The Running Sky

The Running Sky PDF

Author: Tim Dee

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1784871141

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The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee maps his encounters with birds over four decades of tracking them around the world. He tells of familiar but near-global birds like sparrows, starlings and ravens, and exotic species, like electrically coloured hummingbirds in California and bee-eaters in Africa. Dee restores us to the primacy of looking, and takes us outside, again and again, to marvel at what is flying above us.

The Birds and the Bees [eBook - Biblioboard]

The Birds and the Bees [eBook - Biblioboard] PDF

Author: Sèphera Girón

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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We barely notice them, though they are all around us, flying overhead, singing ... or just watching. But lately Gabrielle has been noticing the birds. Especially the mysterious black birds that seem to call to her, to follow her, to dive at her. They stare at her with their soulless, black eyes. Soon incidents with birds begin to appear on the news. People are getting hurt. The birds are out of control. Then Gabrielle notices that bees, too, are becoming more dangerous ... Birds, bees, hornets, wasps ... The city is under siege. Nature has run amok. Death hovers in the sky, then swoops down on the unsuspecting in a swarm. How can mankind fight an enemy that numbers in the billions? Could Gabrielle somehow hold the key?

The Birds and the Bees

The Birds and the Bees PDF

Author: Sèphera Girón

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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We barely notice them, though they are all around us, flying overhead, singing … or just watching. But lately Gabrielle has been noticing the birds. Especially the mysterious black birds that seem to call to her, to follow her, to dive at her. They stare at her with their soulless, black eyes. Soon incidents with birds begin to appear on the news. People are getting hurt. The birds are out of control. Then Gabrielle notices that bees, too, are becoming more dangerous … Birds, bees, hornets, wasps … The city is under siege. Nature has run amok. Death hovers in the sky, then swoops down on the unsuspecting in a swarm. How can mankind fight an enemy that numbers in the billions? Could Gabrielle somehow hold the key?

Vesper Flights

Vesper Flights PDF

Author: Helen Macdonald

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0802146694

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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.

On the Wing

On the Wing PDF

Author: David Elliott

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0763693022

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Explore a variety of birds in this illustrated educational introduction to birds.

Bird Book

Bird Book PDF

Author: Sidney Wade

Publisher:

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780997652338

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In this stunning collection, the author offers an exquisite array of poems at once sublime and playful, dedicated to the unearthly wonders of winged creatures. The book is a universal song of praise to the mysteries and intricacies of the animal world that surrounds us, and a wide-awake hymn, by a master lyricist, to the delights and surprises of our common language. The brilliantly vivid, elegant verse is sure to delight and inspire general readers, poetry enthusiasts, and avid birders or naturalists alike.

Crow Country

Crow Country PDF

Author: Mark Cocker

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1784871125

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The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley. From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the woods, these gloriously commonplace birds became for Cocker a fixation and a way of life. Journeying across Britain, through spectacular failures, magical successes and epiphanies, Cocker uncovers the mysteries of these birds' inner lives. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2008 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

Bee Journal

Bee Journal PDF

Author: Sean Borodale

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-07-05

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1448138248

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Bee Journal is a startlingly original poetry sequence: a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive, from the collection of a small nucleus on the first day to the capture of a swarm two years later. It observes the living architecture of the comb, the range and locality of the colony; its flights, flowers, water sources, parasites, lives and deaths. These poems were written at the hive wearing a veil and gloves, and the journal is an intrinsic part of the kinetic activity of keeping bees: making 'tiny, regular checks' in the turn around the central figure of the sun, and minute exploratory interventions through the round of the year. The book is full of moments of revelation - particularly of the relationship between the domestic and the wild. In attempting to record and invoke something of the complexity of the relationship between 'keeper' and 'kept' it tunes ear and speech towards the ecstasy of bees, between the known and the unknown. Because of its genesis as a working journal, there is here an unusual intimacy and deep scrutiny of life and death in nature. The language itself is dense and clotted, the imagery thrillingly fresh, and the observing eye close, scrupulous and full of wonder. Bee Journal is one of the most unusual and exciting poetry debuts in years.

Eternal Sunset

Eternal Sunset PDF

Author: Sèphera Girón

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2016-06-18

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13:

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Vanessa, the featured character in Borrowed Flesh, moves away to college after an etended break of hard living, casual sex, and dabbling in the occult. But little does she know what fate has in store for her where she accepts a gift from her new friend: an ancient book that holds the secret to eternal life …