Birds, Beasts and Relatives
Birds, Beasts and Relatives

Author: Gerald Durrell

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1504041666

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The follow-up to My Family and Other Animals and the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s memoir of his family’s time on a Greek island. In the years before World War II, Gerald Durrell’s family left the gloomy shores of England for the sun-drenched island of Corfu. Against this picturesque backdrop, Durrell fondly recalls his family’s disorderly household and outrageous antics, including their interactions with locals of both human and animal varieties. After a boyhood spent studying zoology and acquiring the island’s exotic insects, reptiles, birds, mammals, and sea creatures as pets, Durrell’s budding naturalism would later bloom into a passion for conservation that would last a lifetime. Filled with clever observations, amusing anecdotes, and childlike wonder, Birds, Beasts and Relatives is half nature guide, half coming-of-age tale, and all charmingly funny memoir. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Animal Musicalities
Animal Musicalities

Author: Rachel Mundy

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0819578088

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Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music’s taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides to show how animal song has become the starting point for enduring evaluations of species, races, and cultures. By examining the influential efforts made by a small group of men and women to define human diversity in relation to animal voices, this book raises profound questions about the creation of modern human identity, and the foundations of modern humanism.

Birds, Beasts and Flowers; Poems
Birds, Beasts and Flowers; Poems

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-21

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 3387070578

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Birds, Beasts and Flowers
Birds, Beasts and Flowers

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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"Birds, Beasts and Flowers" is a collection of poetry by the English author D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1923. The poems in the collection include some of Lawrence's finest reflections on the "otherness" of the non-human world. The recollections on the topic were inspired by Lawrence's stay in San Gervasio near Florence in September 1920. The author managed to transfer the atmosphere of that place and time masterfully.