This book is an engaging introduction to dragonflies for a general reader, incorporating facts, conservation information, illustrations, and the author’s personal stories.
Trixy is a 1904 novel by the American writer and activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, best known in her lifetime as the author of the best-selling The Gates Ajar. Trixy is an early novel of the animal rights movement and sought to turn public opinion against vivisection.
Cindy Crosby's The Tallgrass Prairie is an indispensable guide to the native plants of these ecosystems as well as a wealth of useful information about visiting prairies, identifying key prairie species, incorporating native plants into home gardens, and more. Natural resource stewards will find this book an excellent introduction for their volunteers and for new staff members unfamiliar with prairie.
One of nineteenth-century Russia's finest prose writers, Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov's Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler is companion to his popular Notes on Fishing and a classic of nature writing.
