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Book Synopsis The Legend of the Maneater by : Arjan Singh
Download or read book The Legend of the Maneater written by Arjan Singh and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book By The Famed Conservationist Aims To Spread The Message That Wildlife, Particularly The Tiger And Other Large Predators Must Be Protected Far More Effectively Than At Present.
Download or read book Man-eater written by Harold Schechter and published by Little A. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the pursuit and trial of Alfred Packer, one of a crew of prospectors who, when his group became lost in the snow of the Rockies in 1873, turned to cannibalism.
Book Synopsis Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land by : Charles M. Skinner
Download or read book Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land written by Charles M. Skinner and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is unthinkingly said and often, that America is not old enough to have developed a legendary era, for such an era grows backward as a nation grows forward. No little of the charm of European travel is ascribed to the glamour that history and fable have flung around old churches, castles, and the favored haunts of tourists, and the Rhine and Hudson are frequently compared, to the prejudice of the latter, not because its scenery lacks in loveliness or grandeur, but that its beauty has not been humanized by love of chivalry or faerie, as that of the older stream has been. Yet the record of our country's progress is of deep import, and as time goes on the figures seen against the morning twilight of our history will rise to more commanding stature, and the mists of legend will invest them with a softness or glory that shall make reverence for them spontaneous and deep. Washington hurling the stone across the Potomac may live as the Siegfried of some Western saga, and Franklin invoking the lightnings may be the Loki of our mythology. The bibliography of American legends is slight, and these tales have been gathered from sources the most diverse: records, histories, newspapers, magazines, oral narrative—in every case reconstructed. The pursuit of them has been so long that a claim may be set forth for some measure of completeness. This edition contains several hundred myths and legends from all parts of the country. Excerpt from Contents: Rip Van Winkle Catskill Gnomes The Catskill Witch The Revenge Of Shandaken Condemned To The Noose Big Indian The Baker's Dozen The Devil's Dance-Chamber. The Culprit Fay Pokepsie Dunderberg Anthony's Nose Moodua Creek A Trapper's Ghastly Vengeance The Vanderdecken Of Tappan Zee The Galloping Hessian Storm Ship Of The Hudson Why Spuyten Duyvil Is So Named The Ramapo Salamander Chief Croton The Retreat From Mahopac Niagara The Deformed Of Zoar Horseheads Kayuta And Waneta The Drop Star The Prophet Of Palmyra A Villain's Cremation The Monster Mosquitoe The Green Picture The Nuns Of Carthage The Skull In The Wall The Haunted Mill ... and hundred more ...
Book Synopsis Myths and Legends from Our Own Land by : Charles M. Skinner
Download or read book Myths and Legends from Our Own Land written by Charles M. Skinner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and legends collected from all over the USA.
Book Synopsis New Insights Into the Novels of R.K. Narayan by : M. K. Bhatnagar
Download or read book New Insights Into the Novels of R.K. Narayan written by M. K. Bhatnagar and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.K. Narayan S Career As A Novelist And Short Story Writer Spans Almost Eight Decades From Swami And Friends (1935) To Grandmother S Tale (1992) Until His Death On 13 May 2001 At The Ripe Age Of 95. His Distinctive Sense Of Humour, His Trade Mark Irony, His Bemused, Knowing, Overseeing Perspective, His Rootedness In Religion And Family Values And His Inescapable Capturing Of The Essence Of Indian Sensibility All Have Been Looked At From A Refreshingly New Perspective, Hitherto Only Partly Touched Or Left Unexplored And Unattempted. New Insights Into The Guide, The Maneater Of Malgudi, A Tiger For Malgudi, Waiting For The Mahatma, The Dark Room Exploit Freshly-Forged Tools Of Critical Analysis Comparative, Structural, New Historical , Feminist, Bakhtinian, Post-Colonial And Socio-Cultural And Ethical.A Welcome Addition To The Extant Critical Scholarship On R.K. Narayan S Ouevre.A Lucid Discussion Of New Dimensions In Literary Theory Through Well-Argued, Illustrative Analysis Of Popular Texts.A Scholarly Elucidation Of The Sociology Of Hinduism As Reflected In Popular Fiction.An Indispensable Source-Book For Students, Researchers, Teachers, Scholars In Inter-Related Fields Like Literary Criticism, Theory Of Literature, Indian Philosophy, Customs And Thought-Patterns, Besides Social Anthropology And Sociology.
Book Synopsis The Man-Eater of Malgudi by : R. K. Narayan
Download or read book The Man-Eater of Malgudi written by R. K. Narayan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Nataraj, who earns his living as a printer in the little world of Malgudi, an imaginary town in South India. Nataraj and his close friends, a poet and a journalist, find their congenia l days disturbed when Vasu, a powerful taxidermist, moves in with his stuffed hyenas and pythons, and brings his dancing-women up the printer's private stairs. When Vasu, in search of larger game, threatens the life of a temple elephant that Natara j has befriended, complications ensue that are both laughable and tragic.
Book Synopsis Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by : David Quammen
Download or read book Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind written by David Quammen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rich detail and vivid anecdotes of adventure....A treasure trove of exotic fact and hard thinking." —New York Times Book Review For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above—so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem. Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo and The Tangled Tree examines the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia, of brown bears in the mountains of Romania, and of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East. In the poignant and troublesome ferocity of these embattled creatures, we recognize something primeval deep within us, something in danger of vanishing forever.
Book Synopsis BILLY ARJAN SINGH’S TIGER BOOK by : Arjan Singh
Download or read book BILLY ARJAN SINGH’S TIGER BOOK written by Arjan Singh and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arjan Singh (1917–2010) in his activities has spanned both eras of Hunting and Conservation. From his farm, Tiger Haven, in Uttar Pradesh, where he stayed from 1959 to 2010, he extensively studied the varied wildlife of the area, and reared and successfully returned to the wild, a tigress and two leopards. A spokesman for the tiger, he waged many a crusade against environmental destruction. In recognition of his field work, he was awarded the World Wildlife Fund Gold Medal in the year 1976.
Book Synopsis The Man-Eating Myth by : William Arens
Download or read book The Man-Eating Myth written by William Arens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1980-09-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.
Download or read book India Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Around the Hearth by : Kynpham Singh Nongkynrih
Download or read book Around the Hearth written by Kynpham Singh Nongkynrih and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Is Believed That The Only Way The Khasi People Could Learn Of God S Word Was By Passing On The Stories Of Their Forefathers. The Alphabet Of The Great Khasi Tribe Of North-East India Was Born As Late As In 1842, When Thomas Jones, A Welsh Presbyterian Missionary, Introduced The Roman Script To Form The Essentials Of The Khasi Written Word. But Long Before The White Man Came, The Khasis Knew Agriculture, Trade, Commerce And Industry. And They Were Also Masters Of Storytelling. Theirs Was A Society Of Great Wisdom And Civilized Conduct At A Time When Brute Force Held Sway. For Theirs Was A Culture That Worshipped God Through Respect For Both Man And Nature. Perhaps That Is Why Khasi Stories Always Begin With When Man And Beasts And Stones And Trees Spoke As One . . . How Did The Great Storytelling Tradition Of The Khasis Survive So Long Without A Script? Putting Together Myths And Legends Peopled By Deities And Poor Folk, Speaking Trees And Talking Tigers, The Sun And The Moon And Everything Below Bilingual Poet And Writer Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Describes How Fables Of Love And Jealousy, Hate And Forgiveness, Evil And Redemption Inform The Philosophy, Moral Principles And Daily Activities Of His Community Even Today.
Book Synopsis Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh by : Duff Hart-Davis
Download or read book Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh written by Duff Hart-Davis and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularly known as India's latterday Jim Corbett and 'tiger man', 87-year-old Billy Arjan Singh is by any standards an extraordinary man. At Tiger Haven, his home in a magical spot on the edge of the jungle in UP, Singh's experiments with bringing up three orphaned leopards, and also Tara, a tiger cub that he imported from a zoo in England, shot him into both limelight and controversy. His aim was to see if Tara's instincts would make her revert to the wild when she became mature. They did, and over the years, she produced four litters of cubs, thus proving his contention that it is possible to supplement dwindling wild stocks with zoo-born animals. But when it was discovered that the tigress had Siberian genes in her ancestry, he was accused of having introduced a 'genetic cocktail'into the jungle. Undeterred, Singh remained a champion of the forest and its denizens. It was almost entirely due to his advocacy that in 1973 the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, authorized the creation of the Dudhwa National Park. Now, in his eighties, comes recognition for his efforts. In March 2005, he received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation award - a global honour administered by the World Wildlife Fund, that serves to recognize outstanding contributions in international conservation. In this affectionate biography, the British author Duff Hart-Davis tells the story of a man absolutely dedicated to the cause of animals, who has given fifty years of his own life to their conservation.
Download or read book Measures of Home written by Leela Gandhi and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Watching India's Wildlife by : Arjan Singh
Download or read book Watching India's Wildlife written by Arjan Singh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects together the best of the writings of Billy Arjan Singh, one of India's most active conservationists.
Download or read book Paradise of the Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dreaming Jewels by : Theodore Sturgeon
Download or read book The Dreaming Jewels written by Theodore Sturgeon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate boy escapes his abusive home by joining a carnival and is drawn into a dark conspiracy in this tale by “a master storyteller” (Kurt Vonnegut). Though only eight years old, little Horton “Horty” Bluett has known a lifetime of sadness. Tormented and abused by his adoptive family, he’s had enough—and with a beloved broken toy he calls “Junky” as his sole companion, the desperate little boy runs away to join a carnival. There, among the fortune tellers, fire-eaters, sideshow freaks, and assorted “strange people,” Horty hopes to find acceptance and, at long last, a real home. But disgraced doctor Pierre “Maneater” Monetre’s traveling show is no ordinary entertainment, and its performers are not what they appear to be. The Maneater has sinister plans for the world that go far beyond fleecing unsuspecting rubes and other easy marks—a dark and terrible scheme that requires unleashing the extraterrestrial power of the dreaming jewels, and the unwitting assistance of a young boy who may be far more remarkable than he’s ever imagined. The full-length debut by Theodore Sturgeon, a legendary writer who won Nebula and Hugo Awards and authored such classics as More Than Human, this journey into a circus of shadows is “an intensely written and very moving novel of love and retribution” (The Washington Star). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Theodore Sturgeon including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library and the author’s estate, among other sources.
Book Synopsis A Knight of Another Sort by : Gary DeNeal
Download or read book A Knight of Another Sort written by Gary DeNeal and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913 Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. He was charismatic, with an easygoing manner and a cavalier generosity that made him popular. The stuff of legend, he was part monster, part Robin Hood. In the early days, he would emerge from his restaurant/saloon in tiny Ledford in Saline County with a cigar box full of coins and throw handfuls in the air for the children. Echoing the consensus on Birger, an anonymous gang member called him "enigmatic," noting that "he had a wonderful quality, a heart of gold. There in Harrisburg sometimes he'd support twelve or fifteen families, buy coal, groceries. . . . [But] he had cold eyes, a killer's eyes. He would kill you for something somebody else would punch you in the nose for." Drawing from the colorful cast of the living, the dead, and the soon-to-be-dead—a state shared by many associated with Birger and his enemies, the Shelton gang—DeNeal re-creates Prohibition-era southern Illinois. He depicts the fatal shootout between S. Glenn Young and Ora Thomas, the battle on the Herrin Masonic Temple lawn in which six were slain and the Ku Klux Klan crushed, and the wounding of Williamson County state's attorney Arlie O. Boswell. As the gang wars escalated and the roster of corpses lengthened, the gangsters embraced technology. The Sheltons bombed Birger's roadhouse, Shady Rest, from a single-engine airplane. Both Birger and the Sheltons used armored vehicles to intimidate their enemies, and the chatter of machine gun fire grew common. The gang wars ended with massive arrests, trials, and convictions of gangsters who once had seemed invincible. Charlie Birger was convicted of the murder of West City mayor Joe Adams and sentenced to death. On April 19, 1928, he stood on the gallows looking down on the large crowd that had come to see him die. "It's a beautiful world," Birger said softly as he prepared to leave it.
