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Author : Pear Tree Press (Auckland, N.Z.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (516 download)
Download or read book An Account of a 19th Century Moa Sighting written by Pear Tree Press (Auckland, N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Tasker
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130007079X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Quest Aotearoa -- Volume One written by John Tasker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do small bush moa still inhabit the wildeness areas of the South Island? Does an otter-like creature frequent the waterways of the lower South Island? Do large black cats the size of an Alsation dog roam around the back country of Canterbury and Otago? What was the crocodile-like creature seen by so many in the Waikato River in the 1880s? Do Plesiosaurs live in the sea along the east coast of the North Island? Do hairy ape-like creatures roam around isolated areas of New Zealand bush? And who can explain the various unidentified life forms reported by the pioneers in the nineteenth century? There are many unanswered questions. This book presents all the material and leaves it to the reader to reach their own conclusions.
Author : Annie Potts
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775580040
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)
Download or read book A New Zealand Book of Beasts written by Annie Potts and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touching on indigenous Maori relationships with the now-extinct, flightless moa; the attitudes of Pakeha, or European, settlers toward sheep; the iconography of whales and dolphins; the problems of pest-control; and the pleasures of pet-keeping, this modern-day bestiary is a fascinating study of human&–animal relations. In the book's four parts, the authors unravel the contradictory ways New Zealanders nurture and eradicate, glorify and demonize, cherish and devour, and describe and imagine animals. The study brings together insights from New Zealand's arts and literature, popular culture, historiography, media, and everyday life to describe and analyze their interactions with nga kararehe and nga manu, the beasts and birds of the land. In doing so, it illuminates fundamental aspects of New Zealand society: how New Zealanders understand their own identities and those of others; how they regard, inhabit, and make use of the natural world; and how they think about what they buy, eat, wear, watch, and read. Rich, multifaceted, and engaging, A New Zealand Book of Beasts satisfyingly explores how culture both shapes and is shaped by the &“beasts&” of Aotearoa.
Author : Bruce Spittle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473153564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Moa Sightings written by Bruce Spittle and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hunting pressure, habitat destruction, and introduced predators led to moa extinction by A.D. 1650 according to the previously held serial overkill model. In the currently accepted rapid "blitzkrieg" model, all the moas were gone by A.D. 1450, over 300 years before the first Europeans landed with Captain Cook in 1769. However a number of moa sighting claims have been made since 1769 and the moas lingered on until a later date in some remote, isolated areas."--Back cover.
Author : Jeff Campbell
Publisher : Zest Books ™
ISBN 13 : 154158189X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Last of the Giants written by Jeff Campbell and published by Zest Books ™. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, and there is only one likely reason for that: the evolution and arrival of the earth's only tool-wielding hunter, the wildly adaptive, comparatively pint-sized human species. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures—including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk—have vanished since our world became truly global. Last of the Giants chronicles those giant animals and apex predators pushed to extinction in the modern era. The book also highlights those giant species that remain—even though many barely survive, living in such low numbers that they are on the brink of leaving this world within the next few decades. However, there is hope, for many endangered species can still be saved. As it profiles each extinct and endangered animal, Last of the Giants focuses on the conservation efforts that are trying to preserve the world's remaining charismatic species before they are lost forever.
Author : T. H. Worthy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253340344
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Lost World of the Moa written by T. H. Worthy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the rich and unusual fauna of prehistoric New Zealand, telling of one of the most dramatic extinctions of modern times. The moa, a giant flightless bird, was among the animals lost, the authors summarize what is known about the bird, reconstructing its life and ecology.
Author : Roy Willis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134866364
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Signifying Animals written by Roy Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.
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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The ISC Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Delphine Angst
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0081011431
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Palaeobiology of Giant Flightless Birds written by Delphine Angst and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches have been used to study them, with sometimes contradictory results. This book summarizes the current knowledge of the paleobiology of seven groups of giant flightless birds: Dinornithiformes, Aepyornithiformes, Dromornithidae, Phorusrhacidae, Brontornithidae, Gastornithidae and Gargantuavis. The first chapter presents the global diversity of these birds and reviews the tools and methods used to study their paleobiology. Chapters 2 to 8 are each dedicated to one of the seven groups of extinct birds. Finally, a conclusion offers a global synthesis of the information presented in the book in an attempt to define a common evolutionary model. Focuses on the giant flightless birds that evolved independently in different parts of the world since the Cretaceous period Covers a number of different families with different evolutionary histories, providing a source of interesting comparisons Provides emphasis on the palaeobiology of these birds, including their evolution, adaptations, mode of life, ecology and extinction
Author : Randi Minetor
Publisher : Wellfleet
ISBN 13 : 157715374X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Complete Language of Birds written by Randi Minetor and published by Wellfleet. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Language of Birds offers stunningly illustrated profiles of nearly 400 bird species, covering both their physical and mystical qualities.
Author : Barney Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Te Moa written by Barney Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and death of New Zealand's unique bird. Everyone knows about the moa: large, flightless and, alas, extinct. But what sort of creature was the moa and how did it live? Why did the moa die out - and when? Did any Europeans ever see one? Puzzled by these intriguing questions, Barney Brewster (author of Antarctica: Wilderness at Risk) delved deep into the mystery of the moa. The result of two years' research, Te Moa presents some surprising findings in an easy, readable style.
Author : Judith Binney
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 192713109X
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (271 download)
Download or read book The Shaping of History written by Judith Binney and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of history will only flourish if there is a vehicle for its publication: such was Sir Keith Sinclair’s vision when he founded The New Zealand Journal of History in 1967. Since then the journal has been the conduit for a flow of remarkable history writing. The Shaping of History brings together a selection of essays from its first 30 years by some of the nation’s best-known historians, including Judith Binney, Tipene O’Regan, Claudia Orange, Barbara Brookes, Alan Ward, Jock Phillips and Jamie Belich. Their sharp analysis and great storytelling make the collection an essential resource for understanding how New Zealand history is shaped.
Author : Daniel Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780880294423
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (944 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Monsters written by Daniel Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1990-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes popular myths about land and sea monsters, phantoms, monstrous birds and bats, extraterrestrials, and weird creatures.
Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Bigfoot to Mothman written by Margo DeMello and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume encyclopedia introduces readers to the world's cryptids-those hidden or secret animals believed to exist at the margins of human society-including Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Mothman. Comprehensive in its scope, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to know more about well-known creatures of myth and legend, such as the Chupacabra and the Jersey Devil, and discover lesser-known animals, such as the Bunyip of Australia and the Mamlambo of South Africa. Rather than purport to prove or deny the existence of these creatures, however, this volume classifies them within their respective cultural, historical, and social contexts, allowing readers to appreciate cryptids as cultural artifacts important to societies around the globe. Finally, this book goes beyond the study of the unknown to investigate who believes in cryptids, why they do, and why the study of cryptozoology is as much about understanding cryptids as it is about understanding ourselves.
Author : Terence George Craddock
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504320549
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Ghost Eagle Still Flies Ghost Skies written by Terence George Craddock and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a volume of poetry which will appeal to lovers of both simple poetry and poetry of depth and complexity. Craddock writes nature beginning his volume of verse with simple short poems, laced with poetry exploring nature, then extends into human interaction with nature and aspects of human nature probed in contemporary and historical context. Craddock has revisited themes of nature, time, cosmic consciousness, which he explores and pursed in Eagles Soar On High Thermals, while extending ideas found in the esteemed volume of poetry, Leaves of Grass, by Walt Witman into contempory scientific discoveries. Craddock has weaved links in nature crossing between nature and the natural world and the nature of society, descending down through various cultures countries and societies. Brushstroke echoes of William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe and Sylvia Plath will intermix the beauty of nature with romantic or current issues including pollution, global warming and land rape of prestine wilderness areas. A gothic tribute to Poe's poem annabel Lee is made with a Scottish highland twist. A must read for inquisitive minds desiring to pursue poetic expression, thoughs engaging with insights into enduring mysteries of life and nature.
Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 0805099794
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Sixth Extinction written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
Author : Atholl Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543965
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Prodigious Birds written by Atholl Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prodigious Birds brings together the entire field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large flightless bird, hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. Atholl Anderson brings an historical perspective to the development of moa research and its formative debates, analytical methods and results, reviewing evidence from palaeontology, biology, archaeology, ethnography and history.
