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Hippos, a mongoose and me

Author : Karen Paolillo
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1779890028
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Hippos, a mongoose and me written by Karen Paolillo and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to the popular A Hippo Love Story, author Karen Paolillo takes us deeper into her courageous but perilous life among Africa’s wildlife. Hippos, a Mongoose and Me is a collection of vivid stories reflecting the decades that Karen has lived and worked in the wilds of southeast Zimbabwe. The tales encompass a wide variety of animals and experiences, including Karen’s extraordinary affinity with hippos, life with her beloved mongoose, characterful baboons and rescued birds, close encounters with lions and an injured buffalo, and her heart-stopping flight from an enraged elephant. To add to the drama, Karen and her husband Jean-Roger must face off against the drumbeat of political subterfuge and poaching of wildlife, sometimes at great personal risk. Inspiring, surprising and sometimes sad, this heartfelt anthology is testament to the courage and resilience of its intrepid author. Sales points: Moving stories of great courage in the face of increasing threat to Africa’s wildlife. Heart-warming tales in the popular genres of animal-human interaction and wildlife rescue. A sequel to the best-selling A Hippo Love Story by the same author. Colour photographs of the cast of characters featured in the book.

Hippos, a Mongoose and Me

Author : Karin Paolillo
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 9781779890016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Hippos, a Mongoose and Me written by Karin Paolillo and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to the popular A Hippo Love Story, Karen Paolillo takes us deeper into her courageous but perilous life among Africa's wildlife. Hippos, a Mongoose and Me is a collection of vivid stories reflecting the decades that Karen has lived and worked in the wilds of south-east Zimbabwe. The tales encompass a wide variety of animals and experiences, including Karen's extraordinary affinity with hippos; life with her beloved mongoose, characterful baboons and rescued birds; close encounters with lions and an injured buffalo; and her heart-stopping flight from an enraged elephant. To add to the drama, Karen and her husband Jean-Roger must face off against the drumbeat of political subterfuge and poaching of wildlife, sometimes at great personal risk. Inspiring, surprising and sometimes sad, this heartfelt anthology is testament to the courage and resilience of its intrepid author.

A Hippo Love Story

Author : Karen Paolillo
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143531530
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book A Hippo Love Story written by Karen Paolillo and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the threads that hold human society together unravel, the animal kingdom suffers. Karen Paolillo discovered this first-hand in Zimbabwe when she developed a close connection with thirteen hippos in their natural habitat, the Turgwe River. Her mission to save these exceptional animals after they came under threat of drought, land invasions and poachers developed into a beautiful African love story. It is also the stirring tale of how one woman faced personal and financial adversities while ensuring the survival of a family of hippos, with Bob, a three-ton bull, as their leader. With the establishment of the Turgwe Hippo Trust, Karen has triumphed as guardian of the hippos, and the animals have prospered ever since. A Hippo Love Story shares this heroic journey of a nature lover who became an ally of one of Africa's most fearsome animal species.

Moonlight in the Desert of Left Behind

Author : Jan Baumgartner
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 0998632015
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book Moonlight in the Desert of Left Behind written by Jan Baumgartner and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly married, writer Jan Baumgartner and her husband, John, pack up their home and busy lives in San Francisco trading the city verve for a quieter one along the rural coast of Maine. Looking forward to a slower pace, a life intertwined with nature, and greater opportunities to satiate their wanderlust for world travel, the couple buys a rambling Victorian house on the shores of Eggemoggin Reach, excited to begin this new chapter of their lives. But just a few years later, they receive the unexpected and devastating news that her husband is terminally ill with ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. In their 30s and 40s, in a place not quite yet home, without family or closest friends nearby, and facing a crippling disease that will leave him paralyzed from the neck down, the author chronicles the heartbreak and depth of their love as she struggles with the emotional and physical challenges as a full-time caregiver for her dying husband. Throughout the journey, she finds an unexpected source of inspiration in her travels to Africa, with and without John, a healing connection with the bounty of nature surrounding their coastal home, and her determination to one day return to her beloved Africa. From the rugged isolation of the Maine coast to the wilds of the African bush, Moonlight in the Desert of Left Behind is a poignant and often heartrendingly candid story of devotion, courage, and ultimately, hope.

Go to the Ark

Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098028783
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Go to the Ark written by Christopher Murray and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go to the Ark is a fascinating story on how the animals made their way to the Ark to escape God's judgment. All throughout their journey, the animals encounter some of the common stumbling blocks Christians face in their walk with Jesus. This story is an allegory of apologetics that will identify these stumbling blocks and help equip the believer to counteract them. This story will also cause you to think deeply about what you believe in light of God's judgment. As you journey with the animals you will be encouraged as your faith is strengthened with each encounter. Relax, get comfortable, and begin reading a story like no other!

On Waters North and South

Author : Thomas E. Grove Ph. D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456745654
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book On Waters North and South written by Thomas E. Grove Ph. D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected stories of fishing, travel and safaris explore the dynamics of group behavior, male bonding and thoughts concerning the remaining wildernes in an era of changing values and environmental crisis. The central themes include friendships, responsibility, change, self-evaluation, and the constant influences of bodies of water on the author. Beginning with fishing trips in the 1980's and 90's, Grove drifts into the present as he recounts his travels from Canada and the USA to Zambia, Zanzibar, and continental Tanzania. Through a series of short stories he moves from the self assuredness of his early forties into personal assessments and ponderings of his early sixties. Personal observations, social comment, humor, bounded exaggeration and the crankiness of aging accompanied by travelogue, complement his observations and thoughts along the way.

Tropical Forest Biomes

Author : Barbara A. Holzman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313087431
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Forest Biomes written by Barbara A. Holzman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World series covers the lush, beautiful - and rapidly shrinking - tropical forest biomes. The volume covers the two major tropic forest biomes, tropical rainforests and tropical seasonal forests.

From Metropolis to Wilderness: An Empowering Journey

Author : Doug Williamson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483463702
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book From Metropolis to Wilderness: An Empowering Journey written by Doug Williamson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about a life, a life of travel and learning. Doug Williamson was born in South Africa. He has had several careers and lived in seven different countries. Now, he lives in Cambridge with his wife and much loved poodle.

Fauna and flora

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Head Hunters of the Amazon

Author : Fritz Updegraff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589762336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Head Hunters of the Amazon written by Fritz Updegraff and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Head Hunters of the Amazon is one of the greatest adventure books of all time. In 1894 the author, just out of a New York college, took off for the headwaters of the Amazon. For seven years he survived piranhas, army ants, vampire bats, electric eels, murdous pirates, giant whirpools, 30-foot anacondas, sand crabs, parasites, and -- of course -- headhunters. Book jacket.

The Social Instinct

Author : Nichola Raihani
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125026281X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Social Instinct written by Nichola Raihani and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Enriching" —Publisher's Weekly "Excellent and illuminating"—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how life progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material to nation states. But given what we know about evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all the genes in the body care about is being passed on to the next generation? Why do meerkats care for one another’s offspring? Why do babbler birds in the Kalahari form colonies in which only a single pair breeds? And how come some reef-dwelling fish punish each other for harming fish from another species? A biologist by training, Raihani looks at where and how collaborative behavior emerges throughout the animal kingdom, and what problems it solves. She reveals that the species that exhibit cooperative behaviour most similar to our own tend not to be other apes; they are birds, insects, and fish, occupying far more distant branches of the evolutionary tree. By understanding the problems they face, and how they cooperate to solve them, we can glimpse how human cooperation first evolved. And we can also understand what it is about the way we cooperate that makes us so distinctive–and so successful.

Letters from Africa

Author : Cynthia Wales Tuthill
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595531237
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Africa written by Cynthia Wales Tuthill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Tuthill embarked on her first safari into the African bush in 2003, honoring the death of her best friend, the astronaut Kalpana Chawla, in the crash of the space shuttle Columbia. She and her husband fell deeply in love with the animals and the people they met in the wilds of southern Africa, and the experience changed their lives. They have traveled back every year and lovingly chronicled each experience in detailed letters to Kalpana's sisters in India. The letters follow the daily routine in remote bush camps, covering the details of camp life along with the excitement and thrill of walking safaris, canoe trips, and game drives. One can almost hear the hippos by night and smell the fresh lavender along the path, as Tuthill describes the nightly "sundowners" enjoyed with her beloved husband, and details the spectacular views and experiences they shared together. In this poignant set of travel essays Tuthill depicts the glories of ecotravel and demonstrates how our vacation dollars can be used to help save the continent of Africa.

Animals

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Perspectives on Science and Culture

Author : Kris Rutten
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612495222
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Science and Culture written by Kris Rutten and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific discourse from the perspectives of rhetorical criticism, comparative cultural studies, narratology, educational studies, discourse analysis, naturalized epistemology, and the cognitive sciences. The main objective of the volume is to explore how particular cognitive predispositions and cultural representations both shape and distort the public debate about scientific controversies, the teaching and learning of science, and the development of science itself. The theoretical background of the articles in the volume integrates C. P. Snow's concept of the two cultures (science and the humanities) and Jerome Bruner's confrontation between narrative and logico-scientific modes of thinking (i.e., the cognitive and the evolutionary approaches to human cognition).

Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After Fifty

Author : Lisa Niver
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1637587821
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After Fifty written by Lisa Niver and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newlywed Niver was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented out her condo, and was traveling around Asia. To the outside world, Niver was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. In private, she was keeping a dark secret. But, when she found herself lying on a sidewalk in Thailand, looking up at the sky in severe pain, she knew things had to change. At age forty-seven, Niver found the courage to set course on a new life. Feeling like a failure, pushing fifty, and moving home to her parents’ house to start again from scratch, Niver started taking one tiny “brave-ish” step at a time to take her life far away from the old one and into the adventurous world of travel writing. These small hurdles led to the challenge of trying fifty new things before turning fifty. From diving into shipwrecks, swimming with sharks, bobsledding at 3 Gs, to indulging in wild escapades, Niver found herself traversing the world on a journey of reinvention, personal growth, and discovering what it actually means to be “brave.” While Brave-ish chronicles Niver’s inspiring expeditions to distant corners of the world including Myanmar, Cuba, Morocco, Kenya and Mongolia this is more than a travelogue. Niver’s story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of perseverance. Brave-ish inspires readers to dream big, take risks, and embrace the unknown to create a life filled with wonder and excitement, even when courage seems elusive.

The Sloth Lemur's Song

Author : Alison Richard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226829499
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Sloth Lemur's Song written by Alison Richard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet, it has been home to a spectacular parade of animals, from giant flightless birds and giant tortoises on the ground to agile lemurs leaping through the treetops. Some species live on; many have vanished in the distant or recent past. Over vast stretches of time, Madagascar’s forests have expanded and contracted in response to shifting climates, and the hand of people is clear in changes during the last thousand years or so. Today, Madagascar is a microcosm of global trends. What happens there in the decades ahead can, perhaps, suggest ways to help turn the tide on the environmental crisis now sweeping the world. The Sloth Lemur’s Song is a far-reaching account of Madagascar’s past and present, led by an expert guide who has immersed herself in research and conservation activities with village communities on the island for nearly fifty years. Alison Richard accompanies the reader on a journey through space and time—from Madagascar’s ancient origins as a landlocked region of Gondwana and its emergence as an island to the modern-day developments that make the survival of its array of plants and animals increasingly uncertain. Weaving together scientific evidence with Richard’s own experiences and exploring the power of stories to shape our understanding of events, this book captures the magic as well as the tensions that swirl around this island nation.

Kilimanjaro

Author : Audrey Salkeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kilimanjaro written by Audrey Salkeld and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an exploration of this majestic African icon that is both panoramic in scope and intimate in detail, "Kilimanjaro: Journey to the Roof of Africa" is the companion book to mountaineer and award-winning filmmaker David Breashears's major new IMAX( release. 150 full-color photos and IMAX images.