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Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals
Welcome to the Sunshine Island - where the beaches are golden, the
lifestyle is perfect and anything is possible. Piper Le Brocq is
happily single after the disastrous ending of her engagement
eighteen months before. The only man in her life is Jax, her best
friend and cousin, who spends his life teaching locals how to
forage and taking tourists on boat trips around the island. Her
days are filled with helping out at her mother's guest house and
selling her glass mosaics at The Cabbage Patch emporium in Trinity.
Piper loves living on the Sunshine Island, where the neighbours
look out for each other and visitors are welcome. So, when handsome
guest Alex Cooper arrives at the guest house to check up on his
grandfather, she welcomes him to the sunny island. And when he
needs help after his grandfather is injured, she's quick to get
involved. Yet, the more she gets to know Alex the more mysterious
he seems, and Alex isn't the only one keeping secrets from her.
What readers are saying about Georgina Troy: 'A gorgeous beachside
setting, divine ice-cream sundaes, and a scorching summer love
story - this book has it all!' Christina Jones 'I thoroughly
enjoyed spending time in this charming, evocative story. It's a
perfect book to enjoy by the pool, in the sunshine, with a glass of
Prosecco!' Kirsty Greenwood 'A wonderfully warm and sweet summer
read' Karen Clarke
Originally published in the early 1900's, this book is now rare and
much sought after in its first edition. READ COUNTRY BOOKS have
republished it using the original text with its numerous vintage
black and white photos. Four hundred and fifteen pages contain
twenty eight detailed articles by well known Cockers and Game Fowl
breeders of that era, most notably C.A. Finsterbusch, G.W. Means
and D.H. Pierce. Contents Include: - Wisconsins Red Shufflers. -
Blue Boones. - Grey Tormentors. - The Miner Blues. - Clairbornes. -
Sid Taylors. - Black Roundheads. - Rhett Morgan Fowl. - Walker
Mugwumps. - Gregory Tassels. - Red Cubans. - French and Belgian
Cocks. - The Asil. - Mahoney Gulls. - Volunteers. - Malay Fowl. -
Fardowns. - Grimme Fowl. - Hammond Gordons. - John Stone Fowl. -
Cocks and Cockers in South America. - Secret Ways of Nature. -
Steel Fighters. - English Game Fowl. - Alabama Roundheads. -
Methods of Conditioning Cocks. - Experience in Breeding. Nursing
Cocks. Assembled in these chapters is much comprehensive
information on Game Fowl Strains, History, Records, Breeding and
Fighting Tips, and many Rare Vintage Photos. This is a fascinating
read for all Game Fowl enthusiasts and historians, but also
contains much information that is still useful and practical today.
Many of the earliest sporting books, particularly those dating back
to the 1800s, are now extremely scarce and very expensive. READ
COUNTRY BOOKS are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
FEROX AND CHAR IN THE LOCHS OF SCOTLAND AN INQUIRY BY R. P. HARDIE
PART II The publication of these notes is perhaps justified by a
long and fairly extensive experience of lochs in Scotland.
The book is a combination of all the things pertaining to my
fishing for so many years. It is how I got started, what I learned,
who I met, what I caught, what interesting things happened. I am
not through learning or enjoying my life doing this. There is
always something new tomorrow.
The pictures are of the people that I knew, myself, odd things
we caught, or odd things that happened.
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A rare fox in the South American cordillera. A disappearing fox on
an island off California. A common coyote in the Albany suburbs.
How do these wild carnivores live? And what is it about the places
they live that allows them to survive? Holly Menino joins up with
three young scientists to find out, and along the way is drawn into
a broader consideration of the science that defines these animals'
natural histories.
With the same intelligent, lucid style that made "Forward
Motion" such a success, "Darwin's Fox and My Coyote" is a
sympathetic but unsentimental examination of animals in their
habitats. Field biology spearheaded the animal conservation
movement by creating a new awareness of wild animals and bringing
to public consciousness their needs and vulnerabilities. The
conservation movement has fostered a general sense that land is
shifting out from under wild animals at a pace that threatens their
very survival. But if that threat is known, it is little
understood. Few realize that animals are becoming extinct at rates
that far exceed the ability of scientists to help stabilize their
populations. Menino confronts the public attitudes that reinforce
these calamitous realities and thwart animal conservation
efforts.
In the tradition of "Silent Spring" and "A Sand County Almanac,
Darwin's Fox and My Coyote" is thought-provoking, alarming, and
unapologetic. It is, most important, a call to action.
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