Author : Barry Hughart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0552126462
Bridge of Birds
Barry Hughart
Bridge Of Birds
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The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
Barry Hughart
Author : Barry Hughart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : 1596062002
The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart Pdf
Contains Barry Hughart's three novels concerning Master Li and Number Ten Ox, including the World Fantasy Award-winning, BRIDGE OF BIRDS.
Birding at the Bridge
Heather Wolf
Author : Heather Wolf
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781615193141
Birding at the Bridge by Heather Wolf Pdf
One woman shares her quest to document a stunning variety of birds found in Brooklyn Bridge Park in this wonderful guide for birders everywhere. The Brooklyn Bridge once overshadowed a decaying industrial waterfront, but today it points the way to a new green oasis: Brooklyn Bridge Park. When avid birder Heather Wolf moved from tropical Florida to a nearby apartment, she wondered how many species she might see there, and soon came to a surprising realization: Not only is the park filled with an astonishing variety of birds, but the challenges that come with urban birding make them even more fun—and rewarding—to find. Camera in hand, Heather has captured scores of memorable scenes—a European starling pokes its head out of a hole in a snack shop, a marsh wren straddles two branches, common grackle nestlings clamor for food above the basketball courts—in more than 150 stunning photographs that will entrance birders and bird lovers, wherever their local patch may be. From the familiar-but-striking bufflehead duck to the elusive mourning warbler, every species comes to life on the page, foraging, nesting, and soaring in the slice of the city where they’ve made themselves at home. Discover the thrilling adventure of birding in the great outdoors—in the heart of Brooklyn. Praise for Birding at the Bridge “Where you may see only pigeons, sparrows and the occasional sea gull, [Heather Wolf] has recorded 130 species, many of which she has beautifully photographed.” —The New York Times “Part of the pleasure of her book, besides excellent photography . . . is the way [Heather Wolf] shares the circumstances and excitement of particular sightings.” —The Wall Street Journal
The Story of the Stone
Barry Hughart
Author : Barry Hughart
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307800978
The Story of the Stone by Barry Hughart Pdf
Set in a mythical, medieval China where folklore and history are indistinguishable, a dead monk, an ancientand now missingmanuscript, and a ghostly murderer entice the venerable Master Li and his faithful companion Number Ten Ox into the Valley of Sorrows for a deadly and uproarious confrontation with the long-dead Laughing Prince.
The Brave
James Bird
Author : James Bird
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250247742
The Brave by James Bird Pdf
Perfect for fans of Rain Reign, this middle-grade novel The Brave is about a boy with an undiagnosed anxiety issue and his move to a reservation to live with his biological mother. Collin can't help himself—he has a mental health condition that finds him counting every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies, and frustrates the adults around him, including his father. When Collin asked to leave yet another school, his dad decides to send him to live in Minnesota with the mother he's never met. She is Ojibwe, and lives on a reservation. Collin arrives in Duluth with his loyal dog, Seven, and quickly finds his mom and his new home to be warm, welcoming, and accepting of his disability. Collin’s quirk is matched by that of his neighbor, Orenda, a girl who lives mostly in her treehouse and believes she is turning into a butterfly. With Orenda’s help, Collin works hard to learn the best ways to manage his anxiety disorder. His real test comes when he must step up for his new friend and trust his new family.
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
Author : Helen Macdonald
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735235519
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.
Ten Birds
Cybele Young
Author : Cybele Young
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554535682
Ten Birds by Cybele Young Pdf
Ten birds devise inventive ways to cross a river.
Birds in Fall
Brad Kessler
Author : Brad Kessler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743287395
Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler Pdf
Hauntingly beautiful, this new work by the author of "Lick Creek" is an extraordinarily moving novel about solitude, love, losing one's way, and finding something like home.
Eight Skilled Gentlemen
Barry Hughart
Author : Barry Hughart
Publisher : Crown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307768629
Eight Skilled Gentlemen by Barry Hughart Pdf
The third book in the Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox series When a resepcted mandarin is murdered in the heart of the Forbidden City, Master Li and his sidekick, Number Ten Ox, are called in to investigate. Thus begins a Sherlockian adventure that takes Master Li and Number Ten Ox--accompanied by a scarred puppeteer and his shamanka daughter--on a wild chase across China. With murder, mayhem, and magic aplenty, and Chinese folklore and literary references thrown into the mix, Eight Skilled Gentlemen is a hilarious romp through Ancient China.
The Feathery Tribe
Daniel Lewis
Author : Daniel Lewis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300183450
The Feathery Tribe by Daniel Lewis Pdf
"Long forgotten, the Smithsonian Institution's first curator of birds, Robert Ridgway, is one of America's most important scientists. This book centers itself around a biographical treatment of Ridgway, but even more important considers what it meant to be a professional and an amateur in biology in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and shows how the field of ornithology was professionalized as evolutionary theory made its mark on the study of birds"--Provided by publisher.
A Catalog of Birds
Laura Harrington
Author : Laura Harrington
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609454043
A Catalog of Birds by Laura Harrington Pdf
This novel of a wounded Vietnam veteran’s homecoming is both “a searing war story and a page-turning thriller” (The Washington Post). Billy Flynn has always wanted to fly, like the birds he draws with pencils and paints. He is also a patriot, so in 1970 he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later, he is the only one to survive after his helicopter is shot down. A wounded Billy returns home to his family in upstate New York, including Nell, his adoring younger sister. In his absence, the woman he loves has mysteriously disappeared. His wounds have crippled his ability to hold a pencil and his hearing loss has cut him off from the natural world he loves so much. Nell, a brilliant student headed for a career in science, is determined to do all that’s possible to save him. A Catalog of Birds is the story of a community confronted with shattered innocence and with wounds that may never heal, in “a beautiful book about family, loss, and love [whose] memorable characters will haunt you long after you put it down” (Claire Messud, New York Times–bestselling author of The Woman Upstairs). “Stunning natural descriptions provide a rich backdrop for Harrington’s beautifully articulated coming-of-age story, which captures the pain of loved ones grappling with the after effects of war.” —Booklist (starred review)
The Devil's Cormorant
Richard J. King
Author : Richard J. King
Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781611684742
The Devil's Cormorant by Richard J. King Pdf
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.
A Dictionary of Birds
Bruce Campbell,Elizabeth Lack
Author : Bruce Campbell,Elizabeth Lack
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408138397
A Dictionary of Birds by Bruce Campbell,Elizabeth Lack Pdf
A Dictionary of Birds enlists contributions from over 280 ornithologists and other specialists from around the world. Major, authoritative articles cover the field of modern ornithology and related subjects, many of them running to several thousand words. In addition there are articles on all the bird families, almost all of which are illustrated by a representative species. There are also numerous short entries defining special terms, application of names, etc. The total gives a text of over 800,000 words, supported by more than 500 photographs, drawings and diagrams. The photographs have been selected under the guidance of Eric Hosking to illustrate different activities of birds, and Robert Gillmor has assembled a collection of over 200 drawings of birds, almost all of which were specially drawn for the Dictionary. Compiled for the British Ornithologists' Union, this new work is in line of succession from Newton's A Dictionary of Birds of 1896 and Landsborough Thomson's A New Dictionary of Birds published in 1964 (2nd impression 1965) and now long out of print. This dictionary, encyclopedic in treatment, is destined to be a major reference in any ornithologist's library; and its editors and contributors, most of whom gave their time and knowledge freely, have earned the thanks and acclaim of users for many years to come.
City Birding
Kenn Kaufman
Author : Kenn Kaufman
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0811700275
City Birding by Kenn Kaufman Pdf
The country's best-known birders observe birds in places where thriving bird life comes as a surprise. Funny and informative.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593470954
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Pdf
This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.