Robert Burton Livres

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

A comprehensive survey explaining and illustrating the range of animal life, from the single-celled amoeba to the primates, and detailing the behavior, life cycles, anatomies, protective devices, and other features of representative species

Text and photographs depict mice feeding, breeding, and interacting with other animals in their natural habitat.

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.

'The New Birdfeeder Handbook' contains information on how to attract birds to your garden. The basic elements of a good bird garden are examined systematically, from garden layout and plant selection to the best place to put a nest box. The book also provides answers to common questions about bird behaviour - explaining, for example, why some birds feed in groups and why certain birds have simple songs while others have repertoires of hundreds of phrases. In addition to illustrated features on the very 'bird-friendly' equipment and foodstuffs, this classic guide now provides detailed visual profiles of over 60 of our most common garden visitors - making it the ideal companion for all bird lovers.