The River Whale

Author : Sita Brahmachari
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1510109145

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The River Whale by Sita Brahmachari Pdf

A beautiful new short story for World Book Day 2021, from the bestselling author of Where the River Runs Gold. Immy has always loved wild swimming; one day, she hopes to become a marine biologist. Tomorrow is the first step towards that goal - completing her entry level diving certificate. But her plans for a good night's sleep are ruined by a strange and vivid dream of a distressed whale in the river. At school she tries to shake it off, but discovers that her nightmare has leaked into reality. Immy and her trusty friend Cosmo must head for the Thames on a mission to save the trapped river whale. Can Immy use her skills to release it from the rubbish-filled nets it's caught in and guide it home? Told in a mixture of free verse and prose, this is the beautiful new short adventure from Sita Brahmachari.

Author : Sita Brahmachari
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1510109153

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The River Whale by Sita Brahmachari Pdf

Author : Sita Brahmachari
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781510105461

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Where the River Runs Gold by Sita Brahmachari Pdf

*Sita Brahmachari is a World Book Day author for 2021 with gorgeous short story, The River Whale!* Two children must risk everything to escape their fate and find the impossible . . . bold adventure, timely climate change themes and breathtaking writing, from award-winning author Sita Brahmachari. 'Lavishly written and full of love of the natural world.' - Sunday Times Shifa and her brother, Themba, live in Kairos City with their father, Nabil. The few live in luxury, whilst the millions like them crowd together in compounds, surviving on meagre rations and governed by Freedom Fields - the organisation that looks after you, as long as you opt in. The bees have long disappeared; instead children must labour on farms, pollinating crops by hand so that the nation can eat. The farm Shifa and Themba are sent to is hard and cruel. Themba won't survive there and Shifa comes up with a plan to break them out. But they have no idea where they are - their only guide is a map drawn from the ramblings of a stranger. The journey ahead is fraught with danger, but Shifa is strong and knows to listen to her instincts - to let love guide them home. The freedom of a nation depends on it . . . Endorsed by Amnesty International.

Author : Ron Mercier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0966852702

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Dance the River Whale by Ron Mercier Pdf

The discovery of Indian ancestry by a young French-Canadian gives his life new meaning. It happens to Tom Têtreault of Massachusetts, an alcoholic until his past is revealed to him by his dying grandfather.

Author : Fábio Zuker
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781571317537

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The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon by Fábio Zuker Pdf

As the Amazon burns, Fábio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self-determination, and kinship with the land. In 2007, a seven-ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajós River, hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For days, environmentalists, journalists, and locals followed the lost whale, hoping to guide her back to the ocean, but ultimately proved unable to save her. Ten years later, journalist Fábio Zuker travels to the state of Pará, to the town known as “the place where the whale appeared,” which developers are now eyeing for mining, timber, and soybean cultivation. In these essays, Zuker shares intimate stories of life in the rainforest and its surrounding cities during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation. As a group of Venezuelan migrants wait at a bus station in Manaus, looking for a place more stable than home, an elder in Alter do Chão becomes the first Indigenous person in Brazil to die from COVID-19 after years of fighting for the rights and recognition of the Borari people. The subjects Zuker interviews are often torn between ties with their ancestral territories and the push for capitalist gain; The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon captures the friction between their worlds and the resilience of movements for autonomy, self-definition, and respect for the land that nourishes us.

Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525521877

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The River by Peter Heller Pdf

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fiery tour de force... I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." -Alison Borden, The Denver Post From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival.

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children and animals
ISBN : 1406315591

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This Morning I Met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo Pdf

At sunrise, young Michael spots a whale on the shores of the Thames and thinks he must be dreaming. But the creature is real and it has a message for him - one that only an open-minded child can deliver to the rest of the world.

Author : Anne Siberell
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0140547924

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Whale in the Sky by Anne Siberell Pdf

From the legends of Pacific Northwest Indians, a tale of Thunderbird told in colored woodcuts.

Author : Lynda Mapes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Animal intelligence
ISBN : 1680513265

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Orca by Lynda Mapes Pdf

The history--and future--of one of the sea's greatest mammals

Author : Douglas Carlton Abrams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439165546

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Eye of the Whale by Douglas Carlton Abrams Pdf

Filled with “breathtaking scenes” and “vivid” (Publishers Weekly) imagery, national bestselling author Douglas Carlton Abrams’s riveting ecological thriller blends shockingly true facts with a powerful narrative that pulls readers into a dangerous race through a majestic and mysterious world. Dedicated scientist Elizabeth McKay has spent almost a decade cracking the code of humpback whale communication. Their song, the most complex in nature, may in fact reveal unimaginable secrets about the animal world. When a humpback whale swims up the Sacramento River with a strange and unprecedented song, Elizabeth must decipher its meaning in order to save the whale and ultimately much more. But as her work captures the media’s interest, powerful forces emerge to stop her from revealing the animal’s secrets. Soon, Elizabeth is forced to decide if her discoveries are worth losing her marriage, her career, and possibly her life. Working closely with leading scientists for his extensive research into humpback whales and the harrowing ecological challenges they face today, national bestselling author Douglas Carlton Abrams has created a unique and timeless story that will transform readers and their relationship with the fragile world in which we live.

Author : Stephanie Cruz
Publisher : Big Tomato Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780979123320

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Delta & Dawn by Stephanie Cruz Pdf

A mother and baby humpback whale stray from the ocean into San Francisco Bay, up the Sacramento River, and with help from friendly humans find their way home again.

Author : Pierre Béland
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSD:31822020644613

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Beluga by Pierre Béland Pdf

A very powerful chronicle of the St. Lawrence River Beluga whales which were hunted to near extinction until given legal protection in 1979, and are now quite literally dying from pollution. Beland (senior research scientist, St. Lawrence National institute of Ecotoxicology) describes the Beluga history, how they live now, the pollution threats to them, and ways in which this kind of tragedy can be prevented in the future, although it looks like it's too late for the Beluga; thus the volume also serves as their elegy. Includes color photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061807688

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Fluke by Christopher Moore Pdf

“Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)...[H]e writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It’s not a new problem; in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question—and soon. Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he’s losing his mind. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could’ve sworn he saw the words “Bite Me” scrawled across the whale’s tail. . .

Author : Wendy Tokuda,Richard Hall
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0785796274

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Humphrey the Lost Whale by Wendy Tokuda,Richard Hall Pdf

Describes how a migrating humpback whale mistakenly entered the San Francisco Bay in 1985 and swam sixty-four miles inland before being led back to the sea by people concerned for his welfare.

Author : Jason Michael Colby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780190673093

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Orca by Jason Michael Colby Pdf

Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and the author's own family history, this is the definitive story of how the feared and despised "killer" became the beloved "orca", and what that has meant for our relationship with the ocean and its creatures