Kirjailija
Phil Robinson
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 43 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1894–2025, suosituimpiin kuuluu Fishes of Fancy. Their Place in Myth, Fable, Fairy-tale and Folk-lore. With Notices of the Fishes of Legendary Art, Astronomy and Heraldry. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
43 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1894–2025.
Birds of the Wave and Woodland
Phil Robinson
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
1894
nidottu
IF we had to distribute the Seasons among the birds that are called "British," selecting a notable fowl to represent each, we could hardly overlook the claims of the cuckoo, the nightingale, and the swallow to distinction. But, after all, these are not "thorough Britons." They only come to us for our summer, and when that goes they follow it. Though great numbers of them are British-born, they are at best only Anglo-Continental, Anglo-Asiatic, Anglo-African, and Inter-Oceanic. But our resourceful little islands give us native birds, all our own, that amply serve the Seasons, and represent, with sufficing charm, the{14} changing Four. We have the thrush, the blackbird, the skylark, and the robin, four of the sweetest birds that the round world can show