Author: Albert Wilmore
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385407184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author: Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club
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Category : Hertfordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385389593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author: Benjamin Martin
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Doris Jones-Baker
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 9780954218942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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This collection of essays offers a historical glimpse into the lives and happenings in Hertfordshire from the 13th century to the present. Topics range from graffiti evidence of medieval music. King James's connections with Hertfordshire, settlements in the Connecticut Valley, art traditions in the 19th century, and the history of Christ's Hospital. This compilation was designed to honor Lionel Munby, one of Hertfordshire's leading 20th-century historians.

Author: Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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Author: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101981628
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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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: Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club
Publisher:
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Category : Hertfordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: William Page
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 581

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