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Excerpt from Field-Days in California Bradford Torrey died at Santa Barbara, California, October 7, 1912, two days before his sixty-ninth birthday. He had sent this book to the Publishers some weeks before, but had not had an opportunity to read the proof. The manuscript had been prepared, however, with that scrupulous care which he always exercised in his literary work, and there is no reason to suppose that he would have made any important ...

Excerpt from Everyday Birds: Elementary Studies California vulture, or condor, which measures from tip to tip of its wings nine feet and a half. At the other end of the scale are the humming birds, one kind of which, at least, has wings that are less than an inch and a half in length. Next to these insect-like midgets come the birds which have been well named in Latin Regulus, and in English kinglets, - that is to say, little kings. The fitne...

Excerpt from Spring Notes From TennesseeOf cofiee. In another direction was a spot where the Rebels once had a regular pic nic, killing some extraordinary number Of Yankees in some incredibly brief time. I interrupted the conversation, and at the same time made myself known as a stran ger and a Northerner, by inquiring after the whereabouts of Orchard Knob, General Grant's headquarters, and the same man, who seemed to be the spokesman of the p...

Excerpt from The Foot-Path Way There were six of us, and we had the entire hotel, I may almost say the entire valley, to ourselves. If the verdict of the villagers could have been taken, we should, perhaps, have been voted a queer set, fami liar as dwellers in Franconia are with the sight of idle tourists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This...

Excerpt from A Rambler's Lease Do well, in legal phrase, to perfect their titles. He would gladly be of service to them in this regard. 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, preserving the original format ...

Excerpt from A Florida Sketch-Book In approaching Jacksonville by rail, the traveler rides hour after hour through seemingly endless pine barrens, otherwise known as low pine-woods and flat-woods, till he wearies of the sight. It would be hard, he thinks, to imagine a region more unwholesome looking and uninteresting, more poverty-stricken and God-forsaken, in its entire aspect. Surely, men who would risk life in behalf of such a country dese...

Excerpt from A World of Green Hills: Observations of Nature, and Human Nature, in the Blue Ridge In a day and a night I had come from early May to middle June, from a world of bare boughs to a forest clad in all the verdure of summer. Such a shine as the big, lusty leaves of the black-jack oaks had put on! I could have raised a shout. In the day when "all the trees of the field shall clap their hands, " may I be somewhere in the black-jack's ...

Excerpt from Friends on the Shelf Happy is the man who enjoys himself. His are the true riches. Saving physical pain and mortal illness, few evils can touch him. He may lose friends and make enemies, all the powers of the world may seem to have combined against him, he may work hard and fare worse, poverty may sit at his table and share his bed, but he is not to be greatly pitied. His good things are within. He enjoys himself. He has found th...

Excerpt from The Clerk of the Woods The chapters of this book were written week by week for simultaneous publication in the "Evening Transcript" of Boston and the "Mail and Express" of New York, and were intended to be a kind of weekly chronicle of the course of events out-of-doors, as witnessed by a natural-historical observer. The title of the volume is the running title under which the articles were printed in the "Evening Transcript." It ...

Excerpt from Footing It in Franconia Or six hours of this delightful panoramic journey, and we leave the cars at Littleton. Then a few miles in a carriage up a long, steep hill through a glorious autumn-scented forest, the horses pausing for breath as one water-bar after another is surmounted, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is...

Excerpt from Nature's Invitation: Notes of a Bird-Gazer North and South Of the chapters here brought together the two longest, the first and the last, are reprinted from the "Atlantic Monthly." The others were originally contributed, by way of weekly letters, to three newspapers, - the "Evening Transcript" of Boston, and the "Mail and Express" and the "Evening Post" of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...