His book includes recipes for vegetable and casserole dishes, breads, cakes, muffins and twenty different pies. He also shows how to make numerous jellies, jams, teas, and wines, and how to sweeten them with wild honey or homemade maple syrup.

    

    With ardor and poetry Eiseley rekindles the importance of Bacon's thought and evokes its depth as well as its modern relevancy.

    It mirrors the leap forward taken by Derek and Jeannie Tangye when they decided to leave their glamorous lives in London for an isolated cottage in Cornwall called Minack, accompanied by their cat Monty. Derek has continued to live at Minack after Jeannie's death, and this book is the story of his present way of life.

    This is an omnibus edition of the two books, published a ye ar after Murray''s death. '

    Lavishly illustrated, Sensitive Chaos shows the unifying forces that underlie all living things, and observes such phenomena as the flight of birds; the formation of internal organs such as the heart, eye, and ear, air patterns in musical instruments; the formation of mountain ranges and river deltas; weather and space patterns; and even the formation of the human embryo.

    The enchanting true story of Gavin Maxwell's life with the three otters he kept as pets, and the enormous changes they brought to his life.

    Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now--these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life. This is a poet of the modern world, thoroughly aware of the complexities of the moment but equally mindful of the great stream of life--all life--of which mankind is only a part.

    Illustrated with wonderful photographs and line drawings and accompanied by enticing, informative text as only National Geographic can provide!