Baby Birds and Beasts


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Birds, Beasts and Relatives


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The follow-up to My Family and Other Animals and the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s memoir of his family’s time on a Greek island. In the years before World War II, Gerald Durrell’s family left the gloomy shores of England for the sun-drenched island of Corfu. Against this picturesque backdrop, Durrell fondly recalls his family’s disorderly household and outrageous antics, including their interactions with locals of both human and animal varieties. After a boyhood spent studying zoology and acquiring the island’s exotic insects, reptiles, birds, mammals, and sea creatures as pets, Durrell’s budding naturalism would later bloom into a passion for conservation that would last a lifetime. Filled with clever observations, amusing anecdotes, and childlike wonder, Birds, Beasts and Relatives is half nature guide, half coming-of-age tale, and all charmingly funny memoir. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.




Birds and Beasts of Ancient Latin America


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Elizabeth P. Benson provides an engaging overview of the depiction of animals in the pre-Columbian art of Latin America.




Birds, Beasts, and the Third Thing


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A collection of short poems, mainly on themes suggested by the natural world.




Ten Birds Meet a Monster


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When ten little birds encounter a monster in the house, they use various pieces of laundry to make themselves look bigger and scarier to ward the monster away.







Baby Birds at Home


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Birds, Beasts, Critters and Creatures


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Take a deep look inside the "Belly of the Beast," and uncover how the animals lived inside Noah's remarkable Ark. Children and parents, alike, will have endless fun flipping through 40 pages of beautifully hand-drawn illustrations, all while taking a look at one of the Bible's oldest tales.




The Bedside Book of Beasts


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A lavishly illustrated companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationships between predators and prey, drawing on mythology, nature writings, and other sources to provide coverage of both real and fictional creatures.




Animal Musicalities


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Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music's taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides to show how animal song has become the starting point for enduring evaluations of species, races, and cultures. By examining the influential efforts made by a small group of men and women to define human diversity in relation to animal voices, this book raises profound questions about the creation of modern human identity, and the foundations of modern humanism.




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