The Birds of the BibleJazzybee Verlag, 2017 M02 6 - 308 páginas Gene Stratton-Porter, the Indiana novelist and bird lover, offers the fruits of several years' loving labor in "Birds of the Bible”, a handsome volume. The riches of bird lore that Mrs. Porter has unearthed will surprise anyone who opens the book. "Birds of the Bible " is designed for all lovers of birds in general, and lovers of Bible birds and Bible poetry in particular. It contains every reference made to birds in the Bible: describes the location, and explains the characteristics of the bird. In this book, the author, one of the most successful writers of her days, both as a naturalist and a novelist, has made her greatest effort to do something worth while for the world, having given three years to the preparation of the text. |
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... Jordan, through which flowed the sacred river in which Jesus was baptized; another strip of hills and mountains; and Syria adjoining, which shortly stretched away into desert. At the southeast of the sea lay Arabia, the Sinai Peninsula ...
... Jordan Valley, one thousand three hundred feet below sea level; here rose the snowcapped ranges of Hermon and Lebanon from two to three thousand feet above. Between these extremes could be found rich valleys, broad, fertile plains ...
... Jordan the laughing kingfisher chuckled in its noisy flight, one of the veriest birds of history, amused, no doubt, at how it had fooled countries older than these. For of all the birds known to the most ancient world, none so had ...
... Jordan. So there were good nesting sites for lark, quail, and all groundbuilders loving grassy shelter. In the wilderness and scattered all over the face of the country grew at least five acornbearing oaks, all of lower habit and more ...
... Jordan, and around the Sea of Galilee, and are still growing at Beirut. Palms grow a tall stem from thirty to eighty feet, and a plume of feathery foliage at the top makes them the most graceful and beautiful trees of the plains and ...