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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... desert. At the southeast of the sea lay Arabia, the Sinai Peninsula, across which Moses led the Hebrews in a great circular journey of three times the length necessary to have reached their destination in a straight line. The southern ...
... desert stretching away on the east. Over all a tropical sun streamed, its rays broken by mountains and rank forests; while cool wind from the sea alternated with scorching sirocco from the desert. The whole country was covered with such ...
... desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together: that they may see, and know 7, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it." The "nut" tree ...
... desert country. There was not only the date palm, but a number of species, in all some two hundred and fifty varieties. These were the especially loved nesting sites of the doves. The palms grew on the plains of Jericho, in the ravines ...
... desert constantly ravaged the eastern borders of Palestine from Lebanon to Edom, and wandering Arabs from the desert of Shur came up and.