Bird-Lore, Volume I—1899

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 654K words
Chapters: 66

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Bird-Lore, Volume I—1899 by VariousAuthor: Various,Language: English, Class: QL: Science: Zoology, Release Date: Nov 30, 2014

Editor's review

Bird-Lore, Volume I, is a birdwatching and nature periodical published in 1899, with contributions from multiple authors. Its contents cover bird observation records, descriptions of habits, and essays on nature education, reflecting the early face of the American nature observation and bird conservation movement at the end of the 19th century. As a free Project Gutenberg eBook, it preserves the original periodical's column structure and period tone, and has documentary value for understanding early birdwatching culture, approaches to nature education, and the style of natural history writing. This book is not a modern bird field guide; it lacks systematic identification keys and current scientific-name cross-references, so it is better read as a historical document and a collection of nature essays. It suits readers interested in the history of ornithology, nature education, or English-language natural history literature, and can be read selectively by column or article to sense the care and enthusiasm with which observers recorded birds a century ago.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers interested in the history of ornithology and early birdwatching culture
Teachers and enthusiasts studying nature education or natural history writing
Readers who enjoy English nature essays and are willing to read public-domain material slowly
Researchers needing source material on late-19th-century nature periodicals

Not a good fit for

Birdwatching beginners hoping to identify species with this book
Readers needing modern bird taxonomy and distribution information
Readers who prefer contemporary Chinese nature writing and are unaccustomed to old-style English

Reading tips

Read selectively by column or article, prioritizing bird observation records and nature education essays.
While reading, consult a modern bird field guide to identify the species and habit descriptions mentioned.
Treat it as a historical document and note the concerns and modes of expression of late-19th-century birdwatchers.
Old English periodicals can be read in sections; after each piece, make brief notes to build natural history vocabulary.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.

FAQ

Can this book be used to identify birds?

It cannot serve as a modern identification tool. It is a periodical from 1899 and lacks systematic keys, modern scientific names, and distribution maps, and its descriptions carry the limitations of their time. For bird identification, pair it with contemporary field guides and bird databases; this book is better suited to historical and literary reading.

What does Volume I mainly contain?

According to the source information, it is the 1899 first volume of Bird-Lore, with contributions from multiple authors, and belongs to ornithology and nature observation periodicals. Specific articles require consulting the eBook's table of contents; the contents concern bird observation, habit records, and early natural history writing such as nature education.

Is it suitable as classroom material for nature education?

It can be used as supplementary historical material, but it is not recommended as a main classroom textbook. The book's language and knowledge background are far removed from the present; teachers should select observation-record passages and pair them with modern bird knowledge to help students understand the historical evolution of birdwatching culture.

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Various Author

Various is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.