Birds, Beasts & Insects

Natural history as literature — Fabre’s insects, Seton’s wild animals, and the writers who took the non-human world seriously.

The animal world, written down

In this collection

• Voyage to Far N'Jurd
• The Truce of the Bear
• The Garden
• Weathers
• Optimism of Byron
• A Promised Fast Train
• When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Volume III
• Beginners
• Waiting for Water
• Come, my Little Children, here are Songs for You
• Symbolism
• Eight-Legged Friends
• House Operator
• Reflections on the Operation of the Present System of Education, 1853
• Some Remarks on Gulls
• The Call of the Canyon
• Inheritance
• A Madrigal of Sorrow
• The Light of God
• The Legend of Tāwhaki
• Hawk Eye
• X-Ray, Violet Ray, and other Rays
• The Fount
• The Lament of the Looking-Glass
• Wild Life under the Equator
• The World of the Great Forest

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