Pygmy

Author : Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307373724

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Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk Pdf

“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.” Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates Americans with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of a xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified.

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780063062955

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Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende Pdf

The final installment of Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy of the journeys of Jaguar and Eagle soars with radiant settings, spirits, beings, and the transformation of an extraordinary friendship, as Alexander and Nadia embark on mission in Kenya that begins as a search for elephants and ends up exposing a system of injustices. Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When International Geographic commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they head—with Nadia Santos and the magazine's photography crew—to the blazing, red plains of Kenya. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches their camp in search of his companions who have mysteriously disappeared. Kate, Alexander, Nadia, and their team, agreeing to aid the rescue, enlist the help of a local pilot to lead them to the swampy forests of Ngoubé. There they discover a clan of Pygmies who unveil a harsh and surprising world of corruption, slavery, and poaching. Alexander and Nadia, entrusting the magical strengths of Jaguar and Eagle, their totemic animal spirits, launch a spectacular and precarious struggle to restore freedom and return leadership to its rightful hands.

Author : Jean Pierre Hallet,Alex Pelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Human beings
ISBN : OCLC:1982696

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Pygmy Kitabu by Jean Pierre Hallet,Alex Pelle Pdf

Author : Louis Sarno
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595347497

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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.

Author : Robert E. Wells
Publisher : Av2 by Weigl
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Atoms
ISBN : 1619131587

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What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells Pdf

Originally published: Morton Grove, Ill.: Albert Whitman, 1995.

Author : Phillip T. Robinson,Gabriella L. Flacke,Knut M. Hentschel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190611866

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The Pygmy Hippo Story by Phillip T. Robinson,Gabriella L. Flacke,Knut M. Hentschel Pdf

Though the pygmy hippopotamus has been designated as a flagship species of West African forests (meaning that by raising conservation efforts for a single species, an entire ecological region could benefit), very little research has been published on the animal. They are solitary, nocturnal, and highly evasive, and until recent developments in "camera trap" technology, they were considered the least-photographed large mammal species in the world. The information currently available on this endangered species is scattered, limited, redundant, and often inaccurate, and no major volume exists as a resource for those interested in the conservation effort for the species, until now. Phillip Robinson and his coauthors provide a treatment of the natural history, biology, and ecology of the pygmy hippo, along with a discussion of the rare animal's taxonomic niche and a summary of the research initiatives involving it up to this point. The authors show the ways in which the pygmy hippo has come into contact with people in West African countries, both in terms of ecological and cultural impact. This creature has been the subject of local folktales, and is treated as almost mythic in some regions. Information on issues related to captivity, breeding, and zoos is provided. The book is heavily illustrated with original photographs and anatomic drawings. The project should be of use to conservation biologists, zoologists and natural history readers, and will be the definitive single-volume account of an animal that the scientific community has designated to be ecologically significant to West Africa.

Author : Robert Grant Haliburton
Publisher : Arbuthnot
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Dwarfs
ISBN : HARVARD:32044042059949

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How a Race of Pygmies was Found in North Africa and Spain by Robert Grant Haliburton Pdf

Author : Robert C. Bailey
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703241

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The Behavioral Ecology of Efe Pygmy Men in the Ituri Forest, Zaire by Robert C. Bailey Pdf

Rev. version of author's doctoral dissertation which was completed in 1985.

Author : Jessica Robe
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781398428904

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A Little Pygmy's Big Dream by Jessica Robe Pdf

It’s not easy being the smallest elephant in the herd, especially when you have the biggest dream! In the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, there lives a tiny pygmy elephant who longs to leave the forest floor and see the world from up high. In pursuit of his dream, he seeks advice from an orangutan, a black-banded squirrel, and a toucan. Each one of them laugh at his efforts, dismissing his dream. But he doesn’t give up hope! Look inside this narrative poem to see just what happens when this little elephant follows his dream, and eventually realizes he always had the ability to achieve his dreams all on his own, just the way he is.

Author : Isaac Bacirongo,Michael Wallace Nest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Pygmies
ISBN : 192504842X

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Still a Pygmy by Isaac Bacirongo,Michael Wallace Nest Pdf

Still a Pygmy is a story of love, pride and prejudice that traces the journey of BaTembo Pygmy Isaac Bacirongo from the forests of Central Africa, through the brutality of dictatorship and war, to arrival and settlement in Australia's melting pot. Isaac's inimitable style and voice draw readers into the heart of this memoir, his relationship with his wife, who survived his mother's attempts to kill her and who helped Isaac through experiences of appalling violence. It is full of warmth, wit and wise insights about life -especially family life and child-rearing. Isaac Bacirongo grew up as a Pygmy hunter-gatherer in the Congo. However, when his Papa left the forest to find work, Isaac went to missionary school, where he fell in love with scientific reason and rejected his mission teachings. He courted and wed Josephine, a 'town girl', whom his mother hated. Complaining that her new daughter-in-law would not be able to catch crabs or collect firewood, she engaged a witchdoctor in an attempt to kill her. Isaac and Josephine moved to the city, and he became a prosperous businessman. Isaac become a community leader involved in the fight for Pygmy rights, but he was imprisoned for his activism by the brutal regime that controls Eastern Congo. He bribed his way out of jail and fled to Kenya with his wife and 10 children in 2000. there he becomes an interpreter on a corruption investigation into the UNHCR. Granted a humanitarian visa, the family resettled as refugees in Sydney, but life started to unravel under the pressure of domestic violence, his children's assimilation and an Australian workplace that tested Isaac's African values. Although this memoir is Isaac's personal story, unique in its perspective on life as a Pygmy, it is also a universal story about the tragedies and challenges faced by many refugees and migrants, and their indomitable spirit they display in rising above challenges and confronting change to touch and transform the new communities they join.

Author : Phillip T. Robinson,Gabriella L. Flacke,Knut M. Hentschel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190627874

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The Pygmy Hippo Story by Phillip T. Robinson,Gabriella L. Flacke,Knut M. Hentschel Pdf

Though the pygmy hippopotamus has been designated as a flagship species of West African forests (meaning that by raising conservation efforts for a single species, an entire ecological region could benefit), very little research has been published on the animal. They are solitary, nocturnal, and highly evasive, and until recent developments in "camera trap" technology, they were considered the least-photographed large mammal species in the world. The information currently available on this endangered species is scattered, limited, redundant, and often inaccurate, and no major volume exists as a resource for those interested in the conservation effort for the species, until now. Phillip Robinson and his coauthors provide a treatment of the natural history, biology, and ecology of the pygmy hippo, along with a discussion of the rare animal's taxonomic niche and a summary of the research initiatives involving it up to this point. The authors show the ways in which the pygmy hippo has come into contact with people in West African countries, both in terms of ecological and cultural impact. This creature has been the subject of local folktales, and is treated as almost mythic in some regions. Information on issues related to captivity, breeding, and zoos is provided. The book is heavily illustrated with original photographs and anatomic drawings. The project should be of use to conservation biologists, zoologists and natural history readers, and will be the definitive single-volume account of an animal that the scientific community has designated to be ecologically significant to West Africa.

Author : Randall L. Susman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475700824

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The Pygmy Chimpanzee by Randall L. Susman Pdf

Historical Remarks Bearing on the Discovery of Pan paniscus Whether by accident or by design, it was most fortunate that Robert M. Yerkes, the dean of American primatologists, should have been the first scientist to describe the characteristics of a pygmy chimpanzee, which he acquired in August 1923, when he purchased him and a young female companion from a dealer in New York. The chimpanzees came from somewhere in the eastern region of the Belgian Congo and Yerkes esti mated the male's age at about 4 years. He called this young male Prince Chim (and named his female, com mon chimpanzee counterpart Panzee) (Fig. I). In his popular book, Almost Human, Yerkes (1925) states that in all his experiences as a student of animal behavior, "I have never met an animal the equal of this young chimp . . . in approach to physical perfection, alertness, adaptability, and agreeableness of disposition" (Yerkes, 1925, p. 244). Moreover, It would not be easy to find two infants more markedly different in bodily traits, temperament, intelligence, vocalization and their varied expressions in action, than Chim and Panzee. Here are just a few points of contrast. His eyes were black and in his dark face lacked contrast and seemed beady, cold, expressionless. Hers were brown, soft, and full of emotional value, chiefly because of their color and the contrast with her light complexion.

Author : Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:49015000044447

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African Pygmies by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Pdf

Author : Joan Mark
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803282508

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The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies by Joan Mark Pdf

Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904–53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community. He modeled his camp on the “dude ranches” of the American West, taking in paying guests while running a medical clinic and occasionally offering legal aid to the local people, and assumed the role of intermediary between locals and visitors, including Colin M. Turnbull, author of the classic Forest People. Mark describes Putnam’s mercurial relations with family and with his African and American wives—and follows him to his sad and violent end. She places Patrick Putnam within the context of three different anthropological traditions and examines his contribution as an expert on pygmies.

Author : Barry S. Hewlett
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0472082035

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Intimate Fathers by Barry S. Hewlett Pdf

This systematic study of non-Western fathers' roles in infant care focuses on the Aka pygmies of central Africa