Final Natural History Essays
Author : Graham Renshaw
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Animal behavior
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Author : Graham Renshaw
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Animal behavior
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Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674061624
Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published.
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Release : 1907
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Author : Margaret Renkl
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1571319875
From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: “Has the makings of an American classic.” —Ann Patchett Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child’s transition to caregiver. And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds—the natural one and our own—“the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut. “Magnificent . . . Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : Graham Renshaw
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Graham Renshaw
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781331080695
Excerpt from Final Natural History Essays The present volume completes a series of sixty Essays dealing with typical examples of the class Mammalia. In this work, as in its predecessors, the subject has throughout been viewed from the combined standpoint of the zoologist and the historian; the photographs are selected from a series of over five hundred negatives taken by the author. The opportunity is here taken of thanking the Press for many long and most encouraging notices of previous studies, and the public for their kind reception of former volumes both at home and abroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robert Plot
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 1677
Category : Natural history
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0820326364
This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. William Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both chronologically and intellectually. Rossi also shows how these writings relate to Thoreau's life and career as both writer and naturalist: his readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin; his failed bid for commercial acceptance of his work; and his pivotal encounter with the utter wildness of the Maine woods. In the essays themselves, readers will see how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms--travel writing and landscape writing--to explore concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena. Thoreau the thinker, observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist--all emerge in this distinctive composite picture of the economic, natural, and spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most important early environmentalists.
Author : Graham RENSHAW
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File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Helen Anne Curry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 131651031X
Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.