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Author : John Yow
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780807888780

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The Armchair Birder by John Yow Pdf

While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging and sometimes irreverent vignettes, Yow reveals the fascinating lives of the birds we see nearly every day. Following the seasons, he covers forty-two species, discussing the improbable, unusual, and comical aspects of his subjects' lives. Yow offers his own observations, anecdotes, and stories as well as those of America's classic bird writers, such as John James Audubon, Arthur Bent, and Edward Forbush. This unique addition to bird literature combines the fascination of bird life with the pleasure of good reading.

Author : Guy Mountfort,Norman Arlott
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Birds
ISBN : 0002198355

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Rare Birds of the World by Guy Mountfort,Norman Arlott Pdf

Author : Vernon R. L Head
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781681771069

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The Rarest Bird in the World by Vernon R. L Head Pdf

Part detective story, part love affair, and pure adventure storytelling at its best, a celebration of the thrill of exploration and the lure of wild places during the search for the elusive Nechisar Nightjar. In 1990, a group of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar in Ethiopia. On that expedition, they collected more than two dozen specimens, saw more than three hundred species of birds, and a plethora of rare butterflies, dragonflies, reptiles, mammals, and plants. As they were gathering up their findings, a wing of an unidentified bird was packed into a brown paper bag. It was to become the most famous wing in the world. This wing would set the world of science aflutter. Experts were mystified. The wing was entirely unique. It was like nothing they had ever seem before. Could a new species be named based on just one wing? After much discussion, a new species was announced: Nechisar Nightjar, or Camprimulgus Solala, which means "only wing." And so birdwatchers like Vernon began to dream. Twenty-two years later, he joins an expedition of four to find this rarest bird in the world. In this gem of nature writing, Vernon captivates and enchants as he recounts the searches by spotlight through the Ethiopian plains, and allows the reader to mediate on nature, exploration, our need for wild places, and the human compulsion to name things. The Rarest Bird in the World is a celebration of a certain way of seeing the world, and will bring out the explorer in in everyone who reads it.

Author : Anita Albus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Birds in art
ISBN : 1459340396

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On Rare Birds by Anita Albus Pdf

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771060076

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The Strange Bird by Jeff VanderMeer Pdf

The Strange Bird--from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer--expands and weaves deeply into the world of his "thorough marvel" of a novel, Borne. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory--she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape. But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology--satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm that has populated the world with experiments both failed and successful that have outlived the corporation itself: a pack of networked foxes, a giant predatory bear. But of the many creatures she encounters with whom she bears some kind of kinship, it is the humans--all of them now simply scrambling to survive--who are the most insidious, who still see her as simply something to possess, to capture, to trade, to exploit. Never to understand, never to welcome home. With The Strange Bird, Jeff VanderMeer has done more than add another layer, a new chapter, to his celebrated novel Borne. He has created a whole new perspective on the world inhabited by Rachel and Wick, the Magician, Mord, and Borne--a view from above, of course, but also a view from deep inside the mind of a new kind of creature who will fight and suffer and live for the tenuous future of this world.

Author : David R. Zimmerman
Publisher : Coward McCann
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Birds
ISBN : 0698106717

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To Save a Bird in Peril by David R. Zimmerman Pdf

Ten remarkable accounts of people working to save rare birds from extinction.

Author : Cynthia Bowles
Publisher : Trafford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1412036380

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A Rare Bird, Indeed! by Cynthia Bowles Pdf

A Rare Bird, Indeed! is a story about the Kiwi, the wingless, flightless bird of New Zealand, believed for many years to be extinct.

Author : Nancy Plain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803284012

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This Strange Wilderness by Nancy Plain Pdf

Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image--lifelike and life size--rendered in vibrant color. Audubon was also an explorer, a woodsman, a hunter, an entertaining and prolific writer, and an energetic self-promoter. Through talent and dogged determination, he rose from backwoods obscurity to international fame. In This Strange Wilderness, award-winning author Nancy Plain brings together the amazing story of this American icon's career and the beautiful images that are his legacy. Before Audubon, no one had seen, drawn, or written so much about the animals of this largely uncharted young country. Aware that the wilderness and its wildlife were changing even as he watched, Audubon remained committed almost to the end of his life "to search out the things which have been hidden since the creation of this wondrous world." This Strange Wilderness details his art and writing, transporting the reader back to the frontiers of early nineteenth-century America.

Author : Edward Riche
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385658621

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Rare Birds by Edward Riche Pdf

Now a Major Motion Picture from Lions Gate Films, Starring William Hurt, Molly Parker and Andy Jones Dave Purcell is ready to call it quits on his marriage and his restaurant, The Auk. His wife has left for a posting at a Washington D.C. think tank and the restaurant, built on a remote cliff on Push Cove, Newfoundland, never really took off. Dave spends his days consuming the rare delights of his well-stocked wine cellar and larder. All seems lost until Dave’s neighbour, Alphonse Murphy, comes up with an ingenious scheme to save The Auk.

Author : Eric Hirschfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 200?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:763093221

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Rare Birds Yearbook by Eric Hirschfeld Pdf

Author : Ian Lewington,Per Alström,Peter Colston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:256902935

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A Field Guide to the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe by Ian Lewington,Per Alström,Peter Colston Pdf

Author : Vernon R. L. Head
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Bird watchers
ISBN : 1431410926

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The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World by Vernon R. L. Head Pdf

Author : Guy Mountfort
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0828907889

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Rare Birds of the World 1991 by Guy Mountfort Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Extinct birds
ISBN : 0620084251

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The Rare Birds of Southern Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marion Poschmann
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770566286

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The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Readers who like quiet, meditative works will enjoy this strangely affecting buddy story." —Publishers Weekly "Rather than tying up the loose ends, she leaves them beautifully fluttering in the wind, and you do not feel lost in that experience. The writing is poetic and it’s worth savouring." —Angela Caravan, Shrapnel A bad dream leads to a strange poetic pilgrimage through Japan in this playful and profound Booker International-shortlisted novel. Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message, and unable to even look at her, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Keen to cure his malaise, he decides to find solace in nature the way Basho did. Suddenly, from Gilbert's directionless crisis there emerges a purpose: a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the poet to see the moon rise over the pine islands of Matsushima. Although, of course, unlike the great poet, he will take a train. Along the way he falls into step with another pilgrim: Yosa, a young Japanese student clutching a copy of The Complete Manual of Suicide . Together, Gilbert and Yosa travel across Basho's disappearing Japan, one in search of his perfect ending and the other a new beginning. Serene, playful, and profound, The Pine Islands is a story of the transformations we seek and the ones we find along the way.