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Rat Island

Author : William Stolzenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781608193318

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Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other remote islands around the world, a massive-and massively controversial-wildlife rescue mission is under way. Islands, making up just 3 percent of Earth's landmass, harbor more than half of its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by mainland predators-rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders, academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with rat poison. Rat Island reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today's conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy. Touring exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.

Rat Island

Author : Stu Duval
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
ISBN : 144254130X

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Rat Island by Stu Duval Pdf

Tam is a cabin boy aboard a pirate ship, caught between the dreaded Captain Ezekiel who wants him to spy on his shipmates, and the crew who want him to join their mutiny. Tam has a terrible choice to make: who should he stay loyal to? First person recount. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

The rambles of a rat, by A.L.O.E.

Author : Charlotte Maria Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600058155

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Treasured Islands

Author : Peter Naldrett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781844865949

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Treasured Islands by Peter Naldrett Pdf

Islands represent adventure, mystery, wilderness and escapism. Surrounded by water, they're somewhere to run away to, to be marooned on, to find a paradise... The British Isles includes some 194 inhabited islands (out of a total of over 6,000), ranging from remote lost worlds to famous and popular holiday spots. And Treasured Islands includes them all, in one enticing package. This wonderfully comprehensive and inspiring guide starts off with a Best of... section, highlighting the ten best islands for foodies, wildlife, adrenaline-junkies and pure escapism. Then, region by region, the author explores the UK's most wonderful islands, including: Shetlands, Fair Isle, Orkneys, Outer Hebrides, Inner Hebrides, Isle of Arran Lindisfarne, Isle of Man, Walney Island Anglesey, Pembrokeshire Island Foulness and Canvey Islands Isle of Sheppey, Lundy Isle of Wight, Isles of Scilly, Channel Islands, Islands of Ireland Tidal Islands (to include Burgh Island, Holy Island and St Michael's Mount) Inland Islands (to include Eel Pie, Derwent Isle and Peel Island in the Lake District) Remote Islands Illustrated with beautiful colour photography, the text ensures you won't miss out on must-see attractions, wildlife and natural features, local food specialties, sporting activities, best places to stay and eat, and all-important transport links to and from the mainland, and other nearby islands. For some light relief, there are interesting historical and cultural anecdotes woven through, giving a fascinating insight into the way of life on these sometimes remote settlements.

Geological Survey Professional Paper

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Geology
ISBN : OSU:32435068724889

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Placing Names

Author : Merrick Lex Berman,Ruth Mostern,Humphrey Southall
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253022561

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Placing Names by Merrick Lex Berman,Ruth Mostern,Humphrey Southall Pdf

Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age.

Geological Survey Professional Paper

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007750388

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Geological Survey Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Dictionary of Alaska Place Names

Author : Donald J. Orth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Alaska
ISBN : UOM:39015092889537

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Dictionary of Alaska Place Names by Donald J. Orth Pdf

Each entry conforms to principles of U.S. Board on Geographic Names and lists location, brief history and meaning of name.

The Official Overstreet Identification and Price Guide to Indian Arrowheads

Author : Robert M. Overstreet
Publisher : House of Collectibles
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Arrowheads
ISBN : 9780375723124

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The Official Overstreet Identification and Price Guide to Indian Arrowheads by Robert M. Overstreet Pdf

Price guide to Indian arrowheads. Offers the actual-size, pictures, giving collectors an enormous advantage in identifying and valuing their arrowheads.

The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1841

Author : Various,Various Authors
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108053914

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The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1841 by Various,Various Authors Pdf

The 1841 Nautical Magazine includes reports from China during the First Opium War, and James Ross' description of Mount Erebus.

The Nautical Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : OXFORD:555014671

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