White Feathers

Author : Bernd Heinrich
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781328604415

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White Feathers by Bernd Heinrich Pdf

The surprising, rich life of tree swallows in nesting season--with Heinrich's beautiful illustrations and photographs--by the acclaimed naturalist. Heinrich is sparked one early spring day by a question: Why does a pair of swallows in a nest-box close to his Maine cabin show an unvarying preference for white feathers--not easily available nearby--as nest lining? He notices, too, the extreme aggressiveness of "his" swallows toward some other swallows of their own kind. And he wonders, given swallows' reputation for feistiness, at the extraordinary tameness and close contact he experiences with his nesting birds. From the author of the beloved books Ravens in Winter and A Naturalist at Large, this richly engaging view of the lives of wild birds, as always with Heinrich, yields "marvelous, mind-altering" insight and discoveries. --Los Angeles Times

Author : Bernd Heinrich
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781328603517

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White Feathers by Bernd Heinrich Pdf

The surprising, rich life of tree swallows in nesting season—with Heinrich’s beautiful illustrations and photographs—by the acclaimed naturalist. Heinrich is sparked one early spring day by a question: Why does a pair of swallows in a nest-box close to his Maine cabin show an unvarying preference for white feathers—not easily available nearby—as nest lining? He notices, too, the extreme aggressiveness of “his” swallows toward some other swallows of their own kind. And he wonders, given swallows’ reputation for feistiness, at the extraordinary tameness and close contact he experiences with his nesting birds. From the author of the beloved books Ravens in Winter and A Naturalist at Large, this richly engaging view of the lives of wild birds, as always with Heinrich, yields “marvelous, mind-altering” insight and discoveries. —Los Angeles Times

Author : Susan Lanigan
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847177049

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White Feathers by Susan Lanigan Pdf

Two lives in danger – her lover's and her sister's. But she must choose only one. In 1913, young Irish emigrant Eva Downey is trapped in London with a remote father and hostile stepmother. When she is awarded a legacy from an old suffragette to attend a finishing school in Kent, she jumps at the chance. At the school, she finds kinship and later falls in love with her teacher Christopher Shandlin, her intellectual equal. But when war does break out, her fanatical and disapproving stepsister Grace forces a choice on Eva. She must present Shandlin, who refuses to fight, with a white feather of cowardice, or no money will be given for her sister Imelda's life-saving treatment in Switzerland. Caught in a dilemma, she chooses her sister over her lover, a decision which will have irrevocable consequences for both her and Christopher and haunt her for the rest of her life.

Author : Deborah Challinor
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743097298

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White Feathers by Deborah Challinor Pdf

The gripping second instalment to Tamar. In 1914, Tamar Murdoch's brothel-keeping days are behind her. Her life is one of ease and contentment at Kenmore, a prosperous estate in the Hawke's Bay, as storm clouds over Europe begin casting long shadows. In this gripping second instalment of Deborah Challinor's sweeping family saga, tamar's love for her children is sorely tested as one by one they are called, or driven, into the living hell of the First World War. During the Boer War, Joseph, her illegitimate eldest son, fought as a European, but this time he is determined to enlist in the Maori Battalion, despite his growing attraction for his childhood friend, Erin. As loyalties within the Murdoch clan are divided, and the war takes tamar and Andrew's only daughter far from her sheltered upbringing, the people and experiences their children encounter will shape the destiny of the Murdoch clan for generations to come.

Author : Tanya Talaga
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487002275

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Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga Pdf

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.

Author : Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142411981

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Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson Pdf

When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.

Author : James Stormonth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Science
ISBN : PRNC:32101058239342

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A Manual of Scientific Terms by James Stormonth Pdf

Author : Adele Carne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291936346

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White Feather by Adele Carne Pdf

Author : Emma Lila Fundaburk,Mary Douglass Fundaburk Foreman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817310776

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Sun Circles and Human Hands by Emma Lila Fundaburk,Mary Douglass Fundaburk Foreman Pdf

From utilitarian arrowheads to beautiful stone effigy pipes to ornately-carved shell disks, the photographs and drawings in Sun Circles and Human Hands present the archaeological record of the art and native crafts of the prehistoric southeastern Indians, painstakingly compiled in the 1950s by two sisters who traveled the eastern United States interviewing archaeologists and collectors and visiting the major repositories. Although research over the last 50 years has disproven many of the early theories reported in the text—which were not the editors' theories but those of the archaeologists of the day—the excellent illustrations of objects no longer available for examination have more than validated the lasting worth of this popular book.

Author : Christine Heinrichs
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780760349533

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The Backyard Field Guide to Chickens by Christine Heinrichs Pdf

Searching for chickens that best fit your needs? The Backyard Field Guide to Chickens can help, with desriptions of each breed's qualities, temperament, average egg production, and more.

Author : Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369400109

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The Four Feathers by Alfred Edward Woodley Mason Pdf

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A. E. W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title. In December 1901, Cornhill Magazine announced the title as one of two new serial stories to be published in the forthcoming year. Against the background of the Mahdist War, young Feversham disgraces himself by quitting the army, which others perceive as cowardice, symbolized by the four white feathers they give him. He redeems himself with acts of great courage and wins back the heart of the woman he loves.

Author : United States Tariff Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Feathers
ISBN : IND:30000091997639

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Bedding Feathers and Downs by United States Tariff Commission Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092653161

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The Court Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858029188723

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Current Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Poultry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924104562263

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The Poultry Monthly by Anonim Pdf