Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1908213892
Aurochs and Auks
John Burnside
Aurochs And Auks
Aurochs And Auks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Aurochs And Auks book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Auk, the Dodo, and the Oryx
Robert Silverberg
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : New York : Crowell
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Animals
ISBN : UOM:39015027385460
The Auk, the Dodo, and the Oryx by Robert Silverberg Pdf
An historical record of the existence and extinction of those animals lost as a result of man's habitation and civilization on earth, with a summary of conservation efforts today.
Cornerstones
Benedict Macdonald
Author : Benedict Macdonald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472971562
Cornerstones by Benedict Macdonald Pdf
FINALIST IN THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2022/2023 – WRITTEN BY THE WAINWRIGHT-CONSERVATION-PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF REBIRDING. Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once supported Britain's extraordinary natural riches, and could again. Our precious archipelago is ravaged by climate change, bereft of natural ecosystems and lies at the mercy of global warming, flooding, drought and catastrophic biodiversity loss. But could restoring species that once helped protect our islands help turn this crisis around? From familiar yet imperilled honeybees and ancient oak woods to returning natives like beavers and boars, Britain's cornerstone species may hold the key to recovering our biodiversity on land and in our seas. In Cornerstones, we discover how beavers craft wetlands, save fish, encourage otters, and prevent rivers from flooding. We learn how 'disruptive' boars are seasoned butterfly conservationists, why whales are crucial for restoring seabird cities and how wolves and lynx could save our trees, help sequester carbon and protect our most threatened birds. Benedict Macdonald transforms our understanding of the natural world forever, revealing lives that once supported extraordinary natural riches and explaining how humans – the most important cornerstone species of all – can become the greatest stewards of the natural world.
Learning to Sleep
John Burnside
Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Random House
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781473577374
Learning to Sleep by John Burnside Pdf
Lucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness. Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, John Burnside's first collection of poetry in four years - from the author's mother, commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant on the pastoral elegy, to the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wanders an implausible Lincolnshire landscape looking for some sign of belonging. Throughout the book, the powers and dominions of a lost pagan ancestry emerge unexpectedly through the gaps in contemporary life: half-seen and fleeting, but profoundly present. Behind it all, the figure of Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, marks Burnside's own attempts to come to terms with the severe sleep disorder from which he has suffered for years, a condition that culminated in the recent near-death experience that informs the latter part of the book. Add to this a series of provocative meditations on the ways in which we are all harmed by institutions, from organised religion, or marriage, to the tawdry concepts of gender and romantic love that subtly govern our personal lives, and Learning to Sleep reveals Burnside at his most elegiac, while still retaining a radical pagan's sense of celebration and cultural independence. 'For my money, John Burnside is by far the best British poet alive... I read it over and over again, marvelling at its concision and beauty.' Cressida Connolly, Spectator ** A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021**
Across a Waking Land
Roger Morgan-Grenville
Author : Roger Morgan-Grenville
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781785789779
Across a Waking Land by Roger Morgan-Grenville Pdf
A veteran nature writer walks the length of Britain in pursuit of spring, and of hope Fed up with bleak headlines of biodiversity loss, acclaimed nature writer Roger Morgan-Grenville sets out on a 1,000-mile walk through a British spring to see whether there are reasons to be hopeful about the natural world. His aim is to match the pace at which the oak leaves emerge, roughly 20 miles north each day. Fighting illness, blizzards and his own ageing body, he visits every main habitat between Lymington and Cape Wrath in an epic eight-week adventure, encountering, over and over again, the kindness of strangers and the inspiring efforts of those fighting heroically for nature. With surprising conclusions throughout, what unfolds is both life-affirming and life-changing.
Ruin, Blossom
John Burnside
Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Random House
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781529921649
Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside Pdf
A remarkable new collection exploring ageing, mortality and environmental destruction - from our finest Scottish lyric poet **WINNER OF THE DAVID COHEN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023** 'By far the best British poet alive' SPECTATOR 'A master of language' HILARY MANTEL In this powerful, moving new book, John Burnside takes his cue from Schiller, who recognised that, as one thing fades, so another flourishes: everywhere and always, in matters great and small, new life blossoms amongst the ruins. Here, in poems that explore ageing, mortality, environmental destruction and mental illness, Burnside not only mourns what is lost in passing, but also celebrates the new, and sometimes unexpected, forms that emerge from such losses. An elegy for a dead lover ends with a quiet recognition of everyday beauty – first sun streaming through the trees ... a skylark in the near field, flush with song – as the speaker emerges from lockdown after a long illness. Throughout, the poet attends to the quality of grace – numinous, exquisite, fleeting as an angel’s wing – and the broken tryst between humankind and its spiritual and animal elements, even with itself: the gaunt deer on the roads/like refugees. He acknowledges the inevitability of the fading towards death, but still finds chimes of light in the darkness – insisting that, here and now, even in decline, the world, when given its due attention, is all Annunciation.
The Dumb House
John Burnside
Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446412237
The Dumb House by John Burnside Pdf
As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals – tiny hearts revealed still pumping, as life trickles away. But as an adult, following the death of his mother, Luke’s obsession deepens, resulting in a haunting and bizarre experiment on Luke’s own children.
A Lie About My Father
John Burnside
Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409017097
A Lie About My Father by John Burnside Pdf
A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child. He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening drinker who was quick with his hands, he hadn't seen his son for years. John Burnside's extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by the drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. A Lie About My Father is about forgiving but not forgetting, about examining the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father. Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
Giraffe
Anne Innis Dagg
Author : Anne Innis Dagg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107034860
Giraffe by Anne Innis Dagg Pdf
An up-to-date portrait of the giraffe, summarising current knowledge on their biology and behaviour along with current conservation efforts.
The Gathering Night
Margaret Elphinstone
Author : Margaret Elphinstone
Publisher : McArthur & Co
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Missing persons
ISBN : 9781770871168
The Gathering Night by Margaret Elphinstone Pdf
THE GATHERING NIGHT is a story of conflict, loss, love, adventure and devastating natural disasters. This utterly enchanting pre-historical novel is set deep in our stone-age past, but resonates as a parable of our troubled planet eight thousand years on.
Something Like Happy
John Burnside
Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Random House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 9780224097031
Something Like Happy by John Burnside Pdf
In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink and diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men - lonely, unfaithful, dying - driving empty roads at night. These are people for whom the idea of 'home' has become increasingly intangible, and happiness, grace and freedom all now seem to belong in some kind of dream or a fable they might have read in a children's picture book.
Farmer's Glory
A. G. Street
Author : A. G. Street
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547194187
Farmer's Glory by A. G. Street Pdf
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Farmer's Glory" by A. G. Street. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Great Plains Bison
Dan O'Brien
Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496203021
Great Plains Bison by Dan O'Brien Pdf
A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population. A longtime wildlife biologist and one of the most powerful literary voices on the Great Plains, Dan O'Brien has managed his own ethically run buffalo ranch since 1997. Drawing on both extensive research and decades of personal experience, he details not only the natural history of the bison but also its prominent symbolism in Native American culture and its rise as an icon of the Great Plains. Great Plains Bison is a tribute to the bison's essential place at the heart of the North American prairie and its ability to inspire naturalists and wildlife advocates in the fight to preserve American biodiversity.
Prairie Ghost
Richard E. McCabe,Henry M. Reeves,Bart W. O'Gara
Author : Richard E. McCabe,Henry M. Reeves,Bart W. O'Gara
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781607321118
Prairie Ghost by Richard E. McCabe,Henry M. Reeves,Bart W. O'Gara Pdf
A Wildlife Management Institute Book In this lavishly illustrated volume Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one of fourteen pronghorn-like genera to survive the great extinction brought on by human migration into North America, the pronghorn has a long and unique history of interaction with humans on the continent, a history that until now has largely remained unwritten. With nearly 150 black-and-white photographs, 16 pages of color illustrations, plus original artwork by Daniel P. Metz, Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America tells the intriguing story of humans and these elusive big game mammals in an informative and entertaining fashion that will appeal to historians, biologists, sportsmen and the general reader alike. Winner of the Wildlife Society's Outstanding Book Award for 2005
Terrestrial Cetartiodactyla
Luca Corlatti,Frank E. Zachos
Author : Luca Corlatti,Frank E. Zachos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030244750
Terrestrial Cetartiodactyla by Luca Corlatti,Frank E. Zachos Pdf
This volume provides comprehensive overviews of each terrestrial cetartiodactyl species’ biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat and diet. Their economic significance and management, as well as future challenges for research and conservation are also addressed. Each chapter includes a distribution map, a photograph of the animal and key literature. This authoritative volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe is a timely and detailed compilation of all European terrestrial cetartiodactyls and will appeal to academics and students in mammal research, as well as to professionals dealing with mammal management, including control, use and conservation.
