Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Alexandra Morton [Morton, Alexandra]

Chapter 12 Robin and I needed three things in a home port: whales, mail service, and playmates for Jarret. He was now two, and it didn’t seem fair to raise ...
( Category: Mammals February 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Williams

Emblematic of the Victorian age were the ‘Aurelians’, collectors of butterflies, who held their subject material in such awe that they bestowed its golden splendour on themselves. Snail collectors didn’t ...
( Category: Wildlife February 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-06 | Author:Kurt Stenn

12 WOOL BANKROLLS AN EMPIRE Wool made the fortunes of many who handled it, including Cosimo de’ Medici, the famous Renaissance banker, and Christopher Columbus. Perhaps the most famous weaver ...
( Category: Mammals February 7,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Oslund, Karen. [Oslund, Karen.]

In 1846, another pastor and Faroese linguist, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammers- haimb, published several articles on Faroese language and literature.26 While the first few decades of the nineteenth century saw the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology February 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Rauch

An early publicity drawing from Marineland. Human systems of echolocation date back to the early twentieth century, but the term SONAR (SOund NAvigation and Ranging) was coined during the Second ...
( Category: Marine Life February 4,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Jacky Colliss Harvey

In fact the days of the smooth and perfect limbs of the Salon nudes were already numbered. Over the Channel the French Impressionists were also creating works in which redheads ...
( Category: Natural History February 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ber van Perlo

56 Murrelets, Auklets, Puffins, Sandgrouse & Pigeon 56.1 ANCIENT MURRELET Synthliboramphus antiquus [Guillemot à cou blanc] L 27cm. Note white underwings, short pale bill and distinctive white patch at neck ...
( Category: State & Local February 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Ralph Steadman

Giant Ibis Thaumatibis gigantea Another once-abundant bird, the Giant Ibis, of which there are only about 230 mature individuals remaining, is found in northern Cambodia, southern Laos, and there has ...
( Category: Birds February 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Crain

6 Resilience When the real estate agent initially showed us our farm, we heard gunshots in the background. “Yes, there is hunting nearby,” she told us. “I don't like to ...
( Category: Animals February 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Gallagher

Only a month after my last trip to Mexico, my plane landed again in El Paso. Bobby, John Hatch, his wife Sandra, and I met up, loaded our gear into ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology January 26,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Keen [SAM KEEN]

In addition, there is the everyday cacophony of automobile horns, airplanes, cell phones ringing, fire engines, ambulances, police sirens, boom boxes, jackhammers, and occasional bombs bursting in air. For anyone ...
( Category: Birdwatching January 21,2016 )
epub, mobi | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lyall Watson [Watson, Lyall]

It was during that night that Hinchliffe and his co-pilot died in a crash. This experience is typical of many in which the need is clear. The information is important ...
( Category: Natural History January 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Lonely Planet

Otago, South Island, New Zealand On Koekohe Beach, the Moeraki Boulders have generated many Maori legends. Some claim they are eel baskets washed ashore from a mythical wrecked canoe. Massimo ...
( Category: Biological Sciences January 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Honey [Honey]

My Funny Valentine Today in my opinion is the worst day of the year. The day in question is February 14th, which is also known as “Valentine’s Day.” I had ...
( Category: Contemporary Romance January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-07 | Author:Mike White

Winchell Lake, East Humboldt Range Winchell Lake, at 8570 feet, rests in another dramatic basin, with green, sloping hillsides rising up to steep, jagged peaks, where the crest reaches heights ...
( Category: Mountain January 8,2016 )