Birds of Eastern Canada (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

P. A. Taverner

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331616697 ISBN 13 : 9781331616696

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Birds of Eastern Canada. INTRODUCTION. OBJECT OF THE BOOK. Of late years there has been a great awakening of interest in the subject of natural history. More and more people are beginning to reahze the pleasure and profit that can be derived from observation of common natural objects. In this growing field of nature study, few subjects have attracted so much popular attention as birds and few forms of life appeal so strongly to the sesthetic sense. They are beautiful; they arouse curiosity; their elusiveness piques the imagination; and by presenting constajitly new aspects they never become commonplace. The ornithological side is one from which the problems of nature can be successfully attacked from so many standpoints and in so many ways that there is interesting and valuable work for all to accomplish according to individual taste or opportunity. Those who inchne towards systematic Mork can spht their definitions as finely as human powers of observation permit. The animal psychologist can develop his problems as far as ingenuity can devise methods for experimentation. The ordinary nature lover can observe and note as painstakingly as opportunity permits; he can record information of scientific as well as popular interest, take pleasure in observing passing beauties, train his powers of observation, and acquire a knowledge that greatly increases his capacity for appreciation of nature. Even the unsentimental, practical man, who has little outward sympathy with abstract beauty, has his attention attracted by the evident economic value of birds. The Birds of Eastern Canada has been written to awaken and, where it already exists, to stimulate an interest, both aesthethic and practical, in the study of Canadian birds and to suggest the sentimental, scientific, and economic value, of that study; to assist in the identification of native species; and to furnish
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331616697
• ISBN 13: 9781331616696
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 298
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