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Author : Dolf Wyllarde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Tropical Tales, and Others written by Dolf Wyllarde and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raouf Mama
Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902283210
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Barefoot Book of Tropical Tales written by Raouf Mama and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich, vibrant and witty illustrations highlight a totally tropical collection of traditional folktales from the Caribbean, South-East Asia, and Africa.
Author : Charles M. Peters
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235526
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Managing the Wild written by Charles M. Peters and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters’s thirty†‘five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, “Local people know a lot about managing tropical forests, and they are much better at it than we are.” With the aim of showing policy makers, conservation advocates, and others the potential benefits of giving communities a more prominent conservation role, Peters offers readers fascinating backstories of positive forest interactions. He provides examples such as the Kenyah Dayak people of Indonesia, who manage subsistence orchards and are perhaps the world’s most gifted foresters, and communities in Mexico that sustainably harvest agave for mescal and demonstrate a near†‘heroic commitment to good practices. No forest is pristine, and Peters’s work shows that communities have been doing skillful, subtle forest management throughout the tropics for several hundred years.
Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087872339
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (723 download)
Download or read book A Tropical Frontier written by Tim Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning novels, The Indian Fighter and The Cow Hunters (Florida Historical Society, Patrick D. Smith Award), this is the First novel in the "Tropical Frontier" series.
Author : Nick Joaquin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524704547
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic written by Nick Joaquin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the centennial of his birth, the first-ever U.S. publication of Philippine writer Nick Joaquin’s seminal works, with a foreword by PEN/Open Book Award–winner Gina Apostol A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained little-known outside his home country despite writing in English. Set amid the ruins of Manila devastated by World War II, his stories are steeped in the post-colonial anguish and hopes of his era and resonate with the ironic perspectives on colonial history of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. His work meditates on the questions and challenges of the Filipino individual’s new freedom after a long history of colonialism, exploring folklore, centuries-old Catholic rites, the Spanish colonial past, magical realism, and baroque splendor and excess. This collection features his best-known story, “The Woman Who Had Two Navels,” centered on Philippine emigrants living in Hong Kong and later expanded into a novel, the much-anthologized stories “May Day Eve” and “The Summer Solstice” and a canonic play, A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino. As Penguin Classics previously launched his countryman Jose Rizal to a wide audience, now Joaquin will find new readers with the first American collection of his work. Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading by Vicente L. Rafael For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Charlson Ong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Tropical Winter's Tale and Other Stories written by Charlson Ong and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen Agler
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421427230
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Under the Big Tree written by Ellen Agler and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful stories of the debilitating effects of neglected tropical diseases throughout the world, highlighting the successes and challenges of those fighting to eliminate them. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion of the world's poorest people. More than 170,000 people die from NTDs each year, and many more suffer from blindness, disability, disfigurement, cognitive impairment, and stunted growth. Yet NTDs are treatable and preventable, and the annual cost of treatment is incredibly low. In Under the Big Tree, public health leader Ellen Agler and award-winning writer Mojie Crigler tell the moving stories of those struggling with these diseases and the life-saving work that can be—and has been—done to combat NTDs. They introduce readers to people from all walks of life—from car washers in Lake Victoria and surgeons on motorbikes to under-resourced local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and Big Pharma scientists—as they chronicle what has been called the largest public health program in the world. On the one hand, the solutions are simple: deliver medication to people who need it and leverage local systems to offer prevention, treatment, and education. On the other hand, solutions are complex: navigating local and national politics, delivering treatment to some of the most remote, vulnerable communities, and coordinating global and local donors, international NGOs, thousands of health workers, and millions of citizens. Drawing on interviews with major players in the NTD world who share their cutting-edge research and frontline experiences, Under the Big Tree is a moving introduction to the science, the tactics, and the partnerships working to address these terrible diseases that affect the most vulnerable people in the world. With a foreword by Bill Gates, this book fascinates, inspires, and gives readers concrete steps for further engagement.
Author : Alexander Frater
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030779525X
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Tales from the Torrid Zone written by Alexander Frater and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Frater was born to a family of Scottish expatriates on the tiny island of Irikiki in the South Seas. Following his dreams of being a writer, Frater left home, but the call of the tropics compelled him to return again and again. Join him as he dines with the Queen of Tonga; makes his way through two civil wars; visits the spots where surfing and bungee jumping originated; and expresses his love for the region where he is at once a tourist, explorer, adventurer, and native son. From Tahiti to Thailand, Mexico to Mozambique, Frater gives us a richly described, endlessly surprising picture of this diverse, feverish, languorously beautiful world.
Author : Doreen Baingana
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0767925106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Tropical Fish written by Doreen Baingana and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin’s dictatorship. Three of the eight chapters are told from the point of view of Christine’s two older sisters, Patti, a born-again Christian who finds herself starving at her boarding school, and Rosa, a free spirit who tries to “magically” seduce one of her teachers. But the star of Tropical Fish is Christine, whom we accompany from her first wobbly steps in high heels, to her encounters with the first-world conveniences and alienation of America, to her return home to Uganda. As the Mugishas cope with Uganda’s collapsing infrastructure, they also contend with the universal themes of family cohesion, sex and relationships, disease, betrayal, and spirituality. Anyone dipping into Baingana’s incandescent, widely acclaimed novel will enjoy their immersion in the world of this talented newcomer. *Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in the Africa region *Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Award Series in Short Fiction *Winner of the Washington Writing Prize for Short Fiction *Finalist for the Caine Prize in African Writing
Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429919817
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Tropical Secrets written by Margarita Engle and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba. As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away . . .
Author : John Murray
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060509295
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies written by John Murray and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These vivid and compelling tales, many set in Africa and Asia, are about immigrants and others facing change and dislocation. The science is never pedantic; indeed the language of biology and natural history is used to great lyrical effect. The stories are accomplished and seasoned, remarkably so given that this is the author’s first book. Murray is adept at holding together a complex narrative and creating characters who reach out emotionally to the reader upon first meeting. Global in scope, classical in form, evocative of place, and deeply emotional, this collection marks the beginning of what promises to be an illustrious career.
Author : Mary Smathers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997855722
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)
Download or read book In This Land of Plenty written by Mary Smathers and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neal Rabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997046816
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (468 download)
Download or read book 23 Degrees South written by Neal Rabin and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23 Degrees South follows two 23 year-old childhood pals, Hart and Simon, on a twisting, unexpected, adventure of force-fed, self-discovery. The story departs from the tennis courts of Southern California traveling to the back streets of Sao Paulo, through the treacherous jungles of Brazil, then back again. Meet an eclectic collection of characters from a Capoeira Master, to a Jesuit Priest, and a geriatric Nazi, who all weave their way in, out, and around the path of our two heroes.
Author : Jarvis
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 153620546X
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Tropical Terry written by Jarvis and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From author-illustrator Jarvis comes a buoyant underwater tale about a little blue fish who learns that being dazzling isn’t what makes you special. Coral Reef City is home to the most brilliant tropical fish in the ocean. Sparkling and multicolored, they swim around and around, showing off. And then there’s Terry. Small, blue, and ordinary, Terry spends his days playing hiding games with his friends and wishing the tropical fish would play with him, too. So with the help of his friends, Terry fashions a flashy, dazzling costume and transforms into Tropical Terry. But life as the center of attention isn’t quite everything Terry dreamed it would be — especially once Eddie the Eel shows up, hungry for dinner. In a bright, cheerful story, Jarvis uses his vibrant art and heartwarming wit to prove that sometimes the things you thought made you unremarkable are actually the most special qualities of all.
Author : S.R. Kovo N'Sonde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783791368665
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)
Download or read book Congo Tales written by S.R. Kovo N'Sonde and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Congo Basin in Central Africa harbors approximately one quarter of the world's rainforests. Second in size only to that of the Amazon, the heart of this rainforest is populated by communities whose lives are vastly different from much of the rest of the world. This stunning photo series is part of the Tales of Us project, which sets out to demonstrate that the powerful but fragile ecosystems and the mythologies of the peoples who call them home are inextricably linked. In this book, local Congolese living in the Mbomo District staged and enacted the oral history of the Congo for fine art photographer Pieter Henket under the canopy of the ancient rainforest from which these stories sprang." --Page 4 of cover.
Author : Rudolfo A. Anaya
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137384
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Man who Could Fly and Other Stories written by Rudolfo A. Anaya and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a period of thirty years, a collection of eighteen short stories includes "Silence of the Llano,' "In search of Epifano," and "Children of the Desert."
Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393308808
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
