The Devil's Cormorant

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Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
ISBN 13 : 1611684749
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis The Devil's Cormorant by : Richard J. King

Download or read book The Devil's Cormorant written by Richard J. King and published by University of New Hampshire Press. This book was released on 2013-09-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The DevilÕs Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the worldÕs most misunderstood waterfowl.

Country Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Citizen Bird

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Citizen Bird by : Mabel Osgood Wright

Download or read book Citizen Bird written by Mabel Osgood Wright and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic and widely influential work brings together the talents of the greatest American ornithologist of his generation (Coues), a pioneering nature writer/editor/ornithologist (Wright), and a young artist whose contribution to the American tradition of bird illustration proved to be second only to Audubon's own (Fuertes); this book features the first substantial body of his work. Directed at the general public, especially children, and written in an entertaining and fanciful fiction style, the work imparts solid scientific knowledge while inculcating conservation values. It exemplifies the extensive literature of popular yet scientifically-grounded ornithology which nurtured the national passion for birds in this era, thereby fostering some of conservationism's most vital and widespread grass roots. Women were particularly well-represented in this literature, often--like Wright--combining literary gifts with serious scientific knowledge (Wright was elected to membership in the American Ornithologists' Union) to bridge the widening gap between professional science and amateur nature-study, and often--as in this work--confirming contemporary expectations of gender roles by directing their writings particularly toward children.

The Girl from Station X

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Publisher : Union Books
ISBN 13 : 1908526351
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis The Girl from Station X by : Elisa Segrave

Download or read book The Girl from Station X written by Elisa Segrave and published by Union Books. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A typical day on the 4 to 12 shift, as I am at present, so that the sheer agony of it may be placed on record for me to look back on, perhaps one day in the far distant future when this period may be seen like a nightmare and be mercifully semi-observed in oblivion so that I shall remember only the glory of my position as the first and only woman on the watch and holding the most responsible position of any woman in the Hut.' October 12th 1942. When Elisa Segrave uncovered a cache of wartime diaries written by her mother, she had no idea that she would be brought face to face with a character utterly different from the troubled woman who had become so reliant on her. Now, on the pages before her, Segrave encountered Anne Hamilton-Grace, a young woman who had grown up in immense privilege and luxury but who leapt at the first opportunity to join the war effort. Through determination she excelled in the world of secret intelligence. Leaving the world of finishing school and hunt balls behind her, Anne’s journey took her to Hut 3 at Bletchley Park, to Bomber Command in Grantham and, finally, to a newly liberated Germany. In The Girl From Station X, Segrave opens the pages of her mother’s diaries to us and recreates her life both before and after the war. At once a vivid recreation of a dramatic era and a powerful portrait of a mother-daughter relationship, this is an original and affecting work about what it means to come to know someone through their writing; about how Anne unwittingly found a way to link her life with her daughter’s decades after they had given up trying to communicate.

The Continuity Girl

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Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911586998
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis The Continuity Girl by : Patrick Kincaid

Download or read book The Continuity Girl written by Patrick Kincaid and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Continuity Girl is centred on the supposed discovery of an uncut print of Billy Wilder’s celebrated film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). It begins in the run up to 2014’s Scottish independence referendum, when Gemma MacDonald, a London-based Film Studies lecturer of Scottish heritage, is tasked with presenting the new print at a festival screening in Inverness. She seeks out April Korzeniowski, the movie’s Californian continuity supervisor (NB—in reality, this role fell to Elaine Schreyeck, whose remarkable career deserves another and quite different book). We then switch to 1969 and learn of the affair that develops between April and a young English scientist, Jim Outhwaite. Jim is a member of the Loch Ness Research Group, and thus a dedicated seeker of evidence for the Loch Ness monster. But in life, as in a Billy Wilder movie, nothing goes to plan and nobody is quite who they seem. While men are landing on the moon and the 1960s approaches its bitter, gloriously sound-tracked end, fault lines begin to appear between the director and his stars, between Jim and his colleagues (and their wives), and between lovers brought together by extreme circumstances. It’s a long wait for golden time to alight on Urquhart Castle, and when it does, the moment must be snatched before it’s gone...

The Nation

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Children's Friend

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Children's Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost in Ceylon: the Story of a Boy and Girl's Adventures in the Woods and the Wilds of the Lion King of Kandy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
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Book Synopsis Lost in Ceylon: the Story of a Boy and Girl's Adventures in the Woods and the Wilds of the Lion King of Kandy by : William Dalton (Miscellaneous Writer.)

Download or read book Lost in Ceylon: the Story of a Boy and Girl's Adventures in the Woods and the Wilds of the Lion King of Kandy written by William Dalton (Miscellaneous Writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Country Life Illustrated

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Youth's Companion

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth's Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harper's New Monthly Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis Harper's New Monthly Magazine by : Henry Mills Alden

Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.

Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091161X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China by : Michael Sullivan

Download or read book Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values on Chinese art and provides 364 illustrations, in color and black-and-white, to show the great range of artistic expression and the historical processes that occurred within various movements. A substantial biographical index of twentieth-century Chinese artists is a valuable addition to the text. Sullivan discusses artists and their work against China's background of oppression and relaxation, despair and hope. He expertly conveys the diverse and at times bizarre intertwining of Chinese cultural history and art during this century. Included are the intense debates between traditionalists and reformers, the creation of the first art schools, and the birth of the idea—shocking in ethnocentric China—that art is a world language that obliterates all frontiers. The scholarly traditions of classical Chinese painting, the belated discovery of Western modernism, the artistic upheaval under Communism, and China's rethinking of the very nature of art all have a place in Sullivan's fascinating history. Michael Sullivan has known many of the major figures in China's modern art movement of the 1930s and 1940s and has also gained the confidence of younger artists who rose to prominence following the 1979 "Peking Spring." This long-awaited book—richly documented and abundantly illustrated—is a capstone to Sullivan's work and will be enthusiastically welcomed by art lovers everywhere.

New York Journal of Romance, General Literature, Science and Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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The New Statesman

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Illustrated London News

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Suburban Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Suburban Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Suburban Life, the Countryside Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Suburban Life, the Countryside Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: