A Gathering Of Birds
Download A Gathering Of Birds full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free A Gathering Of Birds ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
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 | : David Allen Sibley |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0525520295 |
The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing—and why: "Can birds smell?"; "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?"; "Do robins 'hear' worms?" "The book's beauty mirrors the beauty of birds it describes so marvelously." —NPR In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin. David Sibley's exacting artwork and wide-ranging expertise bring observed behaviors vividly to life. (For most species, the primary illustration is reproduced life-sized.) And while the text is aimed at adults—including fascinating new scientific research on the myriad ways birds have adapted to environmental changes—it is nontechnical, making it the perfect occasion for parents and grandparents to share their love of birds with young children, who will delight in the big, full-color illustrations of birds in action. Unlike any other book he has written, What It's Like to Be a Bird is poised to bring a whole new audience to David Sibley's world of birds.
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 | : 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.