Download or read book Homing written by Jon Day and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 'Rich and joyous ...The book's quiet optimism about our ability to change, and to learn to love small things passionately, will stay with me for a long time' Helen Macdonald 'Big-hearted and quietly gripping' Guardian 'I love Jon Day's writing and his birds. A marvellous, soaring account' Olivia Laing '[A] beautiful book about unbeautiful birds' Observer 'This is nature writing at its best' Financial Times 'Awash with historical and literary detail, and moving moments ... Wonderful' Telegraph 'Every page of this beautifully written book brought me pleasure' Charlotte Higgins 'A vivid evocation of a remarkable species and a rich working-class tradition. It's also a charming defence of a much-maligned bird, which will make any reader look at our cooing, waddling, junk-food-loving feathered friends very differently in future' Daily Mail 'Endlessly interesting and dazzlingly erudite, this wonderful book will make a home for itself in your heart' Prospect As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in moving house, he began to lose a sense of what it meant to feel at home. Returning to his childhood obsession with the birds, he built a coop in his garden and joined a local pigeon racing club. Over the next few years, as he made a home with his young family in Leyton, he learned to train and race his pigeons, hoping that they might teach him to feel homed. Having lived closely with humans for tens of thousands of years, pigeons have become powerful symbols of peace and domesticity. But they are also much-maligned, and nowadays most people think of these birds, if they do so at all, as vermin. A book about the overlooked beauty of this species, and about what it means to dwell, Homing delves into the curious world of pigeon fancying, explores the scientific mysteries of animal homing, and traces the cultural, political and philosophical meanings of home. It is a book about the making of home and making for home: a book about why we return.
Download or read book Squab Raising written by William Edward Rice and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Profitable Squab Breeding written by Carl Dare and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Profitable Squab Breeding" is a complete guidebook on the business of rearing squabs by author Carl Dare. The consumption of squab meat had steadily risen at the time of the books writing in the early twentieth century and Dare points out that, "The rearing of squabs for market is immensely profitable as well as easy. Squab-raising can be conducted on a scale large enough to make it worthwhile in the back yard of a town lot, or it can be conducted on a scale large enough to require several acres with equal profit on every dollar invested in the business. Squab-breeding is a business which is profitable when conducted as a side line on a small space and all the work may be done by women, children, or those who are not strong enough for the more laborious occupations of life. At the same time it is a business which men of affairs need not hesitate to undertake as there are squab farms on which pigeons are kept by tens of thousands with great profit."
Download or read book Pigeons written by Andrew D. Blechman and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated since the dawn of humankind, they have been crucial to wartime communications for every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives. One delivered the results of the first Olympics in 776 BC and another brought the news of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo more than 2500 years later. Charles Darwin relied heavily upon them to help formulate and support his theory of evolution. Yet today the pigeon is reviled as a rat with wings. How did we come to misunderstand one of humanity's most steadfast companions?In Pigeons, Andrew D. Blechman travels across the United States and Europe in a quest to chronicle the bird's transformation from beloved friend to feathered outlaw.
Download or read book Farm Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perfect Pigeons written by Katherine Battersby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One plucky pigeon dares to fly against the flock in this brightly illustrated, laugh-out-loud picture book about embracing the things that make us different. A colorful flock of pigeons pride themselves on their perfect unity. All except one: a bespectacled pigeon who is happiest doing its own thing. While the flock all looks the same, this pigeon enjoys wearing cowboy boots. While the flock flies in perfect formation, this pigeon soars like a superhero. When the flock finally confronts their contrary friend, they learn a thing or two about true perfection—and that we don’t all have to be the same to belong together.
Download or read book Amara s Farm written by JaNay Brown-Wood and published by Live Oak Media. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many plants grow on Amara's family's intergenerational farm, and she needs help finding pumpkins for her potluck. Playful text provides clues for young nature lovers to follow as they hunt among the fruits and vegetables, comparing and contrasting the unique characteristics of pumpkins against okra, cauliflower, apples, and other crops grown on the farm. And there's a tasty pumpkin bread recipe included for young chefs to try!
Download or read book The Farm Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Pigeon Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pigeon Feathers written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author’s thirtieth birthday—Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him; it is the matter in which the saving truth is incarnate. . . . Pigeon Feathers is not just a book of very brilliant short stories; it is a demonstration of how the most gifted writer of his generation is coming to maturity; it shows us that Mr. Updike’s fine verbal talent is no longer pirouetting, however gracefully, out of a simple delight in motion, but is beginning to serve his deepest insight.”
Download or read book American Pigeon Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perky written by Alvin Wire and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wire family lives on a small dairy and hog farm in northwestern Illinois. In summer, the hay is cut, partially dried, and blown into a tall silo. The unloader is then folded and put at the top of the silo. It makes the perfect home for pigeons. One day in the fall of 1977, Farmer Wire finds a surprise. At the top of the silo, in a nest on the unloader, is a young pigeon. Farmer Wire puts the pigeon in his pocket thinking he can now have himself a delicious squab potpie! Fortunately for the pigeon, Farmer Wires sons have other plans for the little bird. They want to keep him as their pet! While the Wire boys take care of their new petwithout even knowing ittheir avian friend teaches the family important lessons that will carry them through life. In this unique, true story, Perky: Life Lessons from Our Pet Pigeon, a people-friendly pigeon teaches important life lessons to a farm family and young readers.
Download or read book Pigeon Breeding and Racing written by Stanley Walter Edgar Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Labor of the State of Michigan written by Michigan. Department of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Labor of the State of Michigan written by Michigan. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1897-1908 include the Report of inspection of factories, 5th-16th.
Download or read book Report written by Michigan Department of Labor (1883-1921). and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1898-1908 include the Report of state inspection of factories, 6th-16th.
Download or read book Annual Report written by Michigan. Department of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
