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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... EAGLE CHAPTER VII – THE SPARROW CHAPTER VIII – THE OSTRICH CHAPTER IX – THE COCK AND HEN CHAPTER X – THE HAWK CHAPTER XI – QUAIL AND PARTRIDGE CHAPTER XII – THE BITTERN CHAPTER XIII – THE SWALLOW CHAPTER XIV – THE PEACOCK CHAPTER XV ...
... eagle, of which he wrote: "Lady Phaemonae, who was supposed and said to be the daughter of Apollo, hath reported that this eagle is toothed; with her accordeth Boethus likewise." He also wrote in describing the birds of Diomedes ...
... eagle continued to curve as it grew older until the bird died of starvation. He confirmed the story that swans sang; and accounted for the number of partridges by explaining that they build two nests, on one of which the male broods ...
... eagle; for color, as yellow and bright as gold (namely, all about the neck; ) the rest of the body a deep red purple; the tail azure blue, intermingled with feathers among of rose carnation color; and the head bravely adorned with a ...
... eagle's eggs." He described a number of other fabled birds, and attached all the current superstition to the history of each, even to the account of the barnyard fowl that spoke. But, as almost all of the birds described are among the ...