Book Table

Do you love animals and the idea of pets in your home?
This book has been, until now, unavailable online. Rather than a How-To guide, it is presented strictly as “Don’t Do This at Home!”
This annotated version provides additional information, such as a short biography and photo of the author and reference to current municipal by-laws about keeping exotic pets.

Review 

This charming Edwardian e-book on pets and how to keep them, written by Frank Finn in 1907 is now wonderfully annotated with delicious historical and additional up-to-date material by editor Merridy Cox. It starts off with 'Beasts': "the advantage of keeping beasts (except, of course, bats) lies in the fact that they are incapable of flight and have dispositions more responsive to handling and caressing than most other animals". This would have certainly been a book that Downton Abbey's Lord Grantham would have consulted on matters to do with his beloved yellow lab, Isis or Mrs. Patmore on her chicken-filching cat... In reference to guinea pigs as pets, Finn tells us, "These little animals, however, in addition to their charms of colour and quaint liveliness, and eminent suitability for pets, have a positive practical utility in being good for food..." then goes on to describe how to cook them! Apparently, frying is the best!
Beasts as pets include: hedgehogs, flying foxes, meerkats, badger, mongooses, racoons, capuchins, and so many more.
In her annotations, Cox shares lively and often entertaining historical perspective on the material.

Who is your brother? Anyone and everyone within the sphere of your day: whoever you may come across. That's the challenge presented in A Course in Miracles (ACIM): to treat everyone as a brother with forgiveness, cooperation and empathy. The unique thing about ACIM is that it tells you how.

Paperback, illustrated with original B&W photographs.

•Here you have a way to connect with nature, to see swans with empathy, and to learn about other residents of the pond.
•For parents and kids, this e-book is also a good, short read for urban commuters.
•This life of Mute Swans on a pond, in 58 photos, includes encounters with ducks and dogs.
•Photographed over one summer at a large pond in Toronto, Ontario, this is a book you’ll want to read again and again.
•It is important for kids and for all of us to know how to experience nature.

This e-book describes the life of Linnaeus and how he created a binomial system to name plants and animals.

Demystify taxonomy and how to format Latin names in publications.

You spend all your day working indoors and feel a need to connect to nature.
How can you manage to get away from your desk?
This illustrated e-book prescribes five doses of nature for your wellness and relaxation.

A journal for nature lovers, illustrated with original photos of Mute Swans. This journal is ideal for anyone to write or sketch their observations of nature throughout the year. The months are illustrated with a swan photo, as is each solstice and equinox. For each week, two full blank pages include a quotation from the book, A Swan Family's Summer.

Order your book through your local indy bookstore or through Fanfare Books in Stratford, Ontario, in time for the spring Swan Release Festival. Fanfare Books. https://fanfarebooks.ca