Nature/Gardening/Animals

In the Wilds of South America

Leo E. Miller

Leo E. Miller’s In the Wilds of South America is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a series of…

The alligator and its allies

A. M. Reese

The work is a scholarly survey of crocodilian biology written by Albert M. Reese and published in 1915.

American Weasels

E. Raymond Hall

American Weasels is a scholarly monograph that treats the North American members of the genus Mustela as a…

The farmstead: The making of the rural home and the lay-out of the farm (5th edition)

Isaac Phillips Roberts

The work is a practical treatise on the design and economics of the American farmstead, written by Isaac…

Animals of the Past

Frederic A. Lucas

Frederic A. Lucas’s Animals of the Past is a popular‑science survey of paleontology that opens with a…

Cassell's Natural History, Vol. 1 (of 6)

Cassell’s Natural History, Vol. I is a Victorian‑era survey of mammals, beginning with an extensive treatment…

Edge of the Jungle

William Beebe

Edge of the Jungle is a natural‑history memoir set in the rain‑forests of British Guiana.

Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 2 of 2) with scientific elucidations

Alexander von Humboldt

This volume is a scientific treatise by Alexander von Humboldt that surveys the distribution of life across…

Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture

John H. Robinson

The book is an elementary textbook on aviculture, written by John H.

Travels in Alaska

John Muir

John Muir’s Travels in Alaska is a natural‑history travel memoir that records the explorer’s first forays…

The Yosemite

John Muir

The work is a natural‑history travelogue that blends personal adventure with a systematic survey of…

Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc.

Natural History in Anecdote is a compendium that gathers a wealth of short, illustrative stories about the…

Wild flowers of the north-eastern states: Being three hundred and eight individuals common to the north-eastern United States

Miller, Ellen; Whiting, Margaret C.

This work is a practical field guide to three hundred and eight wild‑flower species that grow in the…

Cats: Their Points and Characteristics With Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments

Gordon Stables

The work is a Victorian‑era natural history essay that treats the domestic cat as both a subject of affection…

The Confessions of a Beachcomber

E. J. Banfield

The work is a first‑person account by E. J. Banfield, an English‑born naturalist who settled on Dunk Island…

The book of antelopes, vol. 4 (of 4)

Sclater, Philip Lutley; Thomas, Oldfield

Trees Worth Knowing

Julia Ellen Rogers

All About Your Canary

George Jackson French

All About Your Canary is a practical handbook that blends historical narrative with detailed care…

The zoological gardens of Europe, their history and chief features

C. V. A. Peel

The work is a scholarly survey of European zoological gardens, written by the naturalist C. V. A.

Cassell's Natural History, Vol. 2 (of 6)

The wilds of Patagonia: a narrative of the Swedish expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands in 1907-1909

Carl Skottsberg

The work is a first‑hand scientific travelogue that records a Swedish expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del…

Botanical features of the Algerian Sahara

William Austin Cannon

Seventeen trips through Somáliland A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893

H. G. C. Swayne

Harold G. C. Swayne’s Seventeen Trips through Somáliland is a first‑person record of exploration, ethnology…

Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima

Glen Everett Woolfenden

The work is a scientific monograph that presents a detailed comparative study of the breeding habits of two…