Author : Francis Brett Young
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0755115724
Far Forest
Francis Brett Young
Far In The Forest
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Forest Has A Song
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Author : Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547680996
Forest Has A Song by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Pdf
A spider is a “never-tangling dangling spinner / knitting angles, trapping dinner.” A tree frog proposes, “Marry me. Please marry me… / Pick me now. / Make me your choice. / I’m one great frog / with one strong voice.” VanDerwater lets the denizens of the forest speak for themselves in twenty-six lighthearted, easy-to-read poems. As she observes, “Silence in Forest / never lasts long. / Melody / is everywhere / mixing in / with piney air. / Forest has a song.” The graceful, appealing watercolor illustrations perfectly suit these charming poems that invite young readers into the woodland world at every season.
The Colours of the Forest
Tom Wayman
Author : Tom Wayman
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550172026
The Colours of the Forest by Tom Wayman Pdf
Tom Wayman returns with new vigour in his latest collection of poetry. Shortlisted for the 1999 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
Boise National Forest (N.F.), Far East Salvage Proposal
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030849723
Boise National Forest (N.F.), Far East Salvage Proposal by Anonim Pdf
Living far from the ground: Strategies of forest epiphytes
Paolo Giordani,Helena Einzmann,Glenda Mendieta Leiva,Ángel Benítez
Author : Paolo Giordani,Helena Einzmann,Glenda Mendieta Leiva,Ángel Benítez
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832522387
Living far from the ground: Strategies of forest epiphytes by Paolo Giordani,Helena Einzmann,Glenda Mendieta Leiva,Ángel Benítez Pdf
YEARS OF THE FOREST
Helen Hoover
Author : Helen Hoover
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307831491
YEARS OF THE FOREST by Helen Hoover Pdf
This is a book that takes us inside the Hoovers’ wilderness home during those sixteen Years of the Forest and lets us experience not only the joys and the techniques but also the challenges and travails of going it alone in the beautiful but not always accommodating wilderness, far from the technology and services that city people take for granted. It is a book of wilderness adventure, it is an education in the ingenuities of wilderness housekeeping, filled with practical details about making do, building and rebuilding, gardening for fun and for food, even advice about getting away from getting-away-from-it-all. Good times and Hard times, good neighbors and bad neighbors, the strains engendered by conflicting views—and passions—about the use of the environment: Mrs. Hoover shares her experience without stint. But above all—over, under, and all around her straightforward and practical approach to life in the wilderness—there is, as always, the sensitive and moving awareness of nature (especially of the animals with whom she and her husband shared the forest, often helping them through starving winters) that is the special quality of her writing and her life.
Song from the Forest
Louis Sarno
Author : Louis Sarno
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595347497
Song from the Forest by Louis Sarno Pdf
As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some funding from musician Brian Eno, he followed the mysterious sounds all the way to the Central African rain forest and found their source with the Bayaka Pygmies, a tribe of hunters and gatherers. Nothing could have prepared him for life among the Pygmies, a people legendary for their short stature and musical wealth. Sarno never left. Considered outwardly lazy by some, scrounging, and near alcoholic, the Pygmies Sarno met had seemingly lost all desire to hunt or make music. Only after he had lived with them for some time (on a diet of tadpoles) was he allowed to join them in the rain forest where they still in relative harmony with nature. There Sarno experienced the extraordinary beauty and spiritual sophistication of their culture and the supreme importance of music as the principal means by which they communicate with the rain forest and its magical spirits. Over the decades Sarno has recorded more than 1,000 hours of unique Bayaka music. He is a fully accepted member of the Bayaka society and married a Bayaka woman. Permanently changed by his experience and captivated by a Bayaka culture, In Song from the Forest Sarno has chronicled his attempt to protect the fragile existence of the Pygmies in an increasingly destructive world. Once, when his son, Samedi, became seriously ill and Sarno feared for his life, he held his son in his arms through a frightful night and made him a promise: “If you get through this, one day I’ll show you the world I come from.” Now the time has come to fulfill his promise. In a new major documentary film, Sarno tells the story of the Bayaka as he travels with Samedi from the African rain forest to another jungle, one of concrete, glass, and asphalt: New York City. Together, they meet Louis’ family and old friends, including his closest friend from college, Jim Jarmusch. Carried by the contrasts between rainforest and urban America, and a fascinating soundtrack, Louis‘ and Samedi‘s stories are interwoven to form a touching portrait of an extraordinary man and his son. SONG FROM THE FOREST is a modern epic film set between rainforest and skyscrapers.
Once Upon a Time in a Forest Far Away
Jay Singh
Author : Jay Singh
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329797499
Once Upon a Time in a Forest Far Away by Jay Singh Pdf
Gossip from the Forest
Sara Maitland
Author : Sara Maitland
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847085955
Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland Pdf
Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests were both the background and the source of the fairytales made famous by the Grimms and Hans Christian Andersen. Yet both forests and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons, from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring, to the muffled stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter. She camps with her son Adam, whose beautiful photographs are included in the book; she takes a barefoot walk through Epping Forest with Robert Macfarlane; she walks with a mushroom expert through an oak wood, and with a miner through the Forest of Dean. Maitland ends each chapter with a unique, imaginitive re-telling of a fairytale. Written with Maitland's wonderful clarity and conversational grace, Gossip from the Forest is a magical and unique blend of nature writing, history and imaginative fiction.
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
Author : Carrie Ryan
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375891977
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan Pdf
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power. And, when the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. Now, she must choose between her village and her future, between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death? [STAR] "A bleak but gripping story...Poignant and powerful."-Publishers Weekly, Starred "A postapocalyptic romance of the first order, elegantly written from title to last line."-Scott Westerfeld, author of the Uglies series and Leviathan "Intelligent, dark, and bewitching, The Forest of Hands and Teeth transitions effortlessly between horror and beauty. Mary's world is one that readers will not soon forget."-Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of City of Bones "Opening The Forest of Hands and Teeth is like cracking Pandora's box: a blur of darkness and a precious bit of hope pour out. This is a beautifully crafted, page-turning, powerful novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it."-Melissa Marr, bestselling author of Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange "Dark and sexy and scary. Only one of the Unconsecrated could put this book down."-Justine Larbalestier, author of How to Ditch Your Fairy
Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers
Nathaniel Tarn
Author : Nathaniel Tarn
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811217981
Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers by Nathaniel Tarn Pdf
Nathaniel Tarn's newest collection of poems, Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers, dives deep into the spiritual and physical sufferings of our global age. After a moving overture, the book unfolds in five sections: "Of the Perfected Angels," with its lucid meditation on Issenheim altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald; "Dying Trees," written out of the horrible loss of hundreds of thousands of trees throughout the American West in recent years; "War Stills," an engagement with the ongoing atrocities in Iraq; "Movement / North of the Java Sea," taking flight from Maui to Bali to Papua New Guinea; and the final section "Sarawak," snaking its way through the river and indigenous anguish of Borneo, where Tarn as poet-anthropologist surveyed the loss of forest lands and its effects on tribal peoples.
The Darkest Part of the Forest
Holly Black
Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316213059
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black Pdf
A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black. Set in the same world as The Cruel Prince! In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.... Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake. Until one day, he does.... As the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be. The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black's triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career.
Life in the Forest
Denise Levertov
Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811218414
Life in the Forest by Denise Levertov Pdf
Published in 1978, this is Levertov's most important work produced during the 70s.
Daughter of the Forest
Juliet Marillier
Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429913461
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier Pdf
Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill
Alpha Four
Author : Alpha Four
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1732149933
Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill by Alpha Four Pdf
Now available in four editions Hardcover with color illustrations: ISBN 978-1-7321499-0-8, paperback with color illustrations: ISBN 978-1-7321499-2-2, paperback with black and white illustrations: ISBN 978-1-7321499-3-9, and e-book: ISBN 978-1-7321499-1-5 To learn more and see all illustrations, please visit www.farforestscrolls.com Decades after invaders led by the White Wizard stormed across the Dark Sea and ravaged Verngaurd, the world is once again on the brink of war. Yet, this time intruders sling treachery as handily as weapons. Evil leaches its way across the land whispering of the destructive time of Na Cearcaill precisely as magic is waning and time-honored alliances are fracturing. Do the battered Knights have enough strength left in them to fight the treachery swirling within the coming storm?