is gonzo food writing that's sure to change your mind, if not your palate.

Unusual Life Cycles of Birds

Author : Jaclyn Jaycox
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496697014
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book Unusual Life Cycles of Birds written by Jaclyn Jaycox and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you ever heard of a bird that lays its eggs on the ground instead of in a nest? What about a bird that lays eggs in other birds' nests? Young readers will learn all about killdeers, cuckoo birds, and other birds with unusual life cycles"--]cProvided by publisher.

Nests

Author : Susan Ogilvy
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241481724
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Nests written by Susan Ogilvy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisitely illustrated, one-of-a-kind celebration of the hidden beauty of nature and the ingenuity of birds Susan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up her garden after a storm, she found a chaffinch nest - a strange, sodden lump on the grass under a fir tree. She carried it inside and placed it on a newspaper; over the next few hours, as the water drained out of it, the sodden lump blossomed into a mossy jewel. She was amazed, and dropped everything to make a painting of the nest at exact life size. This was the start of an obsession; Ogilvy has since painted more than fifty bird nests from life, each time marvelling at its ingenious construction. Every species of bird has its own vernacular, but sources its materials - most commonly twigs, roots, grasses, reeds, leaves, moss, lichen, hair, feathers and cobwebs, less usually, mattress stuffing and string - according to local availability. Ogilvy would, of course, never disturb nesting birds; instead she relies upon serendipity, which is why all her nests have either been abandoned after fulfilling their purpose, or displaced by strong winds. Although Nests showcases the specimens she has found near her homes in Somerset and on the Isle of Arran, its subject matter is by no means only British, since these same birds can be found all over Europe, Scandinavia and as far afield as Russia, Turkey and North Africa. This wondrous book is all the more special for its rarity. Few modern books exist specifically on the subject of bird nests; the most recent among the author's reference works was published in 1932. Exquisitely designed and packaged, Nests will be an essential addition to the libraries of all nature lovers.

Vesper Flights

Author : Helen Macdonald
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146694
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Vesper Flights written by Helen Macdonald and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.

Strange Harvests

Author : Edward Posnett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399562818
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Strange Harvests written by Edward Posnett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and sometimes breathtaking prose . . . an engrossing read." --NPR An original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the small-scale harvests of seven natural objects In this beguiling book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world--eiderdown, vicuña fiber, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano, and edible birds' nests--that promise ways of using nature without damaging it. To the rest of the world these materials are mere commodities, but to their harvesters they are imbued with myth, tradition, folklore, and ritual, and form part of a shared identity and history. Strange Harvests follows the journeys of these uncommon products from some of the most remote areas of the world to its most populated urban centers, drawing on the voices of the people and little-known communities who harvest, process, and trade them. Blending history, travel writing, and interviews, Posnett sets these human stories against our changing economic and ecological landscape. What do they tell us about capitalism, global market forces, and overharvesting? How do local microeconomies survive in a hyperconnected world? Is it possible for us to live together with different species? Strange Harvests makes us see the world with wonder, curiosity, and new concern.

Our Corner

Author : Annie Besant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Our Corner written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tim Trumble's "Little Mother." [With Illustrations.]

Author : Clara L. Matéaux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Tim Trumble's "Little Mother." [With Illustrations.] written by Clara L. Matéaux and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mysterious Island

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574562
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Island written by Jules Verne and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when Verne is making a comeback in the US as a mainstream literary figure, Wesleyan is pleased to publish a new translation of one of his best-known novels, The Mysterious Island. Although several editions under the same title are in print, most reproduce a bowdlerized nineteenth-century translation which changes the names of the characters, omits several important scenes, and ideologically censors Verne's original text. The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has secretly been helping the settlers. A marvelous adventure story, The Mysterious Island is also notable for its modern retelling of the utopian deserted-island myth, with repeated echoes of Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar William Butcher, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.

A Story Book of Science

Author : Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book A Story Book of Science written by Lydia Hoyt Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guide to an Exhibition of Old Natural History Books

Author : British Museum (Natural History)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to an Exhibition of Old Natural History Books written by British Museum (Natural History) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

City of Weird

Author : Gigi Little
Publisher : Forest Avenue Press
ISBN 13 : 1942436246
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book City of Weird written by Gigi Little and published by Forest Avenue Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers and game show hosts. Set in Portland, Oregon, these thirty stories blend imagination, literary writing, and pop culture into a cohesive weirdness that honors the city’s personality, its bookstores and bridges and solo volcano, as well as the tradition of sci-fi pulp magazines. Including such authors as Rene Denfeld, Justin Hocking, Leni Zumas, and Kevin Sampsell, editor Gigi Little has curated a collection that is quirky, chilling, often profound—and always perfectly weird.

Homes Without Hands

Author : John George Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Homes Without Hands written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: