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Bird Biographies

Ball, Alice Eliza
Bird Biographies
Bird Biographies: A Guide-Book For Beginners An Introduction To 150 Common Land Birds Of The Eastern United StatesThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, format...

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A Year with the Birds

Ball, Alice Eliza
A Year with the Birds
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Bird Biographies (Classic Reprint)

Ball, Alice Eliza
Bird Biographies (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Bird BiographiesThe Greek and Roman mythologies abound in allusions to bird-life. It was natural that the powerful eagle should be held sacred to Jupiter, the lordly peacock to Juno, the wise owl to Minerva, the repulsive vulture that haunted battlefields to Mars, the beautiful swan to Apollo, and the cooing dove to Venus.The American Indians regarded birds with great rever ence. Their bird-myths are full of beauty. To them the ea...

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The Child's Own English Book, An Elementary English Gramm...

Ball, Alice Eliza
The Child's Own English Book, An Elementary English Grammar - Book One
This scarce antiquarian book comprises a comprehensive and accessible guide written with the intention of easing children into the basic principles of English grammar. This first volume treats only the parts of speech, the growth of the simple sentence, punctuation, and common errors in English. Chapters included in this book are: The Noun, The Adjective, The Pronoun, The Verb, The Adverb, The Preposition, The Conjunction, The Interjection, Re...

CHF 41.50

Bird Biographies (Classic Reprint)

Ball, Alice Eliza
Bird Biographies (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Bird Biographies Long before the place of birds in the great scheme of nature was understood, they made their appeal: first, to primitive man, who had curious Superstitions and created beautiful myths concerning them, next, to poets and dreamers of ancient civilizations, who used them in allu sions beautiful with Oriental imagery, to artists, who de lighted in portraying symbolism, to later poets and lovers of beauty, who perceiv...

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