Get inspired by nature on your birdwatching journey Start your birdwatching journey in the safe hands of a lifelong birder. Through a series of chapters, you will build from an absolute beginner, exploring your own backyard, soaking up useful tips and insights gained from years o...
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T. S. Garp is a sweet-natured writer whose life is a weird minefield of violence, adultery, fatherhood, feminism, and eerie coincidences.
A follow-up to 'Cocoon', this second film has the elderly earthlings return for a visit to their home planet.
While exploring outside near his Vancouver Island home, a young boy discovers a butterfly with big orange wings. His older sister tells him what she has learned in school about Monarch butterflies and how they fly south each winter. Their butterfly has been blown off course from ...
During the American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin crashes his airship in Quebec City and is hidden from the British Redcoats by a group of orphans. By observing the sign language amongst the group of orphans, Franklin is inspired to create a spy code and the group of them ...
"A practical illustrated guide to exploring, observing, and understanding nature. Chris Packham will pass on his passion for nature and make you an enthusiastic and knowledgeable amateur naturalist. Nature Handbook reveals how easy it is to enjoy and learn about plants, animals, ...
Maggie Davis, a little girl who lived in Chester, Nova Scotia, developed diabetes in the 1920's before Dr. Frederick Banting developed insulin. Just as her health is declining terribly, she gets insulin and can live a more normal life.
In 1808, seeking a route to the western sea, Simon Fraser descended the great river that now bears his name. Stephen Hume followed in Fraser's footsteps for four years. He studied fading maps and diaries, interviewed the descendants of people who aided Fraser and retraced Fraser'...
"Loving friendship between a pet baby animal bird, a crow, rescued in the natural environment by a young girl and family in their home, where it is raised, comes of age, returns to the wild with a poignant reunion."-- Provided by publisher.
From hospitals to dance halls, from the classroom to the cannery, this insightful history examines indigenous and immigrant women's positions in the workplace, home and wilderness. Unforgettable stories of women surviving in the unforgiving environment of early British Columbia....