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Starlings Laughing

Author : June Vendall Clark
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147352556X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Starlings Laughing written by June Vendall Clark and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starlings Laughing is a vivid memoir of life during the waning phase of colonial Africa. June Vendall Clark came to love passionately the wildlife, people and land of Southern Africa during the forty-three years she spent there. Living with her philandering husband, Robert Kay, on Far Lamorna, a farm in the Rhodesian bush, June surrounded herself with animals, befriended the local Africans and steeped herself in tribal legends. Despite the hardships of farm life and a stormy marriage, the magical quality of the land itself, reflected in the beauty of the changing seasons and in the wild animals, gave her a sense of purpose and belonging. On a whim, Robert decreed the move to the remote Okavango delta on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Shaku Zulu, a converted army surplus amphibious transporter, made an eccentric but practical home and for eight years they organised safaris, hunted crocodiles for a living and learned the practical lessons of survival in the wild. June became foster mother to lion cubs and other orphan animals, including a serval kitten, a jackal and a buffalo calf – ‘all of which either died or bit people’. It was an enthralling but difficult existence. On top of endless financial problems, there were tropical diseases, terrifying encounters with killer lions and crocodiles and the final disintegration of the marriage to contend with. But then Robert and June found common cause in a battle to curb the random slaughter of wild animals, mostly by visiting ‘sportsmen’. Decades in advance of today’s concern for conservation, they embarked on a campaign to persuade local hunting tribes to create the Moremi Wildlife Reserve. This, however, is not just another animal book. Beautifully written, in the tradition of Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa and Elspeth Huxley’s The Flame Trees of Thika, Starlings Laughing is the richly rewarding chronicle of a courageous woman’s extraordinary times, told with honesty and humour.

Starlings

Author : Amanda Linsmeier
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 059357236X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Starlings written by Amanda Linsmeier and published by Ember. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of her father's death, a teen girl discovers a side of her family she didn't know existed, and is pulled into a dark—and ancient—bargain she is next in line to fulfill. A dark YA fantasy debut perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Small Favors. Kit’s father always told her he had no family, but his sudden death revealed the truth. Now Kit has a grandmother she never knew she had—Agatha Starling—and an invitation to visit her father’s hometown, Rosemont. And Rosemont is picture perfect: the famed eternal roses bloom all year, downtown is straight out of the 1950s . . . there’s even a cute guy to show Kit around. The longer Kit’s there, though, the stranger it all feels. The Starling family is revered, but there’s something off about how the Starling women seem to be at the center of the all the town’s important history. And as welcoming as the locals are, Kit can’t shake the feeling that they're hiding something from her. Agatha is so happy to finally meet her only granddaughter, and the town is truly charming, but Kit can’t help wondering, if everything is so great in Rosemont, why did her father leave? And why does it seem like he never wanted her to find it?

The Duty of Delight

Author : Dorothy Day
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0307888843
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Duty of Delight written by Dorothy Day and published by Image. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost fifty years, through her tireless service to the poor and her courageous witness for peace, Dorothy Day offered an example of the gospel in action. Now the publication of her diaries, previously sealed for twenty-five years after her death, offers a uniquely intimate portrait of her struggles and concerns. Beginning in 1934 and ending in 1980, these diaries reflect her response to the vast changes in America, the Church, and the wider world. Day experienced most of the great social movements of her time but, as these diaries reveal, even while she labored for a transformed world, she simultaneously remained grounded in everyday human life: the demands of her extended Catholic worker family; her struggles to be more patient and charitable; the discipline of prayer and worship that structured her days; her efforts to find God in all the tasks and encounters of daily life. A story of faithful striving for holiness and the radical transformation of the world, Day’s life challenges readers to imagine what it would be like to live as if the gospels were true.

At Home in the Okavango

Author : Catie Gressier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782387749
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book At Home in the Okavango written by Catie Gressier and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic portrayal of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natural and social environments of the region. In response to the insecurity of their position as a European-descended minority in a postcolonial African state, Gressier argues that white Batswana have developed cultural values and practices that have allowed them to attain high levels of belonging. Adventure is common for this frontier community, and the book follows their safari lifestyles as they construct and perform localized identities in their interactions with dangerous wildlife, the broader African community, and the global elite via their work in the nature-tourism industry.

Verde amargo | Bitter Green

Author : Martin Corless-Smith
Publisher : Buenos Aires Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9878470466
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Verde amargo | Bitter Green written by Martin Corless-Smith and published by Buenos Aires Poetry. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Este libro ofrece el caso de estudio perfecto para explorar algo que me parece crucial para la poesía contemporánea: la relación del sinsentido con la belleza del lenguaje, con la belleza descrita provisionalmente como impresiones sensoriales, emocionales, intelectuales o imaginativas, fuertes y positivas, ya sea por sí sola o en alguna de estas combinaciones. Hace tiempo que pienso que lo indecible también debe participar de alguna manera en esta relación. Lo que plantea el tema de la relación entre el sinsentido y lo indecible. ¿Es el sinsentido un intento valiente de articular lo indecible? ¿O es una especie de juego de manos que nos permite vislumbrarlo? Bitter Green está lleno de ejemplos perfectos de bello sinsentido, como los cuatro versos que abren una de sus páginas: “Un alcatraz que atraviesa el óleo no puede / y un pardillo sin siquiera un canto / el invierno salda las cuentas todas / el agua sin cauce sobre la tierra”. "This offers the perfect case study for exploring something that I feel is crucial to contemporary poetry—the relationship of nonsense to beauty in language, particularly written language, with beauty provisionally described as strong and positive sensual, emotional, intellectual, or imaginative impressions, either alone or in some combination. I’ve long thought that the unsayable must somehow also be involved in this relationship. Which raises the question of the relationship between nonsense and the unsayable. Is nonsense a valiant attempt to articulate the unsayable? Or is it a kind of sleight of hand that allows us to catch a glimpse of it? Bitter Green is full of perfect examples of beautiful nonsense, such as the four lines that open one page: “A gannet thru the oil cannot / and a linnet sans a song / the winter is of every count / the water without ground.” - COLE SWENSEN

Looking for Mrs Livingstone

Author : Julie Davidson
Publisher : Saint Andrew Press
ISBN 13 : 0861537637
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Mrs Livingstone written by Julie Davidson and published by Saint Andrew Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the enthralling and acclaimed story of an extraordinary and courageous woman. Her bravery, stoicism and African upbringing were critical to the career of her husband, world-renowned explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. Evocative and beautifully written.

Ornithological Biography Or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America (etc.)

Author : John-James Audubon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Ornithological Biography Or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America (etc.) written by John-James Audubon and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Birds

Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031625360X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Birds written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock...continually provokes both pity and terror." --The Observer (UK) A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verità' promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; and a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd . . .

The Secret Language of Birds

Author : Lynne Kelly
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 1524770272
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Language of Birds written by Lynne Kelly and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Song for a Whale comes a poignant and heartwarming tale about a girl who discovers a pair of endangered birds about to lay eggs in the marshes of her summer camp...and the secret plan she hatches to help them. Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that’s impossible—Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven’t nested in Texas for over a hundred years. When Nina reports the sighting to wildlife officials, more questions arise. Experts track all the endangered birds, but they can’t identify the female bird that Nina found. Who is she, and where did she come from? With the help of some fellow campers, Nina sets out to discover who the mystery bird really is. As she gets closer to the truth, will she find a flock of her own? This instant classic captures the coming-of-age moment of learning to spread your wings in a way you'll never forget.

Wizard's First Rule

Author : Terry Goodkind
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795330766
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Wizard's First Rule written by Terry Goodkind and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring” debut novel in the Sword of Truth epic fantasy series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author (Kirkus). Terry Goodkind’s debut novel, Wizard’s First Rule, was a phenomenon from the moment it was first published by Tor Books in 1994. In it, readers are drawn into the magical New World, where ordinary Westland forest guide Richard Cypher accepts his extraordinary destiny. As a Seeker of Truth, Richard is the only one who can stop the tyrannical wizard Darken Rahl from seizing the all-powerful Boxes of Orden. When the beautiful and mysterious Kahlan Amnell appears in Richard's forest seeking help, his humble world is turned on its head. After proving that he can wield the Sword of Truth, Richard knows that a confrontation with Darken Rahl looms. But Kahlan beseeches him to reach beyond his sword and invoke his inner nobility in order to face the dangerous challenges ahead.

The Hat That Killed a Billion Birds

Author : Arthur G. Sharp
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476651701
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Hat That Killed a Billion Birds written by Arthur G. Sharp and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes--and sometimes with the birds themselves. As many as 300 million birds per year were killed for this fashionable enterprise, causing the extinction of some entire species and the endangerment of others. Lawmakers and bird aficionados were slow to react to the effects of this practice, which went on almost unabated for a quarter of a century. Then, noted naturalists like George Bird Grinnell, William T. Hornaday, and President Theodore Roosevelt, who recognized the economic benefits birds provided, banded together to pass meaningful legislation to protect them and to curb the production of murderous millinery. This book explores the troubled history of millinery and its complicated relationship to birds and conservation. It explores why it took so long for the slaughter to end and how the efforts of individuals and groups brought about change.

Birds in Sanskrit Literature

Author : K. N. Dave
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120818422
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Birds in Sanskrit Literature written by K. N. Dave and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2005 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his monumental research in ancient sanskrit literature the author has restored gaps in lexicons and removed doubts in the later sanskrit works about the identity of a very large number of birds of the Indian sub-continent. The ancient sages of India were great lovers of nature with keen powers of observation and an extraordinary sensitivity about aninal behaviour. The Vedas Puranas, Epics and Samhitas are full of descriptions of birds, animals and plants but the exact identification of names had got lost or confounded over the centuries.

Marine Birds of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico: Charadrillformes

Author : Roger B. Clapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Marine Birds of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico: Charadrillformes written by Roger B. Clapp and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bird Notes

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Bird Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Birds of the World

Author : Jason A. Mobley
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761477754
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Birds of the World written by Jason A. Mobley and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2008 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds of all imaginable sizes, shapes, colors, and patterns are nearly everywhere we might care to look, expressing a bewildering array of behaviors and strategies for successful living among all manner of challenges to survival.

Avian Biology

Author : Donald S. Farner
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483269434
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Avian Biology written by Donald S. Farner and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avian Biology, Volume III is a collection of articles that deals with the biology of birds such as their peripheral endocrine glands and reproductive system. One paper describes the avian reproductive system where physiological mechanisms that regulate gametogenesis get synchronized from stimuli in the environment, thus ensuring that the young are born at the appropriate season. Another paper correlates the morphology of the pituitary cells with the functions of the pituitary from physiological and chemical analyses. A couple of papers describes the peripheral endocrine glands and the process of neuroendocrinology that includes detailed analyses of the neurosecretory system anatomy and the ependymal function in the median eminence composed of the anterior and posterior divisions. One author describes the structure and refraction of avian vision, as well as the probable determination of visual pigments in the eye cones through in situ microspectrophotometry. The book then analyzes bird behavior through functional groups of bird activities. Bird enthusiasts, zoologists, and avian biologists will find this book interesting and informative.

Kookaburra

Author : Sarah Legge
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 9780643090637
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Kookaburra written by Sarah Legge and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2004 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kookaburras are among the largest kingfishers in the world. They can live in a wide variety of habitats, and have adapted to living around humans relatively well. While they may be a familiar icon, Sarah Legge also explains why this laughing king of the bush is a much more complex bird than generally assumed.