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The Malay Archipelago, Vol. 2 - Alfred Russel WALLACE
The Malay Archipelago, Vol. 2 - Alfred Russel WALLACE
- Author: Alfred Russel WALLACE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
A fascinating and classic Victorian ethnology of SE Asia, first published in 1869. The author was co-discoverer of evolution, together with Darwin. (Summary by Nicholas Longhurst)...
Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty - Stephen COLERIDGE
Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty - Stephen COLERIDGE
- Author: Stephen COLERIDGE
- Genre: Animals / Medical / Modern (19th C)
Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological or pathological research. While opposition to the use of living animals for experimentation is most often...
The Elements of Conchology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Conchology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: Animals / Education / Nature
The fifth of the Series of First Books of Natural History, embraces that branch of our subject which treats of the Mollusca, or soft animals, and consequently, includes the Elements of Conchology. In the beauty and singularity of their forms, the...
The Cat: Its Natural History, Varieties and Management - Philip M. RULE
The Cat: Its Natural History, Varieties and Management - Philip M. RULE
- Author: Philip M. RULE
- Genre: Animals
"The origin of the domestic cat (Felis domestica) is a subject about which there has been much conjecture and scientific discussion, but without any positive issue. Very long before the cat was kept in this country as a domesticated animal it was...
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - Charles Darwin
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - Charles Darwin
- Author: Charles Darwin
- Genre: Animals / Science
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by Charles Darwin, published in 1872, concerning genetically determined aspects of behaviour. It was published thirteen years after On the Origin of Species and alongside his 1871 book The...
Ways of Wood Folk - William J. Long
Ways of Wood Folk - William J. Long
- Author: William J. Long
- Genre: Science / Animals
Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the secret worlds of the woodland animals. Containing Long's own animal observations along with stories related to him by other humans who inhabit the woods, these stories give us...
Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking - Edmund BERT
Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking - Edmund BERT
- Author: Edmund BERT
- Genre: Animals / Sports & Recreation
An approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. Divided into three Bookes. The first teacheth, How to make a short-winged Hawke good, with good conditions. The second, How to reclaime a Hawke from any ill condition. The third teacheth. Cures for all...
True Bear Stories - Joaquin MILLER
True Bear Stories - Joaquin MILLER
- Author: Joaquin MILLER
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Animals
Joaquin Miller dedicated this book to "my dear little daughter...for whose pleasure and instruction I have many times dug up the most of these stories from out the days of my boyhood." In his preface he claims to prefer true stories to made-up ones....
The Elements of Ornithology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Ornithology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Science
The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to ornithology. The information, albeit not...
Dogs and All About Them - Robert LEIGHTON
Dogs and All About Them - Robert LEIGHTON
- Author: Robert LEIGHTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
This comprehensive guide on dog-rearing looks at dogs as more than just pets - as people's best friends. The author describes each breed of dog in a detailed and systematic way, with complete notes on show-dogs. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)...
The American Book of the Dog - Various
The American Book of the Dog - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Animals
Here is a period piece, covering 47 breeds, about the early days of dog breeding, the birth of the American Kennel Club (1884) which firmly established breed standards, and the development of bench shows and field trials. Each article, written by a...
Birds in the Calendar - Frederick G. AFLALO
Birds in the Calendar - Frederick G. AFLALO
- Author: Frederick G. AFLALO
- Genre: Animals / Nature
Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This collection of articles, reprinted in book form from the periodical The Outlook, is full of fascinating...
Animals of the Past - Frederic LUCAS
Animals of the Past - Frederic LUCAS
- Author: Frederic LUCAS
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Life Sciences
Prior to the emergence of paleontology and comparative anatomy as scientific disciplines at the end of the 18th century, it was generally known that there were species of animals that had disappeared completely. The term "extinction" originally...
On The Seashore - R. Cadwallader SMITH
On The Seashore - R. Cadwallader SMITH
- Author: R. Cadwallader SMITH
- Genre: Animals
This gifted nature writer who is so good at describing animals and their habitat and habits here gives us a look at many of the fascinating creatures that can be found on the seashore. Starfish, the many types of crabs, shrimp, sea weed and finally...
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - John Henry PATTERSON
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - John Henry PATTERSON
- Author: John Henry PATTERSON
- Genre: Animals / Memoirs
In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked at night, dragged into the wilderness, and devoured by two male lions. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is the...
Our Cats and All About Them - Harrison WEIR
Our Cats and All About Them - Harrison WEIR
- Author: Harrison WEIR
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Nature
The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first President and Show Manager until his resignation in 1890. Our Cats and all about them is concerned with cats and...
Sleeping Sickness - Fleming Mant SANDWITH
Sleeping Sickness - Fleming Mant SANDWITH
- Author: Fleming Mant SANDWITH
- Genre: Animals / Health & Fitness / History
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children and a hazard to tourists in East African game parks.The protozoan parasite is transmitted by the tsetse fly,...
The Bird Study Book - Thomas Gilbert PEARSON
The Bird Study Book - Thomas Gilbert PEARSON
- Author: Thomas Gilbert PEARSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Nature
Do you enjoy birdwatching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservations efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface to The Bird Study Book, Pearson tells us “This book was written for the consideration of that...
Wild Nature Won by Kindness - Elizabeth BRIGHTWEN
Wild Nature Won by Kindness - Elizabeth BRIGHTWEN
- Author: Elizabeth BRIGHTWEN
- Genre: Animals
This is a delightful collection of stories about a few of the birds, puppies, ant-lions, spiders and other assorted bugs this lady either rescued or found and then observed carefully as they made their way to maturity. She is the most careful as...
The Gamekeeper at Home - Richard JEFFERIES
The Gamekeeper at Home - Richard JEFFERIES
- Author: Richard JEFFERIES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Biography & Autobiography
Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard’ in 1868 and also started to write articles and pamphlets on various agricultural issues and local...
The Wonders of the Jungle - Sarath Kumar GHOSH
The Wonders of the Jungle - Sarath Kumar GHOSH
- Author: Sarath Kumar GHOSH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
How do elephants drink? What is the Law of the Jungle at the water hole? How does an elephant baby learn to feed and learn to swim? How do they walk under water? In what order do buffaloes drink? How do buffaloes fight the tiger? These and other...
American Big-Game Hunting - Undefined
American Big-Game Hunting - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Animals / Sports & Recreation
The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Note: "Hunting big game in the wilderness is, above all things, a sport for a vigorous and masterful people. The...
Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers - John Burroughs
Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers - John Burroughs
- Author: John Burroughs
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Animals
Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight into the daily life of small woodland creatures. Included in these essays are Burrough's personal observations...
Anecdotes of Dogs - Edward JESSE
Anecdotes of Dogs - Edward JESSE
- Author: Edward JESSE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." The character, sensibilities, and intellectual faculties of animals have always been a favourite study, and they are, perhaps, more strongly developed in the dog than in...
Birds and Man - William Henry HUDSON
Birds and Man - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Animals
During the later part of his life Hudson lived in southern England, where he was involved very early on with the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). Birds and Man is a slow moving work where Hudson discusses his love of birds, and the...
The Adventures of a Nature Guide - Enos A. MILLS
The Adventures of a Nature Guide - Enos A. MILLS
- Author: Enos A. MILLS
- Genre: Animals / Biography & Autobiography
Enos Mills (1870-1922 ), naturalist and conservationist, was instrumental in the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. Like his mentor John Muir, Mills was an intrepid solitary high country rambler, as well as an accomplished Colorado mountain...
Beautiful Joe - Marshall Saunders
Beautiful Joe - Marshall Saunders
- Author: Marshall Saunders
- Genre: Animals
Beautiful Joe is a real dog, and "Beautiful Joe" is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master, who mutilated him in the manner described in the story. He was rescued from him, and is now living in a happy home...
Dragons of the Air - Harry Seeley
Dragons of the Air - Harry Seeley
- Author: Harry Seeley
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Life Sciences
Sir Richard Owen coined the term "dinosaur" ("Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile") in the 19th century. When Harry G. Seeley, a student of law at that time, attended a lecture on flying reptiles, his interest in paleontology was piqued,...
Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk - Austin L. Rand
Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk - Austin L. Rand
- Author: Austin L. Rand
- Genre: Animals / Life Sciences
Canadian zoologist, Austin L. Rand, takes a divergence from his scholarly works on ornithology to give us 60 entertaining sketches of bird life and lore from Birds Bathing to Courtship Feeding. From the author's introduction: "In looking back over...
The Life of a Fossil Hunter - Charles Sternberg
The Life of a Fossil Hunter - Charles Sternberg
- Author: Charles Sternberg
- Genre: Animals / Memoirs / Earth Sciences
Charles Sternberg was an American fossil collector and paleontologist. He was active in both fields from 1876 to 1928, and collected fossils for private collectors as well as for international museums. This book is part travelogue, part...
Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) - Oskar Pfungst
Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) - Oskar Pfungst
- Author: Oskar Pfungst
- Genre: Animals / Psychology
Oskar Pfungst book is a detailed piece of investigative journalism looking into Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks. Pfungst details the results of many experiments, by the...
Our Western Birds - Elizabeth Grinnell
Our Western Birds - Elizabeth Grinnell
- Author: Elizabeth Grinnell
- Genre: Animals / Nature
This mother and son team, each distinguished in their field, collaborate to give charming portraits of common birds of the western United States from the western robin and cedar waxwing to the crow and roadrunner. The book is written in a plain and...
Movement & Progression of Animals - Aristotle
Movement & Progression of Animals - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Animals / Ancient / Other religions
Movement of Animals (or On the Motion of Animals; Greek Περὶ ζῴων κινήσεως; Latin De Motu Animalium) begins with a discussion of the physics of motion and asks whether God, the Unmoved Mover, exists outside of our Universe. Progression of Animals...
Life At The Zoo: Notes And Traditions Of The Regent's Park Gardens - Charles John Cornish
Life At The Zoo: Notes And Traditions Of The Regent's Park Gardens - Charles John Cornish
- Author: Charles John Cornish
- Genre: Animals
London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. Opening in 1828, it was originally intended to be used as a collection for the scientific study of animals. The animals of the Tower of London menagerie were transferred to the zoo's collection in...
Bashan And I - Thomas MANN
Bashan And I - Thomas MANN
- Author: Thomas MANN
- Genre: Animals / Essays & Short Works / Nature
Simple and unpretentious as a statement by Francis d’Assisi, yet full of a gentle modern sophistication and humour, this little work will bring delight and refreshment to all who seek flight from the heavy-laden hour. It is, moreover, one of the...
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Author: Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Life Sciences
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The sixth volume is on Zoology written by Dr. WM. D. Matthew and on Botany written by Marion E. Latham. The section on Zoology examines the development, evolution and distribution of...
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 14, Apr. 6, 1881 - Various
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 14, Apr. 6, 1881 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Animals / Business & Economics
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sale of pure honey. Published every Wednesday, by Thomas G. Newman, Editor and Proprietor” In this volume are...
Secrets of the Friendly Woods - Rex Brasher
Secrets of the Friendly Woods - Rex Brasher
- Author: Rex Brasher
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Memoirs
Rex Brasher is best known for his having painted in watercolor a complete set of all the extant American birds during his lifetime. This is a collection of his writing that serves as a kind of memoir. These are set on his 150-acre farm purchased in...
Life Among the Butterflies - Vance Randolph
Life Among the Butterflies - Vance Randolph
- Author: Vance Randolph
- Genre: Animals / Nature
Vance Rudolph's informative work about butterflies includes a summary of current (for publication) butterfly literature, butterfly body structure, life cycle, and egg laying process, as well as their classification and survival strategies. - Summary...
The Living Animals of the World, Volume 2 - Various
The Living Animals of the World, Volume 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Animals / Nature
The Living Animals of the Natural world, subtitled "a popular Natural History", proposed to present the most updated version of the wonders of the Animal World in a new and clearer form. It used photography instead of the traditional illustrations...