03084cam a22003613u 4500 76743 UtSlPG 20260610134757.0 m cr n 260607r20251910utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG nl iso639-1 QH Thijsse, Jac. P. (Jacobus Pieter), 1865-1945 Blonde duinen Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-08-27 Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg Blonde duinen by Jac. P. Thijsse is an illustrated popular natural history book written in the early 20th century. It offers guided rambles through the Dutch coastal dunes, using vivid observation and approachable explanations to reveal how plants, animals, and landscapes fit together. Expect seasonal field sketches that blend storytelling with fieldcraft, encouraging readers—especially the young—to notice, collect, and care about the living world. The opening of the work sets out a friendly preface: these “nature albums” are meant to put good color plates and real outdoor experience within easy reach, so that young people learn nature by seeing. It quickly shifts into lively dune vignettes: a teacher’s cheerful “rabbit hunt” with pupils for skulls becomes a lesson in snares, scavengers, and rabbit life (burrows, frosty signs, rampant breeding, evening grazing). A birch-dale chapter follows with bark and fungus, then moths and larvae as masters of disguise (buff-tip, peppered moth, emerald), plus birds such as nightingale, song thrush, willow warbler, and a few deft plant notes (violets’ self-fertilizing flowers, garlic mustard with orange-tip). A June evening piece captures flowers closing and opening, moth- and hawk-moth pollination, and the arrival of bats, toads, hedgehogs, shrews, nightjars, grasshopper warblers, and stone-curlews. A hot June afternoon rounds it out with hedgerow and dune blooms, June beetles in roses, leafcutter bees fashioning brood cells, climbing bryony, showy ragwort and mullein feeders, and small passerines like tree pipit and whinchat—set against the brood-parasitic cuckoo. Overall, these first chapters read as gently didactic rambles that model how to notice, name, and connect dune life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Zaandam: Bakkerij "De Ruijter" der firma Verkade & comp., 1910 Natural history -- Netherlands Advertising cards -- Netherlands Koninklijke Verkade (Firm) -- Collectibles Sand dunes -- Netherlands Oort, Jan van, 1867-1938 Wenckebach, L. W. R. (Ludwig Willem Reymert), 1860-1937 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76743 117468 117468