With publication of his first book in 1908, The Confessions of a Beachcomber, Banfield won international attention as a conservationist and defender of nature, a theme he...
Miracles Of Our Lord
George MacDonald was a Scottish poet, writer and Minister of the nineteenth century. He is known for his fantastic stories. In this book, MacDonald describes the miracles through...
Tropic Days
Edmund James "Ted" Banfield (4 September 1852 – 2 June 1923) was an author and naturalist, best known for his book Confessions of a Beachcomber.
Nurturing New Life
"The immense variety of nests that Brazilian birds build With about 300 photos and texts on bird breeding habits, this book features nests of clay, straw and even a nest built...
Pussy And Her Language: Including A Paper On The Wonderful Discovery Of The Cat Language
Including a Paper on the Wonderful Discovery of the Cat LanguageThe brain of the Cat so closely resembles that of man as to force the unwilling admission from anatomists and...
A Dissertation On Horses: Wherein It Is Demonstrated, By Matters Of Fact, As Well As From The Principles Of Philosophy, That Innate Qualities Do Not Exist, And That The Excellence Of This Animal Is Altogether Mechanical And Not In The Blood.
Osmer shows us, by what he argues against, the primitive state of horse-breeding in England where a superstitious belief in bloodline with no attention to conformation rules. This...
On The Tendency Of Varieties To Depart Indefinitely From The Original Type
Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for...
Walking
Walking is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851.Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American...
What Animal Is It? Vol. 2
With each turn of the page, a shadow of an animal pops up like magic on a new landscape.Landscape and scenery photographed in Brazil in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Paraiba, Rio...
