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An invaluable introduction to the upland regions of Britain – their structure, climate, vegetation and animal life, their present and past uses and the problems of their conservation for the future. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com Moorland, mountain-top and upland grazing occupy...

A beautiful collection of stories and observations picked up by a lifetime of walking among the villages and hamlets of England.

In the wake of several books about the birds of South America, the eminent ornithologist turns his eye in this 1893 work to the fauna of a small village in his adopted country, England,. He catalogues fifty-nine different species of birds, and also records the lengths he went to (or heights he climbed) to observe the jay and the magpie, the wryneck and the cuckoo.

Renowned naturalist William Henry Hudson became an expert on birds and wrote a number of eloquent and popular books about them. In British Birds, he turns his superbly observant eye to the appearance, language, and life of all the birds of the British Isles (and to the few vacationers).

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Sussex's history. Based upon contemporary documents and illustrations, Johnnie Johnson re-examines some of the crimes that shocked not only the county but Britain as a whole. Among the gruesome cases...

Life comes with no guidelines, just questions so its easy for people to find them self lost. However, theres a saying for every question there is an answer, so people live out their lives in search of it. What if there was a book that contain all, some, or even just one of the answers to your lifes...

This is a quite long book, very well written, about a trip down the Amazon. There is rather a lot of "Natural History", but not too much, because it has all been made easy to follow, and is very interesting. All sorts of interesting things happen on this voyage. It is a rather curious thing that one...

Example in this ebook   CHAPTER I. A FIRST ANNIVERSARY "Although you open force disdain. Of secret guile beware!" John Leyden. It was a cold frosty evening in December, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and the whole of the month had been unusually tempestuous....

A well-to-do English family, with inherited wealth, find that this situation is challenged in the law-courts. They lose the case, and, as with Marryat's "Settlers in Canada" in a similar situation, decide to emigrate to Canada. This they do, and have enough money to settle there, but not in a grand...

The basic story-line is that there is a fort in the Hudson Bay Territory that needs some stores and materials to be sent to it from another fort about 150 miles away. The journey could be done by canoe, but there are none available at this time. So a party of people are sent overland to fetch what...