Swift Fox

Author : Rebecca Thomas
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773214498

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Swift Fox All Along by Rebecca Thomas Pdf

What does it mean to be Mi’kmaq? And if Swift Fox can’t find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox’s father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she’ll learn how to be Mi’kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that Mi’kmaq is who she is from her eyes to her toes, Swift Fox doesn’t understand what that means. Her family welcomes her with smiles and hugs, but when it’s time to smudge and everyone else knows how, Swift Fox feels even more like she doesn’t belong. Then she meets her cousin Sully and realizes that she’s not the only one who’s unsure—and she may even be the one to teach him something about what being Mi’kmaq means. Based on the author’s own experience, with striking illustrations by Maya McKibbin, Swift Fox All Along is a poignant story about identity and belonging that is at once personal and universally resonant.

Author : Ludwig N. Carbyn,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0889771545

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The Swift Fox by Ludwig N. Carbyn,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center Pdf

In 1998, biologists and endangered species experts met at an international symposium on swift foxes held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, to exchange information and identify the state-of-the-science of swift fox ecology and status in North America. Papers presented at the symposium, together with other written afterwards, are brought together in this peer-reviewed volume.

Author : Robert Gish
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0890967199

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Beautiful Swift Fox by Robert Gish Pdf

The American Southwest has assumed the status of a cultural icon over the last few decades, and one of the writers who helped it to do so was Erna Fergusson, named by the Hopis Beautiful Swift Fox. An Anglo American whose travel writing featured the multi-ethnicity of her region, she popularized the culture and landscapes of her native New Mexico and its surrounding states in a range of writing that prefigured the genre-defying art that has come to be called the New Journalism.Much has been written about New Mexico's remarkable Fergusson family, especially brother Harvey and his novels. But Erna Fergusson's literary career has been largely overlooked. An iconoclast at the forefront of the Southwest Renaissance movement, Erna gained a wide reputation beginning in the 1930s for her "written versions of the Southwest," which embraced the complexities of regional culture and sympathetically and intelligently portrayed the Indian and Mexican influences.Distinguished Southwestern writer Robert Franklin Gish assesses Fergussons's literary contributions and unlocks the inner workings of the prose stylist who operated at the interstices of genres. With his postmodern reappraisal of the creative nonfiction forms she used, Gish prompts readers to reconsider how they view the art of nonfiction writing. Gish argues persuasively that Fergusson's identity as a native New Mexican and the region's singular landscape informed the attitudes and values present in her art. He explores the ways her entrepreneurial stint as a New Mexico tour guide during the 1920s and 1930s shaped the organizational strategies for her writing. He considers thoughtfully her various forms of writing and how she used travelogue, journalistic report, popular history, and persuasive essay to elevate the Southwest to prominence. Gish shows her writing as highly evocative, descriptive, and metaphorical, defying the conventions of the nonfiction forms she used and paving the way for America's school of New Journalism.Beautiful Swift Fox is not strictly biography; nor does it, in a traditional sense, seek to explicate a body of work. Rather, like its subject, it bridges genres, offering a meditation on one Southwestern writer's sense of place.

Author : David Lawrence,Cyril Rioli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Australian football
ISBN : 0987420534

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Fox Swift by David Lawrence,Cyril Rioli Pdf

With all the latest information, including each team's strongest line-up, a recruitment assessment, position ratings, coaching history, draw analysis and, most importantly, end of season predictions, The Punter's Guide to the 2013 AFL Season has every part of the game covered -- from a punter's point of view. This is the ideal book if you want to take out first prize in the office tipping competition and win on the punt.

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781780228433

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The Hedgehog And The Fox by Isaiah Berlin Pdf

Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword. 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply used it, without implying anything about the true meaning of the words, to outline a fundamental distinction that exists in mankind, between those who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things (foxes) and those who relate everything to a central all-embracing system (hedgehogs). When applied to Tolstoy, the image illuminates a paradox of his philosophy of history, and shows why he was frequently misunderstood by his contemporaries and critics. Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but he believed in being a hedgehog.

Author : Christopher Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521002834

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The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift by Christopher Fox Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift s life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift s writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift s vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises new questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.

Author : James M. Pitsula
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 088977210X

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New World Dawning by James M. Pitsula Pdf

Author : Barbara Reid
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Animals
ISBN : 0545989981

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Fox Walked Alone by Barbara Reid Pdf

Fox woke up. Slipped out of his lair. Looked. Listened. Sniffed. There was something in the air Usually Fox sleeps in the day and hunts alone at night, but today something strange is happening. Two by two, different animals pass by - mice and tortoises, leopards, wolves, and birds. Fox decides to follow along on this mysterious journey. It leads to a boat resting on a dusty plain - and to someone Fox never expected. A beautiful retelling of the story of Noah's Ark, sure to please.

Author : John James Audubon,John Bachman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Science
ISBN : NYPL:33433011578741

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The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon,John Bachman Pdf

Author : J. David Henry
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781588343390

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Red Fox by J. David Henry Pdf

In this engaging introduction to the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), J. David Henry recounts his years of field research on this flame-colored predator. With its catlike whiskers, teeth, and paws, as well as vertical-slit pupils, the North American red fox not only resembles but often behaves like a feline, especially when hunting. Probing the reasons for these similarities, Henry reveals the behavior and ecology of a species that thrives from the edge of suburbia to the cold northern tundra.

Author : Catherine Raven
Publisher : Spiegel & Grau
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1954118112

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Fox and I by Catherine Raven Pdf

After receiving her PhD in biology, Raven lived in an isolated cottage in Montana, teaching remotely and leading field classes in Yellowstone National Park. Her only regular visitor was a fox, with whom she developed a friendship and from whom she learned about growth, loss, and belonging.

Author : Robert Munsch
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773211510

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David's Father by Robert Munsch Pdf

Julie thinks her new neighbors must be very scary because all the stuff being moved into their house is enormous. Then she meets David and finds out that he's just a normal, regular boy. But when David's father calls him for supper the sound makes Julie jump in the air, run in a circle three times, run home and lock herself in her room until it is time for breakfast the next day. Could David's father be a giant? A newly designed Classic Munsch picture book introduces this tall tale about facing your fears to a new generation of young readers.

Author : Adele Brand
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780062966124

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The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand Pdf

Discover the hidden world of the fox, as beautifully revealed by an acclaimed ecologist who has studied foxes for two decades across four continents “An ode to this familiar yet mysterious creature. … The sight of foxes can lift Brand's prose into poetry. ... By turns lyrical, salty, funny and scholarly.” —New York Times Book Review The fox. For thousands of years myth and folklore have celebrated its cunning intelligence. Today the red fox is the nature’s most populous carnivore, its dancing orange tail a common sight in backyards. Yet who is this wild neighbor, truly? How do we negotiate this uneasy new chapter of an ancient relationship? Join British ecologist Adele Brand on a journey to discover the surprising secrets of the fabled fox, the familiar yet enigmatic creature that has adapted to the human world with astonishing—some say, unsettling—success. Brand has studied foxes for twenty years across four continents—from the Yucatán rainforest to India’s remote Thar Desert, from subarctic Canada to metropolitan London. Her observations have convinced her that the fox is arguably the most modern of all wildlife, uniquely suited to survival in the rapidly expanding urban/wild interface. Blending cutting-edge science, cultural anthropology, and intimate personal storytelling drawn from her own remarkable fieldwork, The Hidden World of the Fox is Brand’s rich and revelatory portrait of the extraordinary animal she has devoted her life to understanding.

Author : Canadian Wildlife Service,Richard H. Russell,Ludwig N. Carbyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Foxes
ISBN : 066220445X

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Swift Fox by Canadian Wildlife Service,Richard H. Russell,Ludwig N. Carbyn Pdf

Author : José R. Castelló
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691176857

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Canids of the World by José R. Castelló Pdf

The most complete and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world’s canids This stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide covers every species of the world’s canids, from the Gray Wolf of North America to the dholes of Asia, from African jackals to the South American Bush Dog. It features more than 150 superb color plates depicting every kind of canid and detailed facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, morphology, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and conservation status in the wild. The book also includes distribution maps and tips on where to observe each species, making Canids of the World the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to these intriguing and spectacular mammals. Covers every species and subspecies of canid Features more than 150 color plates with more than 600 photos from around the globe Depicts species in similar poses for quick and easy comparisons Describes key identification features, habitat, behavior, reproduction, and much more Draws on the latest taxonomic research Includes distribution maps and tips on where to observe each species The ideal field companion and a delight for armchair naturalists