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Let Sleeping Vets Lie by James Herriot
epub | | 2009-12-26 | Author:James Herriot [Herriot, James]

"Really?" I was a bit taken aback. I didn't mind students discussing the pros and cons of my diagnoses as long as they didn't do it in front of the ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays June 8,2017 )
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot
epub | | 2009-12-26 | Author:James Herriot [Herriot, James]

( Category: Animal Husbandry June 8,2017 )
Wild Animals I Have Known (Yesterday's Classics) by Seton Ernest Thompson
epub |eng | 2010-11-12 | Author:Seton, Ernest Thompson [Seton, Ernest Thompson]

They Tussled and Fought while their Mother Looked on with Fond Delight The base of my tree was hidden in bushes and much lower than the knoll where the den ...
( Category: Wildlife June 8,2017 )
Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers (Yesterday's Classics) by Burroughs John
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

The Weasel MY most interesting note of the season of 1893 relates to a weasel. One day in early November, my boy and I were sitting on a rock at ...
( Category: Mammals June 7,2017 )
Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

the shining torch of the sun fell into the ocean. * * * VIII THE HIGHLAND LIGHT This light-house, known to mariners as the Cape Cod or Highland Light, is ...
( Category: United States June 7,2017 )
The Illustrated Walden by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

Ploughing, harrowing, and furrowing, 7 50 Too much. Beans for seed, 3 12½ Potatoes " 1 33 Peas " 0 40 Turnip seed, 0 06 White line for crow fence, ...
( Category: United States January 9,2017 )
Raising Wild by Michael P. Branch
epub |eng | | Author:Michael P. Branch

Chapter 8 8. Freebirds One afternoon a few days before Thanksgiving, Eryn came home from town with Hannah and Caroline, both of whom had been administered the traditional Thanksgiving myth ...
( Category: Fatherhood January 8,2017 )
On Trails by Robert Moor
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Moor

* * * I. “Champion,” also called “champaign,” is an antiquated term for open, level country. It has the same root as “campus.” II. When the Cherokees were forced to ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 19,2016 )
The Cabaret of Plants by Richard Mabey
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Mabey

In December 1990 Daniel L. McKinley, an emeritus professor of biology from New York, wrote to Charles Nelson about some tipitiwitchet evidence he’d unearthed while working on a biography of ...
( Category: Plants May 11,2016 )
0142004413 (N) by Gerald Durrell
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

Chapter 12 The Woodcock Winter As the summer drew to a close I found myself, to my delight, once more without a tutor. Mother had discovered that, as she so ...
( Category: Wildlife April 21,2016 )
A Different Kind of Luxury by Andy Couturier
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Andy Couturier

Growing like thunderheads all summer long, the trees and plants of the woodlands thrive and cover every bit of the mountain until they finally begin to lose their momentum, and ...
( Category: Eastern April 21,2016 )
A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Charles Darwin

Trochilus Forficatus Hacienda, condor, cactus, etc. Cactus; Cereus Peruviana Chilian miner Cordilleras from Santiago de Chile Chilian spurs, stirrup, etc. 1 Caldcieugh, in Philosoph. Transact. for 1836. 2 Annales des ...
( Category: Travel April 20,2016 )
1623363853 (N) by Nathanael Johnson
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Nathanael Johnson

TURKEY VULTURE Josephine, breathless and wild-eyed, found me in the kitchen. “Papa! There’s an eagle!” “Do you mean a seagull?” “No, an e-gull!” She pointed outside. I wiped my hands ...
( Category: Ecology April 17,2016 )
Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness by Rupert Sheldrake
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake

Figure 7. Nested Hierarchy. Diagrammatic representation of a nested hierarchy, which could represent subatomic particles in atoms, molecules, or crystals, for example; cells in tissues, organs, or organisms; or planets ...
( Category: Cosmology April 15,2016 )
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]

* She did continue to do “housework,” of course. But we must ask what this had come to mean. The industrial economy had changed the criterion of housekeeping from thrift ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 5,2016 )

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