A Sky Full Of Birds

Author : Matt Merritt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781473503328

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A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt Pdf

'Prose from a poet and a personal take on the spectacles' Chris Packham, author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar Shortlisted for Richard Jefferies Society & White Horse Bookshop Literary Prize 2017 Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2017 Britain is a nation of bird-lovers. However, few of us fully appreciate the sheer scale, variety and drama of our avian life. From city-centre hunters to vast flocks straight out of the Arctic wilderness, much-loved dawn songsters to the exotic invaders of supermarket car parks, a host of remarkable wildlife spectacles are waiting to be discovered right outside our front doors. In A Sky Full of Birds, poet and nature writer Matt Merritt shares his passion for birdwatching by taking us to some of the great avian gatherings that occur around the British isles – from ravens in Anglesey and raptors on the Wirral, to Kent nightingales and Scottish capercaillies. By turns lyrical, informative and entertaining, he shows how natural miracles can be found all around us, if only we know where to look for them. A Sky Full of Birds is the perfect read for avid birdwatchers and a beautiful gift for lovers of nature and poetic prose.

Author : Rob Ryan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452112183

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A Sky Full of Kindness by Rob Ryan Pdf

With magical, intricate papercuts Rob Ryan tells the story of two birds about to become parents for the first time. From the hopes for their unborn child to the fears about their own state of readiness, 'A Sky Full of Kindness' captures the intense and contradictory feelings of an unconditional love.

Author : Balrāj Komal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Urdu poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015033080964

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A Sky Full of Birds by Balrāj Komal Pdf

The Present Volume Is A Beautiful Collection Of 67 Poems Which Originally Appeared In Urdu As Parindon Bhara Asman. Rich And Suggestive The Poems Depict The Author'S Keen Social Awarness, Rare Sensitivity, Warmth Of Feeling And Deep Human Understangding. The Collection Was Awarded The Sahitya Akademi Award For Urdu In 1985.

Author : Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466871120

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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Pdf

Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now Winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel Finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel Paste's 50 Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far) List “The book is full of quirkiness and playful detail...but there's an overwhelming depth and poignancy to its virtuoso ending.” —NPR From the former editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning Nebula Award-winning and Hugo-shortlisted novel about the end of the world—and the beginning of our future An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go to war in order to prevent the world from tearing itself apart. To further complicate things, each of the groups’ most promising followers (Patricia, a brilliant witch and Laurence, an engineering “wunderkind”) may just be in love with each other. As the battle between magic and science wages in San Francisco against the backdrop of international chaos, Laurence and Patricia are forced to choose sides. But their choices will determine the fate of the planet and all mankind. In a fashion unique to Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky offers a humorous and, at times, heart-breaking exploration of growing up extraordinary in a world filled with cruelty, scientific ingenuity, and magic. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Brandy Colbert
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780063056688

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Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert Pdf

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factors—white resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and more—a portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the mid–twentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today. The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America—and by showing us who we are, points to a way forward. YALSA Honor Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

Author : Carrol L. Henderson
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781616731397

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Birds in Flight by Carrol L. Henderson Pdf

They soar and they glide, they flap and they flutter, they swoop and they plummet. Solo or en masse, in formation or pas de deux, birds in flight are in their element, their airborne behavior as varied and distinctive as their plumage. In this book, wildlife biologist Carrol Henderson, a twenty-year veteran of bird-watching around the globe, offers his insights into spotting and identifying birds in flight. With 150 of Henderson’s exquisite close-up photographs of airborne birds, as well as diagrams illustrating the principles of flight and detailed information based on firsthand research, this book is as informative as it is simply delightful to look at. The singular beauty of an iridescent hummingbird pollinating a flower, the majesty of a condor soaring above the Andes, the impressive spectacle of migrating geese in Minnesota, black storks in Kenya, or Swainson’s hawks in Bolivia: in your back yard or far afield, this guide lets you enjoy the beauty of birds taking wing while learning the fascinating science of how, precisely, birds fly.

Author : Helen Macdonald
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735235519

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Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SILVER MEDALIST for the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk, a brilliant and insightful work about our relationship to the natural world Our world is a fascinating place, teeming not only with natural wonders that defy description, but complex interactions that create layers of meaning. Helen Macdonald is gifted with a special lens that seems to peer right through it all, and she shares her insights--at times startling, nostalgic, weighty, or simply entertaining--in this masterful collection of essays. From reflections on science fiction to the true story of an Iranian refugee's flight to the UK, Macdonald has a truly omnivorous taste when it comes to observations of both the banal and sublime. Peppered throughout are reminisces of her own life, from her strange childhood in an estate owned by the Theosophical Society to watching total eclipses of the sun, visits to Uzbek solar power plants, eccentric English country shows, and desert hunting camps in the Gulf States. These essays move from personal experiences into wider meditations about love and loss and how we build the world around us. Whether more journalistic in tone, or literary--even formally experimental--each piece is generous, lyrical, and speaks to one another. Macdonald creates a strong thematic undertow that quietly takes the reader along piece to piece and sets them down, finally, at a place they've never been before.

Author : Trevor Herriot
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781443400848

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Grass, Sky, Song by Trevor Herriot Pdf

Published to wide acclaim, this beautiful meditation on the fate of grassland birds has been praised for its profound wisdom and lyrical grace. Herriot, in a narrative that is at once intimate and informative, argues for the essential nature of these tiny creatures. He invites us into the unique world of dedicated scientists, passionate naturalists and such historical figures as 19th-century botanist John Macoun, the last naturalist to see the Great Plains in its pre-settlement grandeur. Grass, Sky, Song is a blending of personal experience, history, philosophy and scientific research. Filled with evocative “sidebar” descriptions of threatened birds, from the sharp-tailed grouse to the chestnutcollared longspur, this graceful book demonstrates why Trevor Herriot is regarded as one of Canada’s finest non-fiction writers.

Author : Rae Paige
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 0307158217

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Big Bird's Book about the Earth and Sky by Rae Paige Pdf

Answers questions about the earth and sky, including what is an ocean and what is a star.

Author : Zaina Alsous
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781610756747

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A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous Pdf

Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funerals This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds—particularly extinct species—become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze. Putting ecological preservation in conversation with Arab racial formation, state vernacular with the chatter of birds, Alsous explores how categorization can be a tool for detachment, domination, and erasure. Stretching their wings toward de-erasure, these poems—their subjects and their logics—refuse to stay put within a single category. This is poetry in support of a decolonized mind.

Author : Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Birds
ISBN : OXFORD:N11032452

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Sketch-book of British Birds by Richard Bowdler Sharpe Pdf

Author : George Laycock
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0385468350

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The Bird Watcher's Bible by George Laycock Pdf

A guide for nature lovers of all ages; where to see birds and how to identify them; description, range and habits of common North American species; 11 great bird-watching vacations.

Author : Stephen Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bird watchers
ISBN : 1842627503

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A Sky Full of Starlings by Stephen Moss Pdf

Stephen Moss began on 1st January 2007 to chronicle each species of bird as he was seeing it for the first time, and continued to do so until 31st December. Here he writes about what he saw, where he saw it, who he was with, and what it made him think and feel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228103339

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100 Flying Birds by Anonim Pdf

"Flight is the essence of birdness. I strive to illustrate the beauty and complexity of avian flight." -- Peter Cavanagh 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight offers a vivid and varied glimpse into the world of birds. A white-tailed eagle plummeting through a Japanese sky, a brown pelican striking a silhouette against an Ecuadorian sunset, an Atlantic puffin carrying its fish dinner above the Scottish coast, or a keel-billed toucan gliding through a Costa Rican jungle canopy; readers will marvel at the splendor of birds in flight while learning the techniques to capture these gravity-defying moments from a world-class nature photographer. For each picture, author and photographer Peter Cavanagh shares his most evocative thoughts: the challenges of the shoot, the beauty of the location, and the curiosities of the species. Bird people will enjoy the bird photographs and facts, travelers will gobble up the tales of distant parts, and photographers will absorb the technical details. For instance, readers might be surprised to see that a very slow shutter speed can freeze the motion of hummingbird wings. Peter Cavanagh has collected 100 beautiful photos spanning a wide range of species. The subjects of each of the 11 chapters are: Eagles Hummingbirds Gulls and Terns Small Waterbirds Large Waterbirds Ducks, Geese and Swans Raptors Condors and Corvids Cranes Songbirds Favorites

Author : Gregory Forth
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781487510060

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Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird by Gregory Forth Pdf

Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia. Gregory Forth sheds light on the ongoing anthropological debate surrounding the categorization of animals in small-scale non-Western societies. Forth’s detailed discussion of how the Nage people conceptualize their relationship to the animal world covers the naming and classification of animals, their symbolic and practical use, and the ecology of central Flores and its change over the years. His study reveals the empirical basis of Nage classifications, which align surprisingly well with the taxonomies of modern biologists. It also shows how the Nage employ systems of symbolic and utilitarian classification distinct from their general taxonomy. A tremendous source of ethnographic detail, Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is an important contribution to the fields of ethnobiology and cognitive anthropology.