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Nature, Gardens & Animals
A Year with the Birds
William Warde Fowler and Bryan Hook
205 pages~4 hr 6 min read23 chapters$4.99
An Oxford naturalist follows the birds from college quad to Alpine meadow and back to a midland village. Warde Fowler writes of autumn rooks, spring song, and the June Alps with learning worn lightly and affection worn openly. Classic English bird writing. Spend a full year in the company of birds and the man who loved them.
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Inside this book
23 chapters
- 1A YEAR WITH THE BIRDS
- 2PREFACE.
- 3NOTE TO SECOND EDITION.
- 4NOTE TO THIRD EDITION.
- 5CONTENTS.
- 6LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 7CHAPTER I. OXFORD: AUTUMN AND WINTER.
- 8CHAPTER II. OXFORD: SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER.
- 9CHAPTER III. THE ALPS IN JUNE.
- 10CHAPTER IV. A MIDLAND VILLAGE: GARDEN AND MEADOW.
- 11CHAPTER V. A MIDLAND VILLAGE: RAILWAY AND WOODLAND.
- 12CHAPTER VI. THE ALPS IN SEPTEMBER.
- 13CHAPTER VII. THE BIRDS OF VIRGIL.
- 14NOTES.
- 15Note A. (p. 14.)
- 16Note B. On the Songs of Birds. (pp. 48 and 149.)
- 17Note C. Fables of the Kingfisher. (p. 242.)
- 18Note D. Redpolls in the Alps. (p. 195.)
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