Offers instructions for correctly mounting various kinds of games, from birds and deer to fish and beyond, including sections on mounting heads, fish, and reptiles, tanning skins, collecting and exhibiting insects and eggs, using tools and gathering materials, selecting eyes and wires, and more.
This guidebook is a comprehensive resource for bird watchers and nature enthusiasts who live in or travel to the western United States. It features detailed descriptions and illustrations of hundreds of bird species, as well as information on their habitats, behaviors, and migration patterns. The author, Charles K. Reed, was a prominent naturalist and photographer, and his book is widely regarded as a classic of Western ornithology.
Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors - including royals, politicians and indigenous people - in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was created throughout the empire. -- .