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Book cover for John Burroughs: A Year in the Fields

A Year in the Fields : Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs

John Burroughs
Hardcover - $68.95

1875. Some of the writings of John Burroughs, the American naturalist, best remembered for his essays on nature. Contents: A Biographical Sketch of Burroughs; A Snow-Storm; Winter Neighbors; A Spring Relish; April; Birch Browsings; A Bunch of Herbs: ...

Book cover for John Burroughs: A Year in the Fields

A Year in the Fields : Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs

John Burroughs
Paperback - $45.95

1875. Some of the writings of John Burroughs, the American naturalist, best remembered for his essays on nature. Contents: A Biographical Sketch of Burroughs; A Snow-Storm; Winter Neighbors; A Spring Relish; April; Birch Browsings; A Bunch of Herbs: ...

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Afoot and Afloat

John Burroughs
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Book cover for John Burroughs: Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers

John Burroughs
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Book cover for John Burroughs: Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers

John Burroughs
Paperback - $32.95

How surely the birds know their enemies! See how the wrens and robins and bluebirds pursue and scold the cat, while they take little or no notice of the dog! Even the swallow will fight the cat, and, relying too confidently upon its powers of flight, ...

Book cover for John Burroughs: Birds and Poets

Birds and Poets

John Burroughs
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I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches of outdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character, and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights me inside my four walls, as well as what pleases an ...

Book cover for John Burroughs: Birds and Poets

Birds and Poets

John Burroughs
Paperback - $35.95

The cow figures in Grecian mythology, and in the Oriental literature is treated as a sacred animal. "The clouds are cows and the rain milk." I remember what Herodotus says of the Egyptians' worship of heifers and steers; and in the traditions of the ...

Book cover for John Burroughs: Birds and Poets

Birds and Poets

John Burroughs
Hardcover - $57.95

I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches of outdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character, and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights me inside my four walls, as well as what pleases an ...

Book cover for John Burroughs: Birds and Poets

Birds and Poets

John Burroughs
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