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Author : Mike Tomkies
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Wing and Wild Water written by Mike Tomkies and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1987 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramboro Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787216008976
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book On Wings and Wild Water written by Ramboro Books and published by . This book was released on 1999-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Tomkies
Publisher : Ulverscroft Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9780708920350
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)
Download or read book On Wing and Wild Water written by Mike Tomkies and published by Ulverscroft Large Print. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, who lives in a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, describes the secret lives of the black-throated diver, peregrine falcon, and golden eagle
Author : Mike Tomkies
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 1788854497
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book A Last Wild Place written by Mike Tomkies and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mike Tomkies moved to a remote cottage on the shores of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland, he found a place which was to provide him with the most profound wilderness experience of his life. Accessible only by boat, the cottage he renamed ‘Wildernesse’ was to be his home for many years, which he shared with his beloved German Shepherd, Moobli. Centred on different landscape elements – loch, woodlands and mountains –Tomkies describes the whole cycle of nature through the seasons in a harsh and testing environment of unrivalled beauty. Vivid colours and sounds fill the pages – exotic wild orchids, the roar of rutting stags, the territorial movements of foxes, otters and badgers, an oak tree being torn apart by hurricane-force gales. Nothing escapes his penetrating eye. His extraordinary insights into the wildlife that shared his otherwise empty territory were not gained without perseverance in the face of perilous hazards, and the difficulties and challenges of life in the wilderness are a key part of this remarkable book.
Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bulletin is a continuation of the work on the life histories of North American birds from Bulletins 107,113, 121, and 126. The same general plan has been followed and the same sources of information have been utilized. This bulletin covers the Order Anseres (Anseriformes) ... the ducks, geese and swans.
Author : Mike Tomkies
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 1788854535
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Between Earth and Paradise written by Mike Tomkies and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One man’s search for peace and beauty in an increasingly frenetic world has never read so well or so evocatively.” —Eifion Rees, Shooting Times & Country Magazine After giving up a hectic life as a journalist in Europe and Hollywood in the late 1960s to return to his boyhood love of nature, Mike Tomkies moved to Eilean Shona, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. There he rebuilt an abandoned croft house and began a new way of life observing nature. He tracked foxes and stags, made friends with seals, and taught an injured sparrow-hawk to hunt for itself. It was the indomitable spirit of this tiny bird that taught Tomkies what it takes for any of us to be truly free. Whether he was fishing, growing his own food, or battling through stormy seas in a tiny boat, he learned that he could survive in the harsh environment. This is the astonishing story of daring to take the first step away from urban routines and embracing a harsh yet immensely rewarding way of life which, in turn, led Tomkies to an even more remote location and inspired an acclaimed series of books on various animals and the challenges and joys of living in remote places. “The awesome extent of his struggle to build an uncomfortable but self-supporting writer’s life alone in an isolated crofter’s cottage is vividly and lyrically described.” —Sunday Express “A treasure house of outdoor knowledge . . . It should be read slowly to fully appreciate its value.” —Rennie McOwan, Scots Magazine
Author : United States National Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : chris holland
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0956156606
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (561 download)
Download or read book I love my World written by chris holland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for parents, outdoor educators, play rangers, forest school leaders and teachers, 'I Love My World' is full of practical ideas which can be used to rekindle the naturally playful spirit and develop a deep connection with nature from an early age.
Author : Derek Bousé
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205847
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Wildlife Films written by Derek Bousé and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world—particularly wild animals. The television fare offered nightly by national and cable networks such as PBS and the Discovery Channel provides millions of viewers with their only experience of the wilderness and its inhabitants. The very films that so many viewers take as accurate portrayals of wildlife, however, have evolved primarily as a form of entertainment, following the established codes and conventions of narrative exposition. The result has been not the representation of nature, but its wholesale reconstruction and reconfiguration according to film and television conventions, audience expectations, and the demands of competition in the media marketplace. Wildlife Films traces the genealogy of the nature film, from its origins as the "animal locomotion" studies that mark the very beginnings of motion pictures themselves, to the founding of the Animal Planet cable channel that boasts "all animals, all the time." The narrative and thematic elements that unite wildlife films as a genre have their roots not in the documentary film tradition, but in the older traditions of oral and written animal fables as reflections of human society. Derek Bousé contends that classic wildlife films often portray animal protagonists living in families modeled on an ideal of the human nuclear family and working in communities that resemble an ideal of bucolic human society. In these stories—presented as documentaries—animals are motivated by human emotions and conduct relationships according to human customs. This imposition of culturally satisfying narrative patterns upon the lives of animals has not only led to the misrepresentation of the natural world; it has promoted the notion that our values, our moral vision, our models of society and family structure derive from nature, rather than being cultural formations.
Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486254227
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copious details on behavior, plumage, nesting and migratory habits, field marks, much more.
Author : Ruth Tingay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801458145
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Eagle Watchers written by Ruth Tingay and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eagles have fascinated humans for millennia. For some, the glimpse of a distant eagle instantly becomes a treasured lifelong memory. Others may never encounter a wild eagle in their lifetime. This book was written by people who have dedicated years to the study of eagles, to provide an insider's view for all readers, but especially those who have never been up close and personal with these magnificent yet often misunderstood creatures. In their stories, twenty-nine leading eagle researchers share their remarkable field experiences, providing personal narratives that don't feature in their scientific publications. They tell of their fear at being stalked by grizzly bears, their surprise at being followed by the secret police, their embarrassment when accidentally firing mortar rockets over a school gymnasium, and their sense of awe at tracking eagles via satellite. The reader experiences the cultural shock of being guest of honor at a circumcision ceremony, the absurdity of sharing an aquatic car with the Khmer Rouge, and the sense of foreboding at being press-ganged into a frenzied tribal death march through the jungle. The Eagle Watchers covers twenty-four species on six continents, from well known (bald eagle; golden eagle), to obscure (black-and-chestnut eagle; New Guinea harpy eagle), and from common (African fish eagle) to critically endangered (Philippine eagle; Madagascar fish eagle). The diverse experiences vividly described in this book reveal the passion, dedication, and sense of adventure shared by those who study these majestic birds and strive for their conservation. Featuring stunning color photographs of the eagles, information on raptor conservation, a global list of all eagle species with ranges and conservation status, and a color map of the sites visited in the book, The Eagle Watchers will appeal to birders, conservationists, and adventure travelers alike. To further support the conservation programs described in this book, all royalties are being donated to two leading nonprofit organizations for raptor conservation training and fieldwork: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Intern Program and the National Birds of Prey Trust.
Author : Jack Drummond
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 0748119620
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Storm written by Jack Drummond and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the small town of Melville is caught in a freak storm, its inhabitants must do everything they can to survive. But with a ruthless eco-terrorist at large, and no chance of rescue from the outside world, the townsfolk are on their own, facing one of the greatest environmental threats the world has ever seen... Dramatic, powerful and bursting with adventure, Storm is an un-putdown-able thriller.
Author : Emma Ford
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428993010
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Falconry. written by Emma Ford and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Life Histories of North American [birds].: Wild fowl written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin Hutchins
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262581469
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Cognition in the Wild written by Edwin Hutchins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-08-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation—its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships. The result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory—"in the wild." Hutchins examines a set of phenomena that have fallen in the cracks between the established disciplines of psychology and anthropology, bringing to light a new set of relationships between culture and cognition. The standard view is that culture affects the cognition of individuals. Hutchins argues instead that cultural activity systems have cognitive properties of their own that are different from the cognitive properties of the individuals who participate in them. Each action for bringing a large naval vessel into port, for example, is informed by culture: the navigation team can be seen as a cognitive and computational system. Introducing Navy life and work on the bridge, Hutchins makes a clear distinction between the cognitive properties of an individual and the cognitive properties of a system. In striking contrast to the usual laboratory tasks of research in cognitive science, he applies the principal metaphor of cognitive science—cognition as computation (adopting David Marr's paradigm)—to the navigation task. After comparing modern Western navigation with the method practiced in Micronesia, Hutchins explores the computational and cognitive properties of systems that are larger than an individual. He then turns to an analysis of learning or change in the organization of cognitive systems at several scales. Hutchins's conclusion illustrates the costs of ignoring the cultural nature of cognition, pointing to the ways in which contemporary cognitive science can be transformed by new meanings and interpretations. A Bradford Book
Author : James Macdonald Lockhart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647061X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Raptor written by James Macdonald Lockhart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This illuminating book serves as homage to a brilliant naturalist and extraordinary birds. If you loved H Is for Hawk, put this next on your reading list.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockhart’s stunning debut is a quest of beak, talon, wing, and sky. On its surface, Raptor is a journey across the British Isles in search of fifteen species of birds of prey, but as Lockhart seeks out these elusive predators, his quest becomes so much more: an incomparably elegant elegy on the beauty of the British landscape and, through the birds, a journey toward understanding an awesome power at the heart of the natural world—a power that is majestic and frightening in its strength, but also fragile. Linking his journey to that of his muse—nineteenth-century Scottish naturalist and artist William MacGillivray—Lockhart shares his own encounters with raptors ranging from the scarce osprey to the successfully reintroduced red kite, a species once protected by medieval royal statute, revealing with poetic immediacy the extraordinary behaviors of these birds and the extreme environments they call home. Creatures both worshipped and reviled, raptors have a talon-hold on the human heart and imagination. With his book, Lockhart unravels these complicated ties in a work by turns reverent and euphoric—an interweaving of history, travel, and nature writing at its best. A hymn to wanderers, to the land and to the sky, and especially to the birds, Raptor soars. “Lockhart’s soaring debut is a perfect synthesis of travel writing and natural history.” —Financial Times
