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100 1 _aThijsse, Jac. P.
_q(Jacobus Pieter),
_d1865-1945
245 1 0 _aTexel
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aVerkade's album.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-06
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/
520 _a"Texel" by Jac. P. Thijsse is an illustrated nature guide and travelogue written in the early 20th century. It presents the Dutch island of Texel through vivid field observations, gentle memoir, and suggested routes, with a strong emphasis on birdlife, dunes, polders, and changing landscapes. The work blends natural history with local customs and an early conservation ethos, inviting readers to explore the island’s flora, fauna, and seascapes. The opening of the book sets Texel alongside Europe’s great “playgrounds,” then recalls the author’s arrival in the 1890s as a young schoolmaster, his swift attachment to the island, and a two‑day walk around its entire coast. He sketches the terrain—tuunwallen, stolp farmsteads, dunes, beaches, slufters, and polders—while noting memorable encounters with shorebirds and seabirds, and the island culture of egg-finding, skating, and polsstok jumping. Subsequent pages turn to inland discoveries: small alder groves and rich dune valleys like the Fonteinsnol and the Mient, once brimming with gentians, orchids, and marsh birds, and later altered by drainage and afforestation. The narrative then shifts into a guide-like excursion with a school group: the ferry crossing, porpoises in the Texelstroom, cycling via De Waal through the polder Waal en Burg to De Koog, watching avocets, godwits, lapwings, and wildflowers, and visiting the guarded gull and tern colony at De Staart (including a freshly hatching chick and a swimming lapwing chick). At the start of the next chapter, the party rides toward Oosterend and the polder Het Noorden, where the author contrasts the former overwhelming bird abundance with the still-notable “Bol,” before pausing on the Waddenzeedijk to peer into the sluice waters and glimpse marine life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cZaandam: Verkade's Fabrieken, 1927
653 _aAdvertising cards -- Netherlands
653 _aKoninklijke Verkade (Firm) -- Collectibles
653 _aTexel (Netherlands) -- Juvenile literature
653 _aNatural history -- Netherlands -- Texel -- Juvenile literature
700 1 _aKoeman, Jacobus Jan,
_d1889-1978
700 1 _aBeek, Sam van
_q(Samuel Joseph),
_d1878-1957
700 1 _aRol, C.
_q(Cornelis),
_d1877-1963
700 1 _aVoerman, Jan,
_d1890-1976
700 1 _aWenckebach, L. W. R.
_q(Ludwig Willem Reymert),
_d1860-1937
830 0 _aVerkade's album.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76234
999 _c116959
_d116959