Author: James Johonnot
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-05-23
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 3732698009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: Friends in Feathers and Fur by James Johonnot
Author: Janet Halfmann
Publisher: Arbordale Pub
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781607180869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sophie dreams of wild animals losing their fur, feathers, scales, and skin, and helps them all find their proper coverings again.
Author: Audrey Penn
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780439221153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A curious cat has been warned to stay away from a nest with duck eggs in it, but when a storm puts the eggs in danger, the cat's actions have surprising consequences.
Author: James Johonnot
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-07
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9781490982601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A machine, turned by a crank, has been made to speak words, but nothing below a human being has been able to get thought from a written or printed page and convey it to others. To make the machine requires a vast amount of labor expended upon matter; to get the thought requires the awakening of a human spirit. The work of the machine is done when the crank stops; the mental work, through internal volition, goes on to ever higher achievements. In schools much labor has been spent in trying to produce human speaking-machines. Words are built up out of letters; short words are grouped into inane sentences such as are never used; and sentences are arranged into unnatural and insipid discourse. To grasp the thin ghost of the thought, the little human spirit must reverse its instinct to reach toward the higher, and, mole-like, burrow downward.
Author: James Johonnot
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-13
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors: For Young Folks" by James Johonnot is book II of James Jahonnot's Natural History Series. The book covers common household, farmyard, and wild animals including chickens, ducks, geese, doves, birds of prey, mice, squirrels, owls, frogs, porcupines, and many more. This book was and continues to be a useful and accessible way for children to start learning about nature and animals around the world.
Author: James Johonnot
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-07-27
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781451011524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors: For Young Folks A machine, turned by a crank, has been made to speak words, but nothing below a human being has been able to get thought from a written or printed page and convey it to others. To make the machine requires a vast amount of labor expended upon matter to get the thought requires the awakening of a human spirit. The work of the ma chine is done when the crank stops. 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: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1101981628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Author: William Grimes
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 2002-03-25
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1466822139
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Boy Meets Bird. Boy Gets Bird. Boy Loses Bird An Urban Folktale. One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of leaving, and it quickly made a place for itself among the society of resident stray cats. Before long, the chicken became the Chicken, and it began to arouse not only Grimes's protective impulses but also his curiosity. He discovered that chickens were domesticated first as fighters, not food; that egg-laying is triggered by exposure to light; that chickens were a fashion statement in Victorian days. He began to probe the mysteries of gallinaceous behavior, learning to distinguish a dust bath from a death dance and how to cater to his guest's eclectic palate. And when the Chicken began to repay his hospitality with five or six custom-laid eggs per week, Grimes had an answer to the age-old conundrum of which came first: the Chicken. And then one day, obeying some bird-brained logic of its own -- or perhaps the victim of fowl play -- the Chicken vanished, leaving Grimes eggless but with this funny, enlightening, and heartwarming tale to tell.