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Book Synopsis The Unfeathered Bird by : Katrina van Grouw
Download or read book The Unfeathered Bird written by Katrina van Grouw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more to a bird than simply feathers. And just because birds evolved from a single flying ancestor doesn't mean they are structurally the same. With 385 stunning drawings depicting 200 species, The Unfeathered bird is a richly illustrated book on bird anatomy that offers refreshingly original insights into what goes on beneath the feathered surface.
Book Synopsis The Feather Thief by : Kirk Wallace Johnson
Download or read book The Feather Thief written by Kirk Wallace Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Book Synopsis Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World by : Françoise Besson
Download or read book Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World written by Françoise Besson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature, philosophy, painting, cinema, ecology, history, palaeontology, geography, geopolitics, toponymy, law, religion and myth, invites people to an innovative reading of mountains: it reveals the close relationship existing between the shapes of the world and all forms of writing and, at the same time, it shows how the representations of the imagination may be instrumental in protecting the natural world. The story told by the landscape inscribes a broken line in the shapes of the world, tearing the landscape like a fragile page whenever historical and political events (wars, mining or deforestation) leave scars in the landscape; but writers' and artists' representations of mountains constitute a path to awareness as they are not only a painting of beauty, but an image of our link to nature and a warning as well. For centuries the image of the mountain has conveyed a symbolism telling the story of human thought, and this book shows to what extent literature and art play an essential part in our awareness of nature.
Book Synopsis The Riddle of the Jade Collar by : Hans Alric Vakker
Download or read book The Riddle of the Jade Collar written by Hans Alric Vakker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve cousins are transported to a distant world called Al Kiam. Their abilities can bring war or peace to the land, but first they have to get along. The twelve cousins fight about the old stone teapot Grandpapa brought back from the war in Iraq. Grandpapa says it may be magic; some of the cousins disagree while others believe his claim with all their hearts. While they go through the old ritual explained by Grandpapa, a swirl of light fills the room, followed by a wave of blackness. As the darkness changed to light, the twelve cousins realize they are in a different world: the world of Al Kiam. Whats more, each cousin has acquired a strange, unique power, the purpose of which is unknown to them. They soon learn they are surrounded by an ancient battle that threatens to tear the world of Al Kiam apartunless they do something about it. No matter how much these cousins may love each other, they dont always agree. Deciding what they must dofight the good fight or quickly find a way homecould tear them apart. With the fate of a world in their hands, however, the twelve cousins must learn to use their powers as one and solve the riddles of Al Kiam. By harnessing their newfound powers, they may become heroes.
Book Synopsis Speak, Bird, Speak Again by : Ibrahim Muhawi
Download or read book Speak, Bird, Speak Again written by Ibrahim Muhawi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Palestinian Arab folktales which reflect the culture and highlights the role of women in the society.
Book Synopsis Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann by : Various
Download or read book Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann written by Various and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity 'The Sandman'; Chamisso's influential black masterpiece 'Peter Schlemiel', where a man barters his own shadow; Kafka's chilling, disturbing satire 'In the Penal Colony'; the Dadaist surrealism of Kurt Schwitters' 'The Onion'; and Bachmann's modern fairy tale 'The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran'. Macabre, dreamlike and expressing deep unconscious fears, these stories are also spiked with unsettling humour, showing stylistic daring as well as giving insight into the darkest recesses of the human condition. Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing the notion of 'angst' and the stories' place in the context of German history. Translated, selected and edited with an introduction by Peter Wortsman
Book Synopsis The Soul and the Mysterious Un...Seen World by : Kathleen Lalani Mayfield
Download or read book The Soul and the Mysterious Un...Seen World written by Kathleen Lalani Mayfield and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Man Under the Hill by : Rick Kephart
Download or read book The Man Under the Hill written by Rick Kephart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy named Albert sees an explosion late one night, and later discovers that he has the power to put up an invisible shield around himself. He finds there are 5 other people who also saw the explosion, each receiving a unique power as a result. They also feel a tremendous need to rescue a man who is trapped under a hill somewhere. By combining their powers, they are able to send Albert to the hill, but it is in a place where everyone speaks in a strange language: Analin Huhhul. The language has a full grammar and vocabulary, so you can try to figure it out along with Albert, and see how long it will take for you to start being able to understand some of what the people of Huhhul are saying!
Book Synopsis A Miracle in Baghdad by : Sara Beth Simmons
Download or read book A Miracle in Baghdad written by Sara Beth Simmons and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kylie Jenkins loved the Lord and attended church regularly, she only wished her family felt the same way. So when she gets the opportunity to go on a mission trip to Baghdad, Iraq she jumps at the chance, praying for a miracle that her family would come to know the Lord like she did. Forty four days later, her body is found along the Tigris River which leads to a chain of events that changes the lives of everyone who knew her, including the FBI agents assigned to her murder investigation.
Book Synopsis Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the Magyars by : Jeremiah Curtin
Download or read book Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the Magyars written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by : Jeremiah Curtin
Download or read book Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents 32 tales are derived from sources in Russia and nearby regions. Here, you will find fascinating characters like talking animals, adventurous young men and maidens, wicked witches, spirits, and other magical creatures. The book starts with an informative introduction by an expert in Slavic cultures who highlights the anthropological significance of these enchanting tales.
Download or read book Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis HALLOWEEN COLLECTION TREAT by : Théophile Gautier
Download or read book HALLOWEEN COLLECTION TREAT written by Théophile Gautier and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 17628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: H. P. Lovecraft: The Tomb The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House Bram Stoker: Dracula The Dualists Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Mystery of Marie Rogêt The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Evil Eye Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo A Haunted Island Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla The Wyvern Mystery The Dead Sexton M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow E. F. Benson: The Terror by Night Wilkie Collins: The Dead Secret The Haunted Hotel Arthur Conan Doyle: The Beetle Hunter The Black Doctor Charles Dickens: The Signal-Man The aunted House Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Third Person Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw My Own True Ghost Story Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Markheim The Body-Snatcher Robert E. Howard: Beyond the Black River Devil in Iron People of the Dark Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: Dr. Greatrex's Engagement The Mysterious Occurrence in Piccadilly Frederick Marryat: The Phantom Ship The Were-Wolf James Malcolm Rymer: Sweeney Todd H. G. Wells: The Island of Doctor Moreau Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls H. H. Munro (Saki): The Wolves of Cernogratz Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Shadow in the Corner Fred M. White: Powers of Darkness The Doom of London Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Haunted and the Haunters E. T. A. Hoffmann: The Devil's Elixirs The Deserted House Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep Eleanor M. Ingram: The Thing from the Lake Marie Corelli: The Sorrows of Satan Thomas Reid ...
Download or read book Our Young People written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Merchants Record and Show Window written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Matthew Eberz Publisher :AuthorHouse ISBN 13 :1434367622 Total Pages :706 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (343 download)
Download or read book written by Matthew Eberz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Sam Call, now retired from the Army, has joined LNMB Investigations owned by his friend David Lytle. David was instrumental in helping Sam uncover the identity of an escaped German POW, solve a war crime that had remained hidden for 45 years, and also bring home a soldier missing since 1945. IdentityPoint, a public records company, is a major player in the relatively new world of computerized public records; providing the government and private companies with reports on an individual's data; data which revealed everything from the person's birth to their death, and everything in between. One corporate officer believes others in IdentityPoint have been illegally benefiting from a string of acquisitions and hires LNMB to go undercover to seek the financial data to prove her suspicions. Along with David's long-time associate Bob, a small, unassuming but extremely resourceful man, Sam is immersed in a mesmerizing world of data and computers and quickly discovers the immense power the company and the data have over the lives of typical citizens. While using the company's powerful reporting tools, Sam unknowingly alerts the F.B.I., and Sam once again finds himself the target of those who would wish to silence anything Sam has to say, as well as silencing Sam-permanently. Set in Georgia, British Virgin Islands, and Washington D.C., Very Public Data, explores the world of public records, secret organizations, world of personal identity systems and those that build them and those who abuse them. Very Public Data unveils both the positive and negative power of public data, and while this is a tale of corruption, murder, and deception, it is also a celebration of the love of a man and a woman, the unbreakable bond of soldiers, and the undying strength that honor brings to the human spirit.
