Terns (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 123)

Terns (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 123)

Author: David Cabot

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 0007412495

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This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds – the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934.


Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library)

Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library)

Author: David Wilkinson

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2021-06-24

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0008293643

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Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain’s ecosystems to illustrate each point.


Pembrokeshire (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 141)

Pembrokeshire (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 141)

Author: Jonathan Mullard

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13: 0008112819

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This lushly illustrated and fully comprehensive book about the wildlife, landscapes and history of Pembrokeshire is a much-anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series, and reveals the incredible wealth of biodiversity present in the region.


Butterflies (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 1)

Butterflies (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 1)

Author: E. B. Ford

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2011-12-21

Total Pages: 857

ISBN-13: 0007406010

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A scientific study that keeps in mind the needs of butterfly collectors and of all those who love the country in the hope that it may increase their pleasure by widening the scope of their interests. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com


The Burren (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 138)

The Burren (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 138)

Author: David Cabot

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 857

ISBN-13: 0008183805

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The Burren is one of those rare and magical places where geology, glacial history, botany, zoology and millennia of cultural history have converged to create a unique landscape of extraordinary natural history interest. It is without equal to any other area in Ireland or Britain.


Irish Birds

Irish Birds

Author: David Cabot

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2021-04-29

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0008412723

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An easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide to the birds of Ireland


Lost Libraries

Lost Libraries

Author: J. Raven

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-01-31

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0230524257

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This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.


Hunting and Fishing in the New South

Hunting and Fishing in the New South

Author: Scott E. Giltner

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2008-12-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1421402378

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This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post–Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacy—escaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing. But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southerners—blacks included—since colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the South’s labor system. Scott E. Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environment—how blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting. Giltner’s thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen’s recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.


The Ash Tree

The Ash Tree

Author: Oliver Rackham

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781908213143

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The only book on The Ash Tree, an important book on this threatened species.