Author: Max C. Thompson
Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Kansas knows how to attract birds. Located in the very center of the North American continent, it straddles the Central Flyway, one of the primary migration "highways" between Canada and South America. It also contains a broad spectrum of habitats, including deciduous forest, grassland, sagebrush, and a remarkable system of internationally important wetlands. As a result of this unique combination of natural features, Kansas attracts most of the eastern bird fauna and many of the western and southern species, as well as those northern birds that either winter on the central plains or pass through during their migratory flights. The number of bird species recorded in the states is 424a total that places Kansas among the top five birding states in the country.
Author: Tony Parker
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Parker, Britain's expert interviewer, finds a classic mid-American town in Bird, Kansas, surrounded by cornfields and prairie, with a population of just under 2,000.
Author: Kenn Kaufman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618062351
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
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At 16, Kaufman dropped out of high school and started hitching across America in an effort to see the most birds in a year. "Kingbird Highway" is a unique coming-of-age story, combining a lyrical celebration of nature with wild adventures and some unbelievable characters.
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400043778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself. Here Richard Rhodes vividly depicts Audubon’s life and career: his epic wanderings; his quest to portray birds in a lifelike way; his long, anguished separations from his adored wife; his ambivalent witness to the vanishing of the wilderness. John James Audubon: The Making of an American is a magnificent achievement.
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Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1624
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Author: Harriet Goldhor Lerner
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606301053
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Franny B. Kranny refuses to cut her wild hair, despite her family's insistence, and wears a bird in her hair to a family reunion.
Author: James McBride
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 1594486344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, the region a battlefield between anti and pro slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an arguement between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town with Brown, who believes Henry is a girl. Over the next months, Henry conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. He finds himeself with Brown at the historic raid on Harper's Ferry, one of the catalysts for the civil war.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1852
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Author: Best Books on
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623760151
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 581
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compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kansas ... Sponsored by the State Department of Education.
