The Human Side of Animals [Illustrated, With ATOC]

by Royal Dixon

Overview

WITH TWO ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLORS AND
THIRTY-TWO IN BLACK-AND-WHITE

Published in 1918

CONTENTS

I Animals That Practise Camouflage
II Animal Musicians
III Animals at Play
IV Armour-Bearing and Mail-Clad Animals
V Miners and Excavators
VI Animal Mathematicians
VII The Language of Animals
VIII In Their Boudoirs, Hospitals and Churches
IX Self-Defence and Home-Government
X Architects, Engineers, and House-Builders
XI Food Conservers
XII Tourists and Sight-Seers
XIII Animal Scavengers and Criminals
XIV As the Allies of Man
XV The Future Life of Animals

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013670891
Publisher:	Ladislav Deczi
Publication date:	01/22/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Royal Dixon (1885–1962) was an American author, born at Huntsville, Texas, and educated at the Sam Houston Normal Institute and as a special student at the University of Chicago. After spending five years with the department of botany at the Field Museum of Chicago, he entered the literary field as a member of the Houston Chronicle staff. He made special contributions to the newspapers of New York, where he lectured for the Board of Education. His interest and attention were directed to immigration, as a director of publicity of the Commission of Immigrants in America, and as managing editor of The Immigrants in America Review. His works include:
The Human Side of Plants (1914)
Americanization (1916)
The Human Side of Animals (1918)
Hidden Children (1922)