Nature's Ways: Lore, Legend, Fact and Fiction

by Ruth Binney

Trying to understand the ways of the natural world has been a human preoccupation since the earliest times. The knowledge of which animals were helpful and which were dangerous, which plants had the power to heal and soothe and which to harm and kill was of obvious importance, not only to learn, but to remember and pass on.It is therefore hardly surprising that from all corners of the earth, a wealth of stories, signs, symbols, myths and legends about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715324179
• ISBN13: 9780715324172
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 7.0"