- EAN13
- 9782384690862
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 26/04/2022
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782384690862
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Fonctionnalités
- Balisage de la langue fourni
Normes et Réglementations
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3.49
Seated on the dry hill-side here, by the belted blue Mediterranean, I have
picked up from the ground a bit of blanched and moldering bone, well cleaned
to my hand by the unconscious friendliness of the busy ants; and looking
closely at it I recognize it at once, with a sympathetic sigh, for the solid
welded tail-piece of some departed British tourist swallow. He came here like
ourselves, no doubt, to escape the terrors of an English winter: but among
these pine-clad Provençal summits some nameless calamity overtook him, from
greedy kestrel or from native sportsman, and left him here, a sheer hulk, for
the future contemplation of a wandering and lazy field-naturalist. Fit text,
truly, for a sermon on the ancestry of birds; for this solid tail-bone of his
tells more strangely than any other part of his whole anatomy the curious
story of his evolution from some primitive lizard-like progenitor. Close by
here, among the dry rosemary and large-leaved cistus by my side, a few
weathered tips of naked basking limestone are peeping thirstily through the
arid soil; and on one of these gray lichen-covered masses a motionless gray
lizard sits sunning his limbs, in hue and spots just like the lichen itself,
so that none but a sharp eye could detect his presence, or distinguish his
little curling body from the jutting angles of the rock, to which it adapts
itself with such marvelous accuracy.
picked up from the ground a bit of blanched and moldering bone, well cleaned
to my hand by the unconscious friendliness of the busy ants; and looking
closely at it I recognize it at once, with a sympathetic sigh, for the solid
welded tail-piece of some departed British tourist swallow. He came here like
ourselves, no doubt, to escape the terrors of an English winter: but among
these pine-clad Provençal summits some nameless calamity overtook him, from
greedy kestrel or from native sportsman, and left him here, a sheer hulk, for
the future contemplation of a wandering and lazy field-naturalist. Fit text,
truly, for a sermon on the ancestry of birds; for this solid tail-bone of his
tells more strangely than any other part of his whole anatomy the curious
story of his evolution from some primitive lizard-like progenitor. Close by
here, among the dry rosemary and large-leaved cistus by my side, a few
weathered tips of naked basking limestone are peeping thirstily through the
arid soil; and on one of these gray lichen-covered masses a motionless gray
lizard sits sunning his limbs, in hue and spots just like the lichen itself,
so that none but a sharp eye could detect his presence, or distinguish his
little curling body from the jutting angles of the rock, to which it adapts
itself with such marvelous accuracy.
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