As June arrives in the farmland of Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley, fox pups emerge from their den and begin to explore their environment, learning about such creatures as the turtle, the woodchuck, and the bullfrog.

Moon of the Fox Pups (The Thirteen Moons)

Children's Books

George, Jean Craighead

Adams, Norman

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

This text recounts the grisly days of hanging, beheading, burning, drowning and torture in Scotland. Criminals in the past were sentenced to die on the gallows, in the drowning pit, or beheaded by one of three instruments: the axe, the two-handed sword, and "the Maiden", a crude machine used in Edinburgh and Aberdeen two centuries before the French guillotine. In medieval times there was hardly a town without its ghastly exhibition of severed heads and limbs. The common hangman, also known as the "lockman", "hangie", "commoune burreour" and "staffman", was much feared. The book also looks at the executioners themselves. There was Andrew Finnie, the Edinburgh hangsman, John Justice, who burned the Aberdeen witches, the mystery hangman of Dundee, Glasgow's famous Tom Young, and John Murdoch, Britain's oldest hangman, who ascended the steps of the scaffold with the aid of a walking stick. Public executioners also used the thumbikins to crush flesh and bones, the cashielaws for roasting flesh, and the torkas - red-hot pincers for tearing out fingernails. They also practised branding, whipping and humiliation of their victims by placing them in the ducking stool, jougs or branks. After the demise of the burgh hangman in Scotland, English "finishers of the law" such as William Calcroft and William Marwood executed Scottish criminals, with the last public hanging taking place at Dumfries in 1868.

Scotland's Chronicles of Blood

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Robert Hale, Ltd.

Inspiring illustrations show how to draw all kinds of wild and domestic animals. Contents: • 1. Elephants • 2. Bears • 3. Horses • 4. Cattle • 5. Deer • 6. Sheep • 7. Primates • 8. Cats • 9. Dogs • 10. Small Animals

Drawing Animals: 30th Anniversary Edition

Arts & Photography

Singer,Joe

History & Criticism

Watson/Guptill

Island Chapters

Adams, Anna

Biographies & Memoirs

Arc Publications

Hangman's Brae is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths at the end of a rope or at the not so delicate hands of The Maiden, a gruesome decapitating device predating the French guillotine. The stories of the men who enforced the law and meted out sentences to the ne'er-do-wells who broke it can be just as interesting and memorable as those of the criminals and Norman Adams introduces the reader to some of them. Here you'll find some real characters such as the Aberdeenshire sheriff and criminal officer who always got his man - once spending two chilling nights chained to a brutal murderer and rapist. And it wasn't just hangings that these men had to perform - their grisly work also involved execution by beheading and drowning, often with some witch-burning for good measure. The many true-crime cases in this book shed new light on just how violent and bloody the north-east of Scotland's past was.

Hangman's Brae: Crime and punishment in and around bygone Aberdeen

Tolbooth Books

Famously banned from entering the annual 'Britain in Bloom' competition to give other towns a chance, Aberdeen is one of the UK's most attractive cities. Including images of Aberdeen's beauty, this work chronicles the city's many different facets.

The Wee Book Of Aberdeen

Photography & Video

Mercat Pr

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