| Description |
1 online resource (541 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication ; Contents; Introduction; SECTION ONE PROFILES AND PORTRAITS; Behemoth THE BOOK OF JOB; Medieval Lion ANONYMOUS; The Whale, the Unicorn and the Pussy Cat BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS; A History of Four-footed Beasts EDWARD TOPSELL; Little Miss Muffet THOMAS MUFFET; The Animals Come to Court COMTE DE BUFFON; The Ivory-billed Woodpecker ALEXANDER WILSON; A Tenderfoot Meets Some Natives SAMUEL L. CLEMENS; An American Perfume JOHN JAMES AUDUBON; Portrait of a Friend HENRY DAVID THOREAU; No Pride of Ancestry and No Hope of Posterity CLARENCE KING |
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A Companion in Solitude JOHN MUIRTomcat Past His Prime COLETTE; Sea Otters and Civilization ERNEST THOMPSON SETON; A Modern Primitive ANONYMOUS; SECTION TWO HUNTERS AND SPORTSMEN; The Heroes Go Hunting HOMER; VIRGIL; Sportsman's Vocabulary DAME JULIANA BERNERS; The Harmonious Hound GERVASE MARKHAM; Fisherman's Defense IZAAK WALTON; Country Squire ANTHONY COOPER; Sir Roger Spares a Rabbit JOSEPH ADDISON; The Fox Hunt GEORGE BERKELEY; Connecticut Wolf Hunt DAVID HUMPHREYS; The Eskimo and the Seal THOMAS PENNANT; Poaching as a Way of Life GILBERT WHITE |
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The Man in the Coonskin Hat DAVID CROCKETTCockneys Afield CHARLES DICKENS; Sport on the Plantation JOHN JAMES AUDUBON; Leviathan HERMAN MELVILLE; Crocodile Tears PAUL DU CHAILLU; Slaughter of the Elephant Seal CHARLES M. SGAMMON; Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright THE HON. JAMES INGLIS; Shooting Elephants for Fun FREDERICK COURTENEY SELOUS; Slaughter of the Innocents JOHN BURROUGHS; Give a Cat a Bad Name ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT; The Wilds Without Firearms ENOS A. MILLS; Set a Seal to Catch a Seal VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON; Mark Twain in Eruption SAMUEL STEVENS HOOD |
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Death of a Rabbit WILLIAM F. MC DERMOTTSECTION THREE THE WIDE WIDE WORLD; Holy Cats HERODOTUS; Natural History Notes of a Practicing Pirate WILLIAM DAMPIER; A French View of the Rattlesnake MICHEL DE CRÈVECOEUR; William Bartram Meets the Alligator WILLIAM BARTRAM; Humboldt in South America ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT; Why the Sloth Is Slothful CHARLES WATERTON; The Great Beast of the Plains FRANCIS PARKMAN; Meditation on a Tortoise HERMAN MELVILLE; The River and the Jungle HENRY WALTER BATES; The Old Man of the Woods ALFRED RÜSSEL WALLACE; The Communist Achievement THOMAS BELT |
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Far Away and Long Ago W.H. HUDSONSheep Without Shepherds JOHN MUIR; SECTION FOUR CRUELTY AND FELLOW FEELING; Man's Best Friend HOMER; The Little Brothers of St. Francis ANONYMOUS; No Pets Permitted WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM; Mr. Pepys Is Not Amused ANONYMOUS; SAMUEL PEPYS; Sweet Reason MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE; Fellow Creature or Machine JEAN DE LA FONTAINE; ""Nature's Children All Divide Her Care"" JOHN RAY; An Eighteenth-Century Humanitarian ALEXANDER POPE; Merry England HARLEIAN MANUSCRIPTS; WEEKLY JOURNAL; Cruel Curiosity SAMUEL JOHNSON; Two Poets WILLIAM COWPER; CHRISTOPHER SMART |
| Notes |
Sentimental Journey LAURENCE STERNE |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351472456 |
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1351472453 |
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