America's greatest ornithological artist John James Audubon (1785-1851) came from his native Haiti to America in 1803
this 5" Mallard Duck stuffed animal is so realistic the design is approved by Audubon and the sound comes from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wildlife recordings
from mating calls to claims of territory
Illuminating and heartfelt
Understanding plant families also helps us to make sense of--and better appreciate--the enormous biological diversity of the plant kingdom
Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White, edited w/ intro by E.B. White Georgia O'Keeffe America's greatest ornithological artist JohnIn 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine's first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband to be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled