A Bird Loving Man

Author : Noah K. Strycker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UIUC:30112096903247

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Among Penguins by Noah K. Strycker Pdf

The year he graduated from college, 22-year-old Noah Strycker was dropped by helicopter in a remote Antarctic field camp with two bird scientists and a three months' supply of frozen food. His subjects: more than a quarter million penguins. Compact, industrious, and approachable, the Adélie Penguins who call Antarctica home visit their breeding grounds each Antarctic summer to nest and rear their young before returning to sea. Because of long-term studies, scientists may know more about how these penguins will adjust to climate change than about any other creature in the world. Bird scientists like Noah are less well known. Like the intrepid early explorers of Antarctica, modern scientists drawn to the frozen continent face an utterly inhospitable landscape, one that inspires, isolates, and punishes. With wit, curiosity, and a deep knowledge of his subject, Strycker recounts the reality of life at the end of the Earth--thousand-year-old penguin mummies, hurricane-force blizzards, and day-to-day existence in below freezing temperatures--and delves deep into a world of science, obsession, and birds. Among Penguins weaves a captivating tale of penguins and their researchers on the coldest, driest, highest, and windiest continent on Earth. Birders, lovers of the Antarctic, and fans of first-person adventure narratives will be fascinated by Strycker's book.

Author : Rodney Stotts,Kate Pipkin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781642831740

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Bird Brother by Rodney Stotts,Kate Pipkin Pdf

In Bird Brother, Rodney Stotts shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration affecting the lives of everyone he knew. He was no exception, but he was also employed by the newly founded Earth Conservation Corps, helping to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River. This work eventually sent his life in a different direction, as he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Eye-opening, witty, and moving, Bird Brother is a testament to the healing power of nature, and a reminder that no matter how much heartbreak we've endured, we still have the capacity to give back to our communities and follow our dreams.

Author : Cindi Alvitre
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1597145092

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Waa'aka' by Cindi Alvitre Pdf

"A Tongva creation story of Catalina Island and how the black-crowned night heron came to be"--

Author : Stephanie Dolce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781435790469

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A Bird's Eye View a Different Take on Love, Relationships, the Celebrity Life-Style and Sports by Stephanie Dolce Pdf

This novel is taken from my experiences, from other people's experiences, and from any thought-provoking idea that crosses my path. Throw in how Television, radio, and even sports plays a role in how we live our lives and you got yourself a very interesting take on love, relationships, and the American obsession with the Celebrity world. So ask yourself, "Do fairy tales really exist or are we kidding ourselves by believing that we all will someday find that "happily ever after" ending in our lives?" And after you ask that question, read A Bird's Eye View and find out.

Author : Bradford Torrey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387309676

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Nature's Invitation; Notes of a Bird-Gazer, North And South by Bradford Torrey Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Zack McDermott
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316315111

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Gorilla and the Bird by Zack McDermott Pdf

*Soon to be an HBO limited series* "Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years...a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [McDermott] can move from barely controlled hilarity to the brink of rage to aching tenderness in a single breath."--Marya Hornbacher, New York Times Book Review Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot. Every passerby was an actor; every car would magically stop for him; everything he saw was a cue from "The Producer" to help inspire the performance of a lifetime. After a manic spree around Manhattan, Zack, who is bipolar, was arrested on a subway platform and admitted to Bellevue Hospital. So begins the story of Zack's freefall into psychosis and his desperate, poignant, often hilarious struggle to claw his way back to sanity. It's a journey that will take him from New York City back to his Kansas roots and to the one person who might be able to save him, his tough, big-hearted Midwestern mother, nicknamed the Bird, whose fierce and steadfast love is the light in Zack's dark world. Before his odyssey is over, Zack will be tackled by guards in mental wards, run naked through cornfields, receive secret messages from the TV, befriend a former Navy Seal and his talking stuffed monkey, and see the Virgin Mary in the whorls of his own back hair. But with the Bird's help, he just might have a shot at pulling through, starting over, and maybe even meeting a partner who can love him back, bipolar and all. Introducing an electrifying new voice, GORILLA AND THE BIRD is a raw and unforgettable account of a young man's unraveling and the relationship that saves him.

Author : Emme Lund
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982171940

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The Boy with a Bird in His Chest by Emme Lund Pdf

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize A “poignantly rendered and illuminating” (The Washington Post) coming-of-age story about “the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect” (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Thirty Names of Night. Though Owen Tanner has never met anyone else who has a chatty bird in their chest, medical forums would call him a Terror. From the moment Gail emerged between Owen’s ribs, his mother knew that she had to hide him away from the world. After a decade spent in isolation, Owen takes a brazen trip outdoors and his life is upended forever. Suddenly, he is forced to flee the home that had once felt so confining and hide in plain sight with his uncle and cousin in Washington. There, he feels the joy of finding a family among friends; of sharing the bird in his chest and being embraced fully; of falling in love and feeling the devastating heartbreak of rejection before finding a spark of happiness in the most unexpected place; of living his truth regardless of how hard the thieves of joy may try to tear him down. But the threat of the Army of Acronyms is a constant, looming presence, making Owen wonder if he’ll ever find a way out of the cycle of fear. “An honest celebration of life and everything we need right now in a book” (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author), The Boy with a Bird in His Chest grapples with the fear, depression, and feelings of isolation that come with believing that we will never be loved for who we truly are and learning to live fully and openly regardless.

Author : Rodney Williams,Helen Timbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : 1740278003

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A Bird-loving Man by Rodney Williams,Helen Timbury Pdf

Collects haiku, tanka, haibun, tanka prose and sequences from a variety of locations and experience.

Author : S. Hamil,Sharon Hamilton
Publisher : Frog Haven Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781955084499

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Free To Love: Free As A Bird (Book One) by S. Hamil,Sharon Hamilton Pdf

A perfect being who is not human... Set free upon the death of his maker, Adamis begins a life he has never imagined nor trained for. Stunningly handsome and nearly impossible to detect as an android by the human eye, he has been told to stay away from any medical facility and never to submit to bloodwork or DNA testing so that his secret will remain safe. Armed with his maker’s research notes and special unpatented enhancements he has yet learned to use, he sets upon a journey of self-discovery and learning, growing into the near-perfect being he was intended to be. On Day One of his new life he is presented a problem. He rescues a human woman left for dead. “You want her? Here, I give her to you!” her abuser tells him. How will he reconcile his own freedom with this new wrinkle—being given a human woman to own? And what happens next as he begins to heal her, when she falls in love with him? Book 1 of a brand new Futuristic Sci-Fi series by NYT bestselling author Sharon Hamilton, writing as S. Hamil.

Author : J. Drew Lanham
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571318756

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The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham Pdf

“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101079674485

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The Speaker by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Livermore Burlingame,Robert Bridges,Alfred Sheppard Dashiell,Harlan Logan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UCAL:B5290322

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Scribner's Magazine by Edward Livermore Burlingame,Robert Bridges,Alfred Sheppard Dashiell,Harlan Logan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : PRNC:32101076870714

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Scribner's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cornelia Sorabji
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066339530249

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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people by Cornelia Sorabji Pdf

"Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people" by Cornelia Sorabji. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433081678025

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