Lorus Johnson Milne (1912–1972)

Biographies of Naturalists; Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek; Carl Linnaeus; Gilbert White; John James Audubon; Louis Agassiz; Charles Darwin; Henry David Thoreau; .J. Henri Fabre; John Burroughs; John Muir; Frank M. Chapman; David Fairchild; Thomas Barbour.

Verde 125

A sweeping overview of OUR world of night, ie, vs, a different world. Granted, there are dramatic temporal changes and attempts are made to describe these in temperate woods, cities, shorelines, tropical rain forests (called "jungles" here), the SW USA desert, the Arctic, etc. The writing is stilted and flowery, a bit dated, and there's only a paragraph or two on each organism described. 2 1/2 stars, another 1/2 thrown in for a fascinating reading topic.

A good book on basic machine shop practice. It is dated, but still useful.