on the instincts and habits of the solitary wasps
- Author: george williams peckham
- Genre: Ecology
This book was originally published in 1898. "The Peckhams' observations are precise, and their prose is simple and light. No nature-faking or unfounded anthropomorphism is to be found in their writing. A science classic that can be read with pleasure even today.
Lectures in Navigation
- Author: Draper Ernest Gallaudet
- Genre: Hiking & Camping
Lectures by Lieutenant Ernest G. Draper, Head of the Department of Navigation, includes: Piloting, Dead reckoning, Celestal navigation.
life shortening habits and rejuvenation
- Author: arnold lorand
- Genre: Hunting
In his book “Life shortening habits and rejuvenation” he author aimed to show, on the basis of examples drawn from nature, that each of the Almighty's creatures is destined by Him to do good. He discusses all life shortening habits and tells the ways to avoid them. Also he explains what is good for our health and long life.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
- Author: Quiller-Couch Arthur Thomas Sir
- Genre: Fishing
A collection of short stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, a British writer, who published under the pen name of “Q.” Among others, the book includes Sindbad On Burrator, Victor, The Capture of the Burgomeister Van Der Werf, King O' Prussia, The Man Who Could Have Told, The Cellars of Rueda, The Haunted Yacht, Parson Jack's Fortune, The Burglary Club and some others.
The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
- Author: Quiller-Couch Arthur Thomas Sir
- Genre: Fishing
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He published his Dead Man's Rock (a romance in the vein of Stevenson's Treasure Island) in 1887, and he followed this up with Troy Town (1888) and The Splendid Spur (1889). After some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a contributor to the Speaker, in 1891 he settled at Fowey in Cornwall. He published in 1896 a series of critical articles, Adventures in Criticism, and in 1898 he completed Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, St Ives. With the exception of the parodies entitled Green Bays: Verses and Parodies (1893), his poetical work is contained in Poems and Ballads (1896). In 1895 he published an anthology from the sixteenth and seventeenth-century English lyrists, The Golden Pomp, followed in 1900 by an equally successful Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (1900). He was made a Bard of Gorseth Kernow in 1928, taking the Bardic name Marghak Cough ('Red Knight').