Nature Books

Amerigo Vespucci

Frederick A. Ober

Amerigo Vespucci is a history work written by Frederick A. Ober, an American naturalist and writer...

Mother West Wind "How" Stories

Thornton W. Burgess

Peter Rabbit has many questions. How did Howler the Wolf get his name? How did Lightfoot the Deer learn to jump? How did Drummer the Woodpecker come by his red cap? When Peter asks Grandfather Frog, G..

Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Preface from the book: The accompanying pages contain the unfinished Sketch of a Theory of Life by S. T. Coleridge. Everything that fell from the pen of that extraordinary man bore latent, as well as ..

Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer

Avis A. Burnham Stanwood

Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer is a California's gold discoveries fiction written by Avis A. Burnham Stanwood. Excerpts from the book:Reader, are you a lover of Nature? And do you behold wi..

Curiosités judiciaires et historiques du moyen âge. Procès contre les animaux

Émile Agnel

Curiosités judiciaires et historiques du moyen âge. Procès contre les animaux is a French book about animals law and legislation history written by Émile Agnel, a French lawyer...

An Essay on the Principle of Population

T. R. Malthus

The following Essay owes its origin to a conversation with a friend, on the subject of Mr Godwin's essay on avarice and profusion, in his Enquirer. The discussion started the general question of the f..

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

The Treasury contains nineteen stories written by Beatrix Potter. The most famous story is Peter Rabbit, which features a naughty young rabbit who learns the value of listening to his mother. Bor..

Anecdotes of Animals

Anonymous

Anecdotes of Animals is a children's book about animals written by Anonymous authors.An abbot, a man of wit, and skilled in the making of new musical instruments, was ordered by Louis XI., king o..