The Natural History of Weasels and Stoats: Ecology, Behavior, and Management, Paperback - C. M. King

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The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important and comprehensive collections of natural history specimens, literat...

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Elegantly and persuasively argues that natural theology was an important presence, not only in the natural histories of the eighteenth and nineteen...

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Publisher: Pryor PublicationsAuthor(s): Albert SmithIllustration(s): 52 line drawingsNumber of pages: 126Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 106 x 13...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan C. EdwardsIllustration(s): 22 b-w photographs, 5 mapsNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

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