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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Village Swallows
Author: Village swallows
Author: A Single Swallow
Author: Horatio ClarePublisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780099526315
Category : Bird watching
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, writer and birdwatcher, it is the expedition of a lifetime. Along the way he discovers old empires and modern tribes, a witch-doctor's recipe for stewed swallow, explains how to travel without money or a passport, and describes a terrifying incident involving three Spanish soldiers and a tiny orange dog. By trains, motorbikes, canoes, one camel and three ships, Clare follows the swallows from reed beds in South Africa, where millions roost in February, to a barn in Wales, where a pair nest in May.
Bulletin
Author: Swallow's Dance
Author: Wendy OrrPublisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1760636479
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
I wonder if the first day of Learning is always like this - do the girls on the hill always feel the ground tremble under their feet? Leira is about to start her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home - and her family - in pieces. And the goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption throws the entire world into darkness. After the resulting tsunami, society descends into chaos; the status and privilege of being noble-born reduced to nothing. With her injured mother and elderly nurse, Leira has only the strength and resourcefulness within herself to find safety. A thrilling Bronze Age survival story from the acclaimed author of Dragonfly Song.
The Geographical Journal
Author: Life Histories of North American Flycatchers, Larks, Swallows, and Their Allies
Author: Arthur Cleveland BentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
This is the fourteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds, with previous numbers issued as follows: 107, 113, 121, 126, 130, 135, 142, 146, 162, 167, 170, 174, 176. This bulletin deals with the Order Passeriformes, specifically the Family Cotingidae (Cotingas); Family Tyrannidae (Flycatchers) ; Family Alaudidae (Larks) and Family Hirundinidae (Swallows) of North America
Life Histories of North American Flycatchers, Larks, Swallows, and Their Allies
Author: Arthur Cleveland BentPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486258317
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The definitive study of North American birds (United States, Canada, Mexico), prepared under auspices of Smithsonian Institution. Contains practically everything known about birds: description, habitat, range, life history, habits, relation to man, etc. These books will never be surpassed in fullness and useability. Indispensable to every serious birds watcher. All are fully illustrated. 78 species. Nesting, plumage, courtship, migration, range, etc. 117 black-and-white photographs.
Life Histories of North American [birds].: Flycatchers, larks, swallows and their allies
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Author: Arthur Cleveland BentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
What the Swallow Sang
Author: Friedrich SpielhagenPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The sexton's wife did not venture to make any reply, and turned away. The stranger looked after her retreating figure a few minutes. "Strange," he murmured, "it seems as if it would be committing a sacrilege to utter my name aloud in this place! It was really a relief to my mind that the woman did not know me. How we are all under the ban of gloomy feelings which we should be ashamed to confess to others! To be sure it is not strange that these emotions should almost overpower me here; here, in this spot which should be my home, where my cradle stood, and yet where I was not allowed to return until the grave had closed over him to whom I owe my life."
