[bookshare-discuss] Book Submitted: The world of the BEaver
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:46:02 -0400
I found the adult's section on mammals, still trying to find the reptiles
and amphibians, you would think they would be together, but they aren't.
Anyway here is the first of hopefully several good books on mammals for
adults.
The World of the Beaver
under the .rtf section for anyone interested in validation. is an up and
down validation, seriously.
from the book Jacket:
"According to a Cherokee legend," writes Leonard Lee Rue in The World of the
Beaver, "it was the Great Spirit, with the help of gigantic beavers, who
created the earth. The earth had been covered with water until the Great
Spirit sent the beavers diving down beneath the surface to dredge up mud
from the bottom to form land masses."
Although the beaver is not, nowadays, as big as his legendary ancestors, he
continues to be enormously helpful to man and beast. Here Leonard Lee Rue
reveals the world and way of life of the good -natured, industrious
American beaver and follows him through a full year of his ordinary
activities. How does a beaver fell a tree? What does he eat? Is he
polygamous or monogamous? How does he build a dam? What does the inside of
his lodge look like? Who has been his most deadly enemy in America?
The author-whose interest in beavers has caused him to go swimming with them
and, on one occasion, led to his becoming stuck in the passage to a
lodge-answers all these questions and many others. The informal narrative
and the author's remarkable photographs make this really first-rate reading
for the nature student and for the ordinary reader.
"As intent as man seems to be on destroying the earth," writes Leonard Lee
Rue in conclusion, "the Creator may again have to call upon the beavers to
help patch things up. The earth's future couldn't be in better paws."
About the Author
In 1962, when Leonard Lee Rue's The World of the White-tailed Deer was
published, The New Yorker remarked that he wrote "with a sureness and a
sensibility that give his report almost a subjective cast."
Mr. Rue is, in fact, very well acquainted with (and fond of) not only
white-tailed deer and beavers, but the whole outdoors. For nearly fifteen
years, Mr. Rue has been a camp ranger for the George Washington Council of
the Boy Scouts of America. He is co-owner and trail director of Adventures
Unlimited, which runs canoe trips in the Canadian wilderness, and is chief
gamekeeper for the Coventry Hunting Club. He is a member of the National
Audubon Society, the Wildlife Society, and the Society of American
Mammalogists.
Mr. Rue's photographs and articles have appeared in National Geographic,
Look, Life, True, Pageant, Natural History, Outdoor Life and more than a
hundred other publications in the United States, as well as in magazines
abroad. He lectures on nature for schools, churches, and civic and
sportsmen's groups and writes monthly columns for Camping Guide and Guns and
Hunting.
A native of New Jersey, the author grew up in Paterson and on a farm near
Belvidere. He, his wife, and their three sons now live near Columbia, New
Jersey.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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