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This title focus on the southern hemisphere using African examples.
Ornithology for Africa has been specially written for users on the
southern side of the equator and puts Africa in the lead in this
regard. It is based on a series of lectures on the biology of
birds, which the author has presented over the years to adult
audiences throughout southern Africa. The text is aimed at the
informed layperson as well as at the senior undergraduate student.
The style allows the lay reader not only to learn about birds, but
to enjoy ornithology as a pastime or even as a more serious
occupation. The nine chapters cover the origin of birds, flight,
feeding adaptations, zoogeography, ecology, migration, behaviour
and breeding biology.
This is a unique collection of poems that provide a fresh, amusing,
and sometimes thought-provoking picture of some of the best-loved
members of the animal kingdom. Although sometimes silly, it is much
more than nonsense verse. The funny but very real creatures will
raise the readers' curiosity and prompt them to ask questions about
the amazing animals with whom we share our planet. The poems appeal
to adults as well as children, which makes this an ideal book to be
read aloud together.
Robert Ogilvie Crombie is probably best known as one of the seminal
figures in the history of the Findhorn Foundation community in
northern Scotland. He was the elderly Scottish gentleman who spoke
with nature spirits. But there was much more to this man's life and
work than just his association with Findhorn. As a scientist,
hermetic magician, and a researcher of the psychic realms, he was
in many ways a key figure in the history of esotericism in the
twentieth century. His story is less-well known than it could be
simply because he worked in solitude and privacy. He did not write
books and did not take students or attempt to found a group or an
esoteric school. When he shared some of his inner work with the
world at large, he did so through the lens of the Findhorn
community. In so doing, he exerted a powerful influence on the
imagination and spiritual work of thousands of people around the
globe, particularly in how they view humanity's relationship and
responsibility to the natural world. For anyone interested in the
history of Findhorn, the Western occult and magical traditions, or
the life of a working adept, this book is a must-read.
Traces the anthropological and ethnological theories of the ancient
Greeks and Romans from the creation of the world to the invention
of the Americas. In ancient Greek and Roman thinking, whether the
world is flat or spherical it will have imaginary boundaries and
liminal areas where the norms of nature and culture are thought to
break down. Analogies are constantly drawn between 'primitive'
peoples at the 'edges of the world' and 'primitive' people in
prehistory. Distance, both in time and space, leads to difference,
and the idea that strange things happen out there or happened back
then dominates Greek and Roman thinking on other cultures. This
book examines ancient ideas of the creation of the world, the
beginnings of life and origin of species, humans and animals,
utopias and blessed islands, and 'barbarian' cultures beyond the
Mediterranean world, before going on to trace the influence of
ancient anthropological and ethnological thought on the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance. We begin with primordial chaos and end with
the invention of the Americas, taking in on the way many strange
creatures, among them the noble or ignoble savages of Britain, Gaul
and Ireland, the Man-faced Ox-creatures of Empedocles, the
Dog-heads of India, the Amazons, Centaurs, Columbus, and the
Tupinamba of Brazil.
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