A detailed handbook and guide. The illustrated contents include The Dawn of Pigeon Racing - Art of Breeding - The Practical Selection of Breeders - Breeding a Champion - Colour Breeding - Breeding Grizzlies - Practical Breeding etc. Originally published early 1900s. Many of the earliest livestock [...]

Secret Pigeon Service is an original piece of investigation, bringing a brand new meaning to `air force'. Corera uses declassified files with original reporting from across Europe and pays homage to the families of those who risked their lives to send back messages, melding the human stories with th[...]

The Swallows and Amazons launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold mine of the high hills above the lake. But the mining camp runs into all sorts of trouble, such as the danger of fire in the drought ridden countryside and scary encounters with unsafe tunnels.[...]

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pigeon" is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from[...]

The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance - if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also kept by people all over the world for pleasure, sp[...]

"Christmas Pudding "and "Pigeon Pie "are two sparkling comedies from early in the career of Nancy Mitford, beloved author of "The Pursuit of Love "and "Love in a Cold Climate, "here published in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley.
In "Christmas Pudding," an array of colorful chara[...]

Lying in front of Harrison Opoku is a body, the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his crazy basketball skills, who seems to have been murdered for his dinner. Armed with a pair of camouflage binoculars and detective techniques absorbed from television shows like "CSI, " Harri and his be[...]

If you can read this, you obviously understand Pigeonese. You may read my book. If you're a cat and you've learnt Pigeonese...(HA HA HA! As if a cat would be smart enough to learn Pigeonese). This must mean if you are a cat and you are able to read this, you have taken a pigeon hostage so that you c[...]

At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a stretch. Yet by the end of the century, the [...]

"Recounted with the storytelling elan of a master raconteur -- by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carre, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from t[...]