Elsewhere In The Land Of Parrots

Author : Jim Paul
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417706430

Get Book

Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots by Jim Paul Pdf

Reclusive David Huntington writes rigorously meaningless poetry to great acclaim. But he lives fearfully, sleeping and working with earplugs, rarely going outside, drawing his life more closely around him every day. A wild parrot, a gift from his father, becomes the breach in the dike: Little Wittgenstein has a jungle shriek, fierce eyes, and a beak that wreaks havoc. David finally throws the bird out the window-and follows it into the world. His guilty search for the parrot takes him first to Telegraph Hill, where the parrot may have found others of its kind. Then David is lured to South America by rumors of an ancient flock in the mangrove swamps. There he meets the lovely levelheaded Fern, an American scientist who has her own reasons for searching for the birds. Will he retreat or follow the parrots' call?

Author : Jim Paul
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156029723

Get Book

Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots by Jim Paul Pdf

Reclusive David Huntington writes rigorously meaningless poetry to great acclaim. But he lives fearfully, sleeping and working with earplugs, rarely going outside, drawing his life more closely around him every day. A wild parrot, a gift from his father, becomes the breach in the dike: Little Wittgenstein has a jungle shriek, fierce eyes, and a beak that wreaks havoc. David finally throws the bird out the window--and follows it into the world. His guilty search for the parrot takes him first to Telegraph Hill, where the parrot may have found others of its kind. Inexorably David is drawn even farther, lured to South America by rumors of an ancient flock in the wild mangrove swamps. There he meets the lovely level-headed Fern, an American scientist who has her own reasons for searching for the birds. Will he retreat, or follow the parrots' call? Jim Paul has created a tender, whimsical romance, told with wit and subtlety, about having the courage to heed the messages the world sends you, and to welcome unexpected love.

Author : Noel F. R. Snyder
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Birds
ISBN : 2831705045

Get Book

Parrots by Noel F. R. Snyder Pdf

Author : Steven Moore
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441177049

Get Book

Novel: An Alternative History by Steven Moore Pdf

>

Author : Brenda E. F. Beck
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781927453599

Get Book

Land of the Golden River by Brenda E. F. Beck Pdf

A Journey through Story to Poṉṉivaḷa Nāḍu: An Ancient Tamil Kingdom This remarkable epic-length legend presents a rich and well-rounded view of local South Asian folk history, masterfully interwoven with many social themes and multiple layers of religious tradition. The text provides a lively read and can be enjoyed by students of all backgrounds and levels. This richly decorated oral telling combines numerous poetic songs with direct conversations and detailed narrative passages. The descriptive segments help to advance a broader story trajectory, leading the reader towards a long-foretold, yet still surprising, conclusion. In 1965 a highly respected troubadour duo, C. Rāmacāmi of Erucaṇampāḷayam, and his nephew Paḷaṇicāmi, sang this magnificent legend in front of a live South Indian village audience. It took them eighteen nights to complete this tale! Weeks later the senior performer, Rāmacāmi, patiently dictated this same story to a local assistant who was working for the translator at the time. The text was meticulously written down by hand, phrase-by-phrase, over many days. Both bards wanted to preserve a story they knew in their hearts was truly unique and sacred. Each gave the present collector permission to share the words of this tale. They wanted the whole world to learn about a great legend they had themselves spent years learning. This story is about the potential for social renewal and those two singers believed it could better the lives of all who listened to it. Fifty-five years later, following in in the footsteps of these two men, their enthusiasm has now born fruit in a book they had both hoped for but could never have written themselves.

Author : Francis Brooks,Martín J. Scurrah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Latin America
ISBN : WISC:89050025816

Get Book

Iberia and Latin America by Francis Brooks,Martín J. Scurrah Pdf

Author : Libby Robin
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0868408913

Get Book

How a Continent Created a Nation by Libby Robin Pdf

In this book Libby Robin explores the links between nature and nation. By looking at some of those who observe the natural world most closely--including scientists, field naturalists and farmers--she tells the story of how we as a nation have come to understand our land. Having left the cultural cringe behind, settler Australians are struggling with the 'strange nature' of this continent. Robin suggests new ways of living in an arid and urbanized continent in times of global change, and gives hope that Australia can move beyond the biological cringe.

Author : Joseph M. Forshaw
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781400836208

Get Book

Parrots of the World by Joseph M. Forshaw Pdf

From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world--and also among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, easy-to-use field guide covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots, and is the only guide organized by geographical distribution--Australasian, Afro-Asian, and neotropical. It features 146 superb color plates depicting every kind of parrot, as well as detailed, facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status. Color distribution maps show ranges of all subspecies, and field identification is further aided by relevant upperside and underside flight images. This premier field guide also shows where to observe each species in the wild, helping make this the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the parrots of the world. The only parrot guide to focus on geographical distribution Covers all 356 species Features 146 color plates depicting all species and well-differentiated subspecies Provides detailed facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status Includes color distribution maps Shows where to observe each species in the wild

Author : Bruce Thomas Boehrer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812201369

Get Book

Animal Characters by Bruce Thomas Boehrer Pdf

During the Renaissance, horses—long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant—gradually lost their special place on the field of battle and, with it, their distinctive status in the world of chivalric heroism. Parrots, once the miraculous, articulate companions of popes and emperors, declined into figures of mindless mimicry. Cats, which were tortured by Catholics in the Middle Ages, were tortured in the Reformation as part of the Protestant attack on Catholicism. And sheep, the model for Agnus Dei imagery, underwent transformations at once legal, material, and spiritual as a result of their changing role in Europe's growing manufacturing and trade economies. While in the Middle Ages these nonhumans were endowed with privileged social associations, personal agency, even the ability to reason and speak, in the early modern period they lost these qualities at the very same time that a new emphasis on, and understanding of, human character was developing in European literature. In Animal Characters Bruce Thomas Boehrer follows five species—the horse, the parrot, the cat, the turkey, and the sheep—through their appearances in an eclectic mix of texts, from romances and poetry to cookbooks and natural histories. He shows how dramatic changes in animal character types between 1400 and 1700 relate to the emerging economy and culture of the European Renaissance. In early modern European culture, animals not only served humans as sources of labor, companionship, clothing, and food; these nonhuman creatures helped to form an understanding of personhood. Incorporating readings of Shakespeare's plays, Milton's Paradise Lost, Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World, and other works, Boehrer's series of animal character studies illuminates a fascinating period of change in interspecies relationships.

Author : Mira Tweti
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 0670019690

Get Book

Of Parrots and People by Mira Tweti Pdf

Discusses scientific findings on the intelligence, personality, and rich lives of parrots that challenges flawed assumptions about nonprimates. Topics include animal welfare, what parrots are worth on the black market, and their uncanny ability to bond with humans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175028563529

Get Book

The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Penny Olsen
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486302994

Get Book

Night Parrot by Penny Olsen Pdf

For well over a century, the Night Parrot lured its seekers into Australia's vast, arid outback. From the beginning it was a mysterious bird. Fewer than 30 specimens were collected before it all but disappeared, offering only fleeting glimpses and the occasional mummified body as proof of its continued existence. Protected by spinifex and darkness, the parrot attained almost mythical status: a challenge to birdwatchers and an inspiration to poets, novelists and artists. Night Parrot documents the competitiveness and secrecy, the triumphs and adventures of the history of the bird and its followers, culminating in the recent discovery of live birds at a few widely scattered locations. It describes what we are now unravelling about the mysteries of its biology and ecology and what is still left to learn. Complemented by guest essays, illustrations and photographs from a wide variety of sources, this book sheds light on Australia's most elusive bird.

Author : Laubscher,Mike Perrin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781868145911

Get Book

Parrots of Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands by Laubscher,Mike Perrin Pdf

Parrots? colour and charisma, coupled with the fact that they mimic human speech, make them fascinating to many people. They are ancient birds with unique bill and foot structures that enable them to forage on fruits in the canopy of forest trees as well as on seeds in grasslands. Because they depend on fruits and seeds all year round, most species are confined to the tropics or sub-tropics, where the world?s biodiversity is at its greatest. There are over three hundred species of parrots, of which more than one hundred are recognised as rare, endangered, vulnerable or threatened with extinction. Parrots are largely distributed in tropical areas of developing countries where economies are weak and uncertain, and where there is great dependence on the exploitation of natural resources, particularly hard wood evergreen forests, which are preferred parrot habitats. Unfortunately, high levels of corruption are common to these regions, with much illegal trade in animals and little or no law enforcement. Collectors of parrots in the first world pay huge sums for rare parrots. However, research, education and conservation actions are greatly reducing illegal trade in African parrots. This book provides complete coverage of all aspects of the biology of extant African, Malagasy and Mascarene parrots, and reviews our knowledge of extinct and fossil parrots from the region. Particular themes include the behavioural and ecological characteristics of parrots, their species characteristics and conservation biology. Current concepts in avian and conservation biology are also discussed. Parrots of Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands is aimed at ornithologists, conservation biologists, avian ecologists, academics, bird watchers and parrot fans alike. It is well illustrated, with high quality original photographs, and includes distribution maps, figures and tables.

Author : William Dampier
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547241607

Get Book

A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699 by William Dampier Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699" by William Dampier. 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.

Author : Giuliano Bertúccioli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:$B27658

Get Book

Travels to Real and Imaginary Lands by Giuliano Bertúccioli Pdf

Grounded in the authors' rare philological skills in both East Asian and European languages, this volume deals with the description of Japan and China by 16th-C. Florentine merchant Francesco Carlotti, and with the influence on Chinese poetry of the imaginary "Land of Parrots" reported in European maps.