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Excerpt from Memorial Day, and Other PoemsBallad OF the thornless rose irony mad - town melodies OF the months march fields april may - lure june haying bird notes the lark the cat bird the meistersinger the humming - bird the blue bird the ground robin from the grass love IS strong.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from With Nature and a Camera: Being the Adventures and Observations of a Field Naturalist and an Animal PhotographerOne great disappointment to us is that our labours cannot possibly be measured by our results. As an instance of this, my brother journeyed to the Highlands of Scotland on one occasion expressly for a photograph of a Golden Eagle sitting on her eyrie; but in vain: he was obliged to return without it.The best pictures seem to have a fatal knack of slipping from the grasp of the natural history photographer, and the elements, alas! Too often conspire to rob him of many a cherished hope.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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How is this book unique? Formatted for E-Readers, Unabridged & Original version. You will find it much more comfortable to read on your device/app. Easy on your eyes.Includes: Illustrations and BiographyOne Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة‎, translit. ʾAlf layla wa-layla) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c. 1706 – c. 1721), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa. Some tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Greek, Indian, Jewish and Turkish folklore and literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Abbasid and Mamluk eras, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hezār Afsān (Persian: هزار افسان‎, lit. A Thousand Tales), which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves. The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord. Some editions contain only a few hundred nights, while others include 1,001 or more. The bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is occasionally used for songs and riddles and to express heightened emotion. Most of the poems are single couplets or quatrains, although some are longer.Some of the stories commonly associated with The Nights, in particular "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", were not part of The Nights in its original Arabic versions but were added to the collection by Antoine Galland and other European translators.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...we both saw from our respective quarters the supplies repeatedly passed in. After a number of plates had been exposed in a light that was far too poor to make us sanguine about the results, the photographer signalled to me that he wished to be released. Upon walking up, I put my finger into the nest and the tit sat perfectly still until I withdrew it, when she came out in the most unconcerned fashion and began to hop about amongst the branches of a tree overhead. As evidence of the excellent character of the hiding provided by our artificial tree-trunk, I was pleased to note, while I sat waiting, a turtle-dove alight within a few yards of it and begin to call, and a cunning old carrion-crow leisurely flap his way close past without having his suspicions aroused in the slightest degree. Chaffinches have on several occasions alighted upon it, and one day a robin actually rattled off his song from the top of our rubbish-heap whilst my brother was inside waiting for a bird of another species to visit its nest. Our first attempt at photographing the bottletits outside their nest did not yield a satisfactory result, so we waited until the young ones were older and both the parent birds were busily engaged in feeding them, when the picture on page 79 was obtained. Although chaffinches are bold birds and sit closely on their nests, they are by no means easy to photograph without the help of some sort of hiding appliance. We had tried many many times to photograph a brooding female, and had often come within an ace of success, but at the crucial moment either the bird's courage gave out and she flew away, or some tantalising accident, such as the slipping of a twig, carefully bent out of the line of sight, scared her off with an angry "spink, spink,...

The story is about a young boy, Timothy Hardbuckle, who gets accidentally left behind in the UK when his large, eccentric family emigrate to Australia. He ends up staying with his adventurous and fun-loving favourite uncle until he can be reunited with his parents and sisters. But when his uncle has to go away on a secret government mission, Timothy’s troubles really begin. He comes into contact with two very unpleasant people, Mr Grimple and Mr Gripe, who dislike children and almost everything else in the world. They make his life (and other peoples’ lives) miserable, but they underestimate Timothy’s bravery, intelligence and his clever battle plans. They are no match for his ingenuity and his special powers, which he acquires through the mysterious Mr Warner. By reading the book you’ll find out what magical powers Timothy has, and meet lots of strange and wonderful characters along the way, including a very rude talking bird! The story is packed with funny situations that will make you laugh out loud. Find out what Timothy does to Mr Grimple and Mr Gripe, and who eventually wins the battle between good and evil …

The story is about a young boy, Timothy Hardbuckle, who gets accidentally left behind in the UK when his large, eccentric family emigrate to Australia. He ends up staying with his adventurous and fun-loving favourite uncle until he can be reunited with his parents and sisters. But when his uncle has to go away on a secret government mission, Timothy’s troubles really begin. He comes into contact with two very unpleasant people, Mr Grimple and Mr Gripe, who dislike children and almost everything else in the world. They make his life (and other peoples’ lives) miserable, but they underestimate Timothy’s bravery, intelligence and his clever battle plans. They are no match for his ingenuity and his special powers, which he acquires through the mysterious Mr Warner. By reading the book you’ll find out what magical powers Timothy has, and meet lots of strange and wonderful characters along the way, including a very rude talking bird! The story is packed with funny situations that will make you laugh out loud. Find out what Timothy does to Mr Grimple and Mr Gripe, and who eventually wins the battle between good and evil …

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.

Excerpt from Wild Life at Home: How to Study and Photograph ItThis book, which is entirely popular, does not pretend in any measure whatsoever to assume the nature of a guide to collecting and preserv_ ing any of the beasts, birds, or insects described in its pages, but is simply designed to help the finding, studying, and photographing of wild things at home going about the everyday business of their lives. It contains a succinct account or our new devices, which are of such value that we have, within the last two or three months, succeeded in photographing the shyest of our feathered friends within a few inches of the camera, and made observations of the most interesting character.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.