FREE ONLINE BOOKS
BY NATURALIST JIM
CONRAD
| Nature, Man & The Creative Universal Force Excerpts from Jim's weekly newsletter issued during his years of living as a hermit in the woods near Natchez, Mississippi, as well as locations in California, Kentucky and Mexico.. Contains insights derived from a life that is often solitary and nearly always close to nature. words: ±47, 400 |
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TEXT ONLY (.txt) for
WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings printed pages: ±90
single spaced |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc),
formatted with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in book
form |
WORD FOR MACINTOSH
(.mcw), with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in
book form |
| The Natchez Naturalist
Newsletter (the book) Excerpts from Jim's weekly newsletter issued during his years of living as a hermit in the woods near Natchez, Mississippi. Contains descriptions of plants and animals, and Jim's simple but always interesting life. words: ±74,700 |
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WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings printed pages: ±138
single spaced |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no
drawings but with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in book form |
WORD FOR MACINTOSH
(.mcw), no drawings but with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to
print in book form |
| Red Dog A book for young people, about the days when Jim walked with his dog on the gravel road running by his house in rural western Kentucky. words: ±7,200 |
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TEXT ONLY (.txt) for
WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings printed pages: ±23
single spaced |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with
Jim's color drawings and formatted with
fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in book form |
WORD FOR MACINTOSH
(.mcw), no drawings or formatting but at least you can read it.
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| Mistletoe: One Year in The Life of
An Eastern Gray Squirrel Twelve chapters for each month of the year comprise this short book, with each chapter needing no more than ten to fifteen minutes to read. Jim made every effort for Mistletoe's behavior to reflect what real squirrels in the wild are like. No talking animals here. Still, Mistletoe manages to have a pretty interesting year. words: ±17, 800 |
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TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings printed pages: ±40
single spaced |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no
drawings but with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in book form |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with
Jim's color drawings, fully formatted, ready
to print in book form |
| Yellow Ribbon: One Year in The
Life of A House Sparrow Twelve chapters for each month of the year comprise this short book, with each chapter needing no more than ten to fifteen minutes to read. Jim made every effort for Yellow Ribbon's behavior to reflect what real House Sparrows in the wild are like. No talking animals here. Still, Yellow Ribbon manages to have a pretty interesting year. words: ±17, 800 |
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| THREE OPTIONS: | ||
TEXT ONLY (.txt) for
WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings printed pages: ±40
single spaced |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no
drawings but with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in book form |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with
Jim's color drawings, fully formatted, ready
to print in book form |
| A 1996 Birding Trip through
Mexico From sand dunes in extreme northern Mexico to borderline cloudforest in extreme southern Mexico, with both coasts, a volcanic peak and both the Eastern and Western Sierra Madres, this account is half birds and half about the people and landscape. words: ±52,200 |
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TEXT ONLY (.txt) for
WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings printed pages: ±109
single spaced |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no
illustrations but fully formatted with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to
print in book form |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with
Jim's color drawings and formatted with
fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in book form |
| Spring Comes to The Desert The day after Christmas, 1987, Jim left for the Southwestern Desert, then for the next few months camped in various deserts chronicling the coming of spring. words: ±35,700 |
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TEXT ONLY (.txt) for
WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings printed pages: ±72
single spaced |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with
maps showing each stop and a few pictures. Also formatted with fonts, highlighting
and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in book form |
| One Day in the Life of a Mexican
Market Around 1995 Jim spent a day in the giant, very crowded, colorful, loud, smelly, very interesting Merced Mercado in Mexico City, writing what he saw and experienced one hour after the other. Here you can read those notes. |
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TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings printed pages: ±21 single
spaced |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no
drawings but with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in book form |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with
several photographs, fully formatted, ready to print in book form |
| Yerba Buena: Word-Snapshots from a
Missionary Clinic in Southern Mexico's Indian Territory In 1988 Jim visited an isolated hospital clinic in southern Mexico serving the area's indigenous population. Here you can meet people and read about scenery and events that most people in the computer-using world can hardly imagine. |
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TEXT ONLY (.txt) for WordPad and other text viewers, no formatting, no drawings printed pages: ±117 single
spaced |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), no
drawings but with fonts, highlighting and spaced paragraphs, ready to print in book form |
MICROSOFT WORD (.doc), with
photographs, fully formatted, ready to print in book form |