A Gathering Of Birds
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Author | : Samuel Fanous |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781851244096 |
A Conspiracy of Ravens presents readers with a compendium of collective bird nouns from the distant and not-so-distant past. This book collects more than one hundred of the best and most imaginative expressions and illustrates them with charming woodcuts by the eighteenth-century artist and naturalist Thomas Bewick.
Author | : Donald Culross Peattie |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1595341633 |
A Gathering of Birds is an anthology containing selected prose about birds by nineteen famous authors, such as Hudson, Audubon, and Thoreau, and includes brief biographical information about each. The New York Times called the collection “a delightful ‘gathering’ that Mr. Peattie has presented, and his own contributions to the book make it something new and valuable in this field.”
Author | : James Lipton |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : |
A collection of "terms of venery," collective nouns. The origin of some of the terms is explained, and more than 250 of the terms are illustrated with engravings by Dürer and Grandville and others.
Author | : Helen Macdonald |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0802146694 |
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.
Author | : Steve Palin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : 9781906122546 |
A flock of birds, even a skein of geese perhaps -- but a cete of badgers, or a grist of bees? The collective nouns of animals and birds have long inspired and intrigued us. Many have their roots in medieval times, in particular applied to those creatures hunted by man, and subject to the etiquette of their proper group names. Author Steve Palin has beautifully illustrated and given the background to about fifty different animals and birds with interesting collective nouns -- and listed 420 of them in his glossary. This elegant little book will appeal to all those with a fascination for the English language, those who want the answers for quizzes and crossword puzzles, and those with an interest in animals and birds.
Author | : Jack Griggs |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2002-11-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0060527706 |
A field guide to North American birds presents an identification method that uses panoramic illustrations, range maps, and an organization system based on habitat and characteristics.
Author | : Donald Culross Peattie |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1595341579 |
An Almanac for Moderns contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature. According to a review in Nation, this collection of essays manages to “appeal to the ordinary lover of nature . . . but the turn of Peattie’s mind is poetic and speculative.” The New York Times calls this book “a fine and subtle perception . . . rising at times to an intense lyric beauty . . . a book which the reader will deeply treasure, and to which he will repeatedly return.”
Author | : Chloe Rhodes |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1782433171 |
Collective nouns are one of the most charming oddities of the English language, but have you ever stopped to wonder where these peculiar terms actually came from?
Author | : Natasha Tabori Fried |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Bird watching |
ISBN | : 9781599620237 |
Bird lovers will flock to this whimsical celebration of the avian world. Packed with all things feathered 'The Little Big Book of Birds' offers literature, poetry, trivia, helpful tips, humour, recipes, profiles of respected birders, & advice for the seasoned birder & beginner alike.
Author | : Jonathan K. Alderfer |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1426213735 |
"Companion to National Geographic field guide to the birds of North America"--Cover.