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The Raven's Gift

Author : Jon Turk
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429964708

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The Raven's Gift by Jon Turk Pdf

Noted scientist and kayak adventurer undertakes a journey of spiritual healing Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn and paddled across the Pacific Ocean to retrace the voyages of ancient people. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the realm of the spiritual. In a remote Siberian village, Turk met an elderly Koryak shaman named Moolynaut who invoked the help of a Spirit Raven to mend his fractured pelvis. When the healing was complete, he was able to walk without pain. Turk, finding no rational explanation, sought understanding by traversing the frozen tundra where Moolynaut was born, camping with bands of reindeer herders, and recording stories of their lives and spirituality. Framed by high adventure across the vast and forbidding Siberian landscape, The Raven's Gift creates a vision of natural and spiritual realms interwoven by one man's awakening.

The Raven's Gift

Author : Don Rearden
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921922862

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The Raven's Gift by Don Rearden Pdf

A terrifying post-apocalyptic thriller from an exciting new talent, that will have you gripped until the very end Set in the tundra of an isolated Alaskan community, The Raven's Gift combines the spare, dark horror of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and the pageturning action of John Marsden's Tomorrow, When the War Began The author has lived amongst the Yupik people most of his life and writes from personal experiences of the unforgiving landscapes of remote Alaska 'The Raven's Gift has a winning plot, characters we've never met before, and intriguing details of a world most of us will never venture to—creating a read that opens our eyes and finds the fault lines of a heart in one breathless sitting.' Jodi Picoult 'Rearden has created a kind of allegory for a people and place at risk, a generous and honest portrait of Yup'ik communities. His Alaska is one you won't yet have seen.' David Vann Early reading copies available

Gifts of the Crow

Author : John Marzluff,Tony Angell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439198742

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Gifts of the Crow by John Marzluff,Tony Angell Pdf

A University of Washington professor of wildlife science taps the findings of his extraordinary research into crow intelligence to offer insight into their ability to make tools and respond to environmental challenges, explaining how they engage in human-like behaviors from giving gifts and seeking revenge to playing and experiencing dreams.

The Raven's Gift

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618011711

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The Raven's Gift by Anonim Pdf

Using linoleum block prints, Dupre follows the difficult journey of two men in Greenland.

Mark of the Raven (The Ravenwood Saga Book #1)

Author : Morgan L. Busse
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493416165

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Mark of the Raven (The Ravenwood Saga Book #1) by Morgan L. Busse Pdf

Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather information or to assassinate. As she discovers her family's dark secret, Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy--a legacy that supports her people--or seeking the true reason behind her family's gift. Her dilemma comes to a head when she is tasked with assassinating the one man who can bring peace to the nations, but who will also bring about the downfall of her own house. One path holds glory and power, and will solidify her position as Lady of Ravenwood. The other path holds shame and execution. Which will she choose? And is she willing to pay the price for the path chosen?

Raven Brings the Light

Author : Roy Henry Vickers,Robert Budd
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550176612

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Raven Brings the Light by Roy Henry Vickers,Robert Budd Pdf

In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who keeps the light in a box. By transforming himself into a pine needle, clever Weget tricks the Chief and escapes with the daylight back down to Earth. Vividly portrayed through the art of Roy Henry Vickers, Weget's story has been passed down for generations. The tale has been traced back at least 3,000 years by archeologists who have found images of Weget's journey in petroglyphs on the Nass and Skeena rivers. This version of the story originates from one told to the author by Chester Bolton, Chief of the Ravens, from the village of Kitkatla around 1975.

The Book of Raven

Author : Angus Hyland,Caroline Roberts
Publisher : Laurence King
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Animals in art
ISBN : 1786277018

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The Book of Raven by Angus Hyland,Caroline Roberts Pdf

Corvids play an outsize role in the human imagination. We keep ravens in towers, emblazon rooks on banners, find crows in the constellations and make sure to salute solitary magpies. We also see our own behaviour mirrored in this diverse family of birds, who are tricksters and thieves as well as problem-solvers and gift-givers. This beautifully designed book showcases the visual and literary life of the corvid, from Norse legends to Game of Thrones. It includes beautiful and darkly seductive photographs and paintings as well as texts and poems in which they play a starring role and information about the traits that make them so intriguing to us.

Make Prayers to the Raven

Author : Richard K. Nelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226767857

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Make Prayers to the Raven by Richard K. Nelson Pdf

"Nelson spent a year among the Koyukon people of western Alaska, studying their intimate relationship with animals and the land. His chronicle of that visit represents a thorough and elegant account of the mystical connection between Native Americans and the natural world."—Outside "This admirable reflection on the natural history of the Koyukon River drainage in Alaska is founded on knowledge the author gained as a student of the Koyukon culture, indigenous to that region. He presents these Athapascan views of the land—principally of its animals and Koyukon relationships with those creatures—together with a measured account of his own experiences and doubts. . . . For someone in search of a native American expression of 'ecology' and natural history, I can think of no better place to begin than with this work."—Barry Lopez, Orion Nature Quarterly "Far from being a romantic attempt to pass on the spiritual lore of Native Americans for a quick fix by others, this is a very serious ethnographic study of some Alaskan Indians in the Northern Forest area. . . . He has painstakingly regarded their views of earth, sky, water, mammals and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. He does admire their love of nature and spirit. Those who see the world through his eyes using their eyes will likely come away with new respect for the boreal forest and those who live with it and in it, not against it."—The Christian Century "In Make Prayers to the Raven Nelson reveals to us the Koyukon beliefs and attitudes toward the fauna that surround them in their forested habitat close to the lower Yukon. . . . Nelson's presentation also gives rich insights into the Koyukon subsistence cycle through the year and into the hardships of life in this northern region. The book is written with both brain and heart. . . . This book represents a landmark: never before has the integration of American Indians with their environment been so well spelled out."—Ake Hultkrantz, Journal of Forest History

Ravens in Winter

Author : Bernd Heinrich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476794563

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Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich Pdf

Presents a detailed investigation into the feeding behavior of ravens during four winters in Maine and comes up with several unexpected conclusions.

Last Comes the Raven

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544146709

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Last Comes the Raven by Italo Calvino Pdf

“Calvino . . . managed effortlessly what no author in English could quite claim: his novels and stories and fables were both classically modernist and giddily postmodern, embracing both experiment and tradition, at once conceptual and humane, intimate and mythic.” — Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection take place in a World War II–era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities. A trio of gluttonous burglars invades a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In the title story, a compact masterpiece of shifting perspectives, a panicked soldier tries to keep his wits—and his life—when he faces off against a young partisan with a loaded rifle and miraculous aim. Select stories from Last Comes the Raven have been published in translation, but the collection as a whole has never appeared in English. This volume, including several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein, is an important addition to Calvino's legacy.

In the Company of Crows and Ravens

Author : John M. Marzluff,Tony Angell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300135268

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In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M. Marzluff,Tony Angell Pdf

“Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”—from the Preface From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow culture, ecology, and evolution as well. John Marzluff and Tony Angell examine the often surprising ways that crows and humans interact. The authors contend that those interactions reflect a process of “cultural coevolution.” They offer a challenging new view of the human-crow dynamic—a view that may change our thinking not only about crows but also about ourselves. Featuring more than 100 original drawings, the book takes a close look at the influences people have had on the lives of crows throughout history and at the significant ways crows have altered human lives. In the Company of Crows and Ravens illuminates the entwined histories of crows and people and concludes with an intriguing discussion of the crow-human relationship and how our attitudes toward crows may affect our cultural trajectory.

The Raven Queen's Harem

Author : Angel Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1093138246

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The Raven Queen's Harem by Angel Lawson Pdf

I never thought I'd move to New York. I certainly never expected to live in a mansion, rent free, with five super hot roommates. But none of those things surprised me as much as discovering the truth about my destiny, the revelation of the ancient power flowing through my veins and how it changes my life. I am the Raven Queen. Come meet my guardians. This is the complete Raven Queen's Harem a reverse harem paranormal romance series! No wait! It's all here! Dive in today! Raven's Mark Ebony Rising Black Magic Obsidian Fire Onyx Eclipse Midnight's End

Raven's Bride

Author : Elizabeth Crook
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307833822

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Raven's Bride by Elizabeth Crook Pdf

In 1829, Sam Houston was the thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee, a “beautiful…imperious giant genius of a man,” whose political horizons seemed limitless. The marriage of this charismatic, ambitious statesman to twenty-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of a prominent landholder, seemed to form the perfect social foundation on which Houston would build his glittering career. But just eleven weeks after the wedding, Eliza suddenly and inexplicably left her new husband, creating a scandal that caused the governor to resign his office in disgrace and embark on an exile that would ultimately deliver him to Texas, and a destiny even grander and more improbable than anyone could have imagined. Through decades of rumor and speculation, Sam Houston and Eliza Allen never revealed the source of their unhappiness, and carried the secret with them to their graves. The Raven’s Bride is a brilliantly original novel that unravels this dark romantic mystery while illuminating a vivid and fascinating moment in America’s past. In these pages, Sam Houston is presented as he must have been—a heroic figure (called the Raven by the Cherokee), vain, flamboyant, magnetic, his outsized personality fueled by a desperate need for love. And Eliza Allen is his match: a prideful, magnificent young woman, both drawn to and disturbed by her husband’s grand aspirations. With the investigative acuity of a historian and the profound empathy of a gifted novelist, Elizabeth Crook has created an enthralling portrait of these star-crossed lovers and the vibrant, restless world that brought them together. Richly detailed and splendidly imagined, The Raven’s Bride turns a baffling historical conundrum into a complex and deeply affecting love story.

The Raven's Revenge

Author : Kevin Sands
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534484603

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The Raven's Revenge by Kevin Sands Pdf

Christopher, Tom, and Sally engage in a dangerous cat and mouse game with the Raven as Christopher attempts to finally unmask him.

The Raven

Author : Lou Reed
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802199379

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The Raven by Lou Reed Pdf

The legendary musician’s distinctive artistic take on Edgar Allan Poe includes “some of the most personal lyrics of his career” (Rolling Stone). One of the most influential and innovative recording artists of the past three decades, Lou Reed has always offered a shrewd view of life in the big city in all its colors. It is no surprise, then, that he considers Edgar Allan Poe a spiritual forefather. In The Raven, Reed immerses himself in Poe’s enigmatic world and sets out to reimagine his work to mesmerizing effect. In 2001 Lou Reed, legendary theater director Robert Wilson, and an all-star cast presented the musical POEtry at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Reed’s subsequent studio adaptation, The Raven, has been hailed as one of his more daring and challenging albums. Here, accompanied by photographs by the acclaimed artist and director Julian Schnabel, is the definitive text of the CD release. The Raven includes Reed's distinctive takes on Poe’s most celebrated works, as well as song lyrics written for the musical. It is a fascinating meeting between a dark chronicler of the twentieth century and his nineteenth-century counterpart; the work of one iconoclastic genius offering a haunting exploration of another.