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Author: Sharon Watson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-05-07
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1387783904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLlamas took us on an adventure of a life time. This is not a 'how to' book but a book of the adventures and lessons we learned and the joys of owning llamas. Included are stories that made an impact on our learning experience and our relationship with these unique creatures. Things that worked and things that didn't.
Author: Sharon Watson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-05-25
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 138783861X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLlamas took us on an adventure of a life time. this is not a 'how to' book but a book of the adventures and lessons we learned and the joys of owning llamas. Included are stories that made an impact on our learning experience and our relationship with these unique creatures. Things that worked and things that didn't. I have also included some llama facts and interesting articles about llamas.
Author: Julia Barnes
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780836862225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the jobs camels and llamas do as domesticated animals, from guarding flocks of sheep to carrying goods and people.
Author: Ruth Janette Ruck
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2020-09-29
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0571363202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE MONTH* My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows: this rediscovered gem tells the charming tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever (with a foreword by John Lewis-Stempel). Things llamas like: Snaffling cherry brandy, Easter eggs, and the Radio Times. Fluttering movie star eyelashes at surprised visitors. Curling up in 'tea-cosy' position by the fire. Orbiting, helicoptering, and oompahing. Humming along to classical music. Locking victims in the lavatory. Things llamas dislike: Having toenails trimmed by a visiting circus. Being adopted mother to an orphaned lamb. Invitations to star on Blue Peter. Accidentally swimming. Snowdonia's rainfall. The dark. Ruth Ruck's family live on a Welsh mountain farm, no strangers to cow pats on the carpet and nesting hens in the larder. When dark days strike, they embark on a farming experiment to cheer them all up - but raising a baby llama proves more of an adventure than expected .
Author: Cindy Ross
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Published: 2016-02-11
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1680510355
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Not only are readers given the opportunity to experience the sheer beauty and at times frightening dangers of the trail, but they also watch two children grow and learn to call the trail their home. Well written, captivating, and incredibly educational, this adventure is a lesson in the simplicity of life and the beauty of accomplishment.” —Publishers Weekly "This is both an epic adventure of the first order and the heartwarming story of the family who accomplished it." —San Francisco Chronicle Now available for the first time in paperback and ebook, Scraping Heaven is the story of a family’s adventurous trek over the rooftop of North America—a warm and heartfelt account with a powerful message for parents, long-distance hikers, and outdoor adventurers alike. The Continental Divide Trail, a rugged 3100-mile footpath running along the crest of the Rocky Mountains from Canada to Mexico, is infamous for its tricky mountain passes and snowy traverses. In 1993, Cindy Ross, her husband, and their two toddlers set out together on the Trail. Using llamas as kid-carriers and packers, they successfully hiked the entire route over the next five summers, covering the last 700 miles on tandem mountain bikes in 1998. A keenly observant storyteller, Ross deftly interweaves evocative descriptions of the landscape with dramatic accounts of sudden snowstorms, gale-force winds strong enough to lift a child, and heart-pounding wildlife encounters. Through it all, her intimate reflections on marriage, family, and children provide depth and interest far beyond the high Rocky Mountain peaks. Scraping Heaven features a new afterword by the author.
Author: Lydia Laube
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1862549028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLydia Laube, one of the world's dauntless, intrepid travellers, is off to South America in search of the sun. Braving hair-raising mountainous tracks, bandits, immigration officials, jungle beasts and third-world dentists, she ventures through Mexico, down the Panama Canal, along the coast of Colombia, and into Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
Author: L. H. May
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2016-01-20
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1504958179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Silver Llama is the final novel of the Tihuantinsuyo Quartet, and though it stands alone like each of the previous three, it has many of the same characters and winds up plot threads from the previous three books. The title refers to a llama statuette that the narrator and his friend discovered near Ocros, Peru, in 1969 before it was stolen from them in the first novel, Riders on the Nio Storms. It reappears two decades later as an object of obsession like the Maltese Falcon, a central symbol and flywheel of the plot. A plot is nothing without interesting characters, and specifically, Proust is a model for the analyses of their sexual relations and jealousies. Combining Hammett and Proust may seem an odd recipe, but the characters dont have inherited wealth like those of Proust, and though quite cultured, they live in a different world that sometimes requires them to get their hands dirty. The third novel, The Coca Bums, shows the dirt well and also plays on the gradations of morality the characters experience living in a developing nation, a continually readjusting slide rule of situational ethics. Most of the principal characters are Americans, so this novel says as much about America as it does about Peru, from a new and distant, hopefully engaging and entertaining point of view.
Author: Duccio Bonavia
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2009-02-01
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1938770846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most significant differences between the New World's major areas of high culture is that Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden and wool, while the Andes had both. Four members of the camelid family--wild guanacos and vicunas, and domestic llamas and alpacas--were native to the Andes. South American peoples relied on these animals for meat and wool, and as beasts of burden to transport goods all over the Andes. In this book, Duccio Bonavia tackles major questions about these camelids, from their domestication to their distribution at the time of the Spanish conquest. One of Bonavia's hypotheses is that the arrival of the Europeans and their introduced Old World animals forced the Andean camelids away from the Pacific coast, creating the (mistaken) impression that camelids were exclusively high-altitude animals. Bonavia also addresses the diseases of camelids and their population density, suggesting that the original camelid populations suffered from a different type of mange than that introduced by the Europeans. This new mange, he believes, was one of the causes behind the great morbidity of camelids in Colonial times. In terms of domestication, while Bonavia believes that the major centers must have been the puna zone intermediate zones, he adds that the process should not be seen as restricted to a single environmental zone. Bonavia's landmark study of the South American camelids is now available for the first time in English. This new edition features an updated analysis and comprehensive bibliography. In the Spanish edition of this book, Bonavia lamented the fact that the zooarchaeological data from R. S. MacNeish's Ayacucho Project had yet to be published. In response, the Ayacucho's Project's faunal analysts, Elizabeth S. Wing and Kent V. Flannery, have added appendices on the Ayacucho results to this English edition. This book will be of broad interest to archaeologists, zoologists, social anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and a wide range of students.
Author: Jeannie Brendler
Publisher:
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781514492697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE MAKING OF A LLAMA FAMILY chronicles a couple's 26-year odyssey with their llamas, first at their farm in North Carolina and later at their ranch in southwestern Virginia. The story begins in 1976, when the author and her husband met in Fairfax, Virginia, and it traces their adventures from Fairfax to Florida, to the Carolinas and back to their present-day farm in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. The journey relates incidents from the early years of the couple's marriage, and then evolves into the long partnership with their llama herd, starting in 1990. The author recounts the tale of moving to their current Virginia propery in 1996 and creating a llama ranch from a blank canvas. The couple lived for several weeks in their van while their barn was being built and then, while their house was being constructed, they lived with their llamas in the barn. Key to the story is how the couple interacted with the llamas while sharing the barn with them, and how both humans and animals remain today as one family unit. The author details her years of observing llamas as a family, and provides essential information for their care and happiness.
Author: Helen Cowie
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1780237863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnown for their woolly charm, sure-footed strength, and a propensity to spit at you if you bother them too much, llamas have had a rich and diverse history. Since their domestication high in the Andes, they have been farmed, smuggled, sacrificed, and sometimes kept around just to be petted. They have functioned at different times as luxury commodities, literary muses, and national symbols, and they have served by turns as beasts of burden, circus performers, and even golf caddies. In this book, Helen Cowie charts the fascinating history of llamas and their close relatives, alpacas, guanacos, and vicuñas. Cowie illustrates how deeply the Incas venerated llamas and shows how the animals are still cherished in their native lands in Peru and Bolivia, remaining central to Andean culture. She also tells the story of attempts to introduce llamas and alpacas to Britain, the United States, and Australia, where they are used today for trekking, wool production, and even as therapy animals. Packed with llama drama and alpaca facts, this book will delight animal lovers, fans of natural history, and anyone who just can’t resist these inimitable animals’ off-the-charts cuteness factor.
