Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780792229582
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Presents the physical descriptions, habitats and behavior of the major orders of mammals in North America.
Wild Animals of North America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780792229582
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Presents the physical descriptions, habitats and behavior of the major orders of mammals in North America.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780792229582
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Presents the physical descriptions, habitats and behavior of the major orders of mammals in North America.
Wild by Nature
Author: Andrea L. Smalley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
"Wild by Nature answers the question: how did indigenous animals shape the course of colonization in English America? The book argues that animals acted as obstacles to colonization because their wildness was at odds with Anglo-American legal assertions of possession. Animals and their pursuers transgressed the legal lines officials drew to demarcate colonizers' sovereignty and control over the landscape. Consequently, wild creatures became legal actors in the colonizing process--the subjects of statutes, the issues in court cases, and the parties to treaties--as authorities struggled to both contain and preserve the wildness that made those animals so valuable to English settler societies in North America in the first place. Only after wild creatures were brought under the state's legal ownership and control could the land be rationally organized and possessed. The book examines the colonization of American animals as a separate strand interwoven into a larger story of English colonizing in North America. As such, it proceeds along a different and longer timeline than other colonial histories, tracing a path through various wild animal frontiers from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake into the southern backcountry in the eighteenth century and across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth to end in the southern plains in the decades after the Civil War. Along the way, it maps out an argumentative arc that describes three manifestations of colonization as it variously applied to beavers, wolves, fish, deer, and bison. Wild by Nature engages broad questions about the environment, law, and society in early America"--
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
"Wild by Nature answers the question: how did indigenous animals shape the course of colonization in English America? The book argues that animals acted as obstacles to colonization because their wildness was at odds with Anglo-American legal assertions of possession. Animals and their pursuers transgressed the legal lines officials drew to demarcate colonizers' sovereignty and control over the landscape. Consequently, wild creatures became legal actors in the colonizing process--the subjects of statutes, the issues in court cases, and the parties to treaties--as authorities struggled to both contain and preserve the wildness that made those animals so valuable to English settler societies in North America in the first place. Only after wild creatures were brought under the state's legal ownership and control could the land be rationally organized and possessed. The book examines the colonization of American animals as a separate strand interwoven into a larger story of English colonizing in North America. As such, it proceeds along a different and longer timeline than other colonial histories, tracing a path through various wild animal frontiers from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake into the southern backcountry in the eighteenth century and across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth to end in the southern plains in the decades after the Civil War. Along the way, it maps out an argumentative arc that describes three manifestations of colonization as it variously applied to beavers, wolves, fish, deer, and bison. Wild by Nature engages broad questions about the environment, law, and society in early America"--
Small Animals of North America Coloring Book
Author: Elizabeth A. McClelland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486242170
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Colorable illustrations of 46 common mammals: armadillo, badger, bobcat, kit fox, kangaroo rat, raccoon, pika, peccary, yellowbelly marmot, marten, ferret, weasel, mink, and many more. Full-color renderings appear on the cover, and captions offer scientific names, family classification, size, range, and more information.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486242170
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Colorable illustrations of 46 common mammals: armadillo, badger, bobcat, kit fox, kangaroo rat, raccoon, pika, peccary, yellowbelly marmot, marten, ferret, weasel, mink, and many more. Full-color renderings appear on the cover, and captions offer scientific names, family classification, size, range, and more information.
North American Wildlife
Author: David Jones
Publisher: Whitecap Books
ISBN: 9781552857649
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now in paper: A well-illustrated exploration of North American wildlife, featuring a compelling text and 400 intriguing photographs taken in the wild by some of the best wildlife photographers.
Publisher: Whitecap Books
ISBN: 9781552857649
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now in paper: A well-illustrated exploration of North American wildlife, featuring a compelling text and 400 intriguing photographs taken in the wild by some of the best wildlife photographers.
Reader's Digest North American Wildlife
Author: Susan J. Wernert
Publisher: Readers Digest
ISBN: 9780762100200
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Identifies and describes many varieties of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, trees, and wildflowers found in North America.
Publisher: Readers Digest
ISBN: 9780762100200
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Identifies and describes many varieties of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, trees, and wildflowers found in North America.
Predators of North America
Author: Dave Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550465204
Category : Predatory animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A season-by-season look at North America's most thrilling predator species.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550465204
Category : Predatory animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A season-by-season look at North America's most thrilling predator species.
Coyote America
Author: Dan Flores
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465098533
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation." -Wall Street Journal Legends don't come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote. In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won, hands-down. Coyote America is the illuminating five-million-year biography of this extraordinary animal, from its origins to its apotheosis. It is one of the great epics of our time.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465098533
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation." -Wall Street Journal Legends don't come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote. In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won, hands-down. Coyote America is the illuminating five-million-year biography of this extraordinary animal, from its origins to its apotheosis. It is one of the great epics of our time.
Wild Animals of North America
Author: Edward William Nelson
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Wild Animals of North America" (Intimate Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the Mammal Kingdom) by Edward William Nelson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Wild Animals of North America" (Intimate Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the Mammal Kingdom) by Edward William Nelson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Wildlife in America
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: 9780140047936
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This classic history of the rare, threatened, and extinct animals of North America is a dramatic chronicle of man's role in the disappearance of great and small species of our land. "Should be the number one source volume for everyone who embraces the philosophy of conservation".--Roger Tory Peterson. Illustrations throughout.
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: 9780140047936
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This classic history of the rare, threatened, and extinct animals of North America is a dramatic chronicle of man's role in the disappearance of great and small species of our land. "Should be the number one source volume for everyone who embraces the philosophy of conservation".--Roger Tory Peterson. Illustrations throughout.
Wild Animals of the North
Author: Dieter Braun
Publisher: Nobrow Press
ISBN: 9781909263963
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Identifies wild animals of the northern hemisphere, describing the physical characteristics, feeding habits, and behaviors.
Publisher: Nobrow Press
ISBN: 9781909263963
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Identifies wild animals of the northern hemisphere, describing the physical characteristics, feeding habits, and behaviors.