30 Ergebnisse - Zeige 21 von 30.

Excerpt from From Spring to Fall: Or When Life Stirs Great masses of clouds pass over us as we tramp merrily along the green roads that run in all directions by the border-lines of Surrey and Sussex. This is a line of country brimful of beauty for those who have eyes to see the beauty of the common objects around them, although for many the district we are walking over would probably be a dreary "No Man's Country." About the Publisher Forgo...

Excerpt from The Story of Hawaii IN one of his poems, Matthew Arnold writes of man as a wanderer born on a ship, on the breast of the river of Time, and he adds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, prese...

Excerpt from Annals of a Fishing Village: Drawn From the Notes of "a Son of the Marshes" Readers have already recognised a tender and sympathetic penetration into Nature in the writings of A Son of the Marshes, as rare as it is delicate, and will be interested in discovering from the following chapters, which are to some extent biographical, how Nature herself educates her own students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Excerpt from Within an Hour of London Town: Among Wild Birds and Their Haunts Often heard, but little seen, is the strong-winged, large-eyed, wide-mouthed night-swallow, or fern owl. Here and there you will see him in the course of your evening rambles, but to find his stronghold and hunting-ground you must range far afield. Out of the town of Dorking along green lanes, a good walk will bring you to Leith Hill, and thence to the common. The ...

Excerpt from Candalaria: A Heroine of the Wild West "Eleanor!" said Stephen Warner one evening to his young wife, "I saw something on my rounds to-day which vexed me terribly, and I cannot get it out of my mind." "What was it, Steeve?" "I was riding past those wretched Mexican huts on the other side the river, and when I got to the last of them, which is some little distance from the rest, I saw what seemed to me at first a shapeless bundle...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Originally published in London 1889. The author was a Kentish born naturalist with a love of field sports. He writes with feeling of the study of the wild creatures of the Surrey and Kentish coast and his experiences with shooting, fishing and fowling. Contents Include: A Winter's day on the Marshes Haunts of the Otter The Badger The Fox The Heron and his Haunts Rambles in Surrey Birds of Prey Martens, Polecats, Weasels and Stoats Fish and Fis...