A cautionary story told by Peter, a brown pelican, who lives in Harrietts Bluff, Georgia, on a tidal river named Crooked River, and fishes with his friend, Pop. Includes facts about brown pelicans and questions for readers.
technologies, the new and often experimental equipment involved was expensive, and the makers had to be persuade, coerce, beg, plead, bribe and fight to find the funding to support it." "Goltzius & the Pelican Company is the story of the Dutch engraver Hendrik Goltzius persuading one of the petty German princelings of Europe to pay for an expensive printing press to make a limited deluxe edition of a boldly illustrated Old Testament. And like a good advertising executive hoping to clinch a deal Goltzius is prepared to sweeten his offer by getting his Pelican Printing Company from The Hague to fulsomely dramatise six erotic biblical tales that demonstrate the six sexual taboos - voyeurism, incest, adultery, pederasty, prostitution and necrophilia. They start with the very first copulation tutored by Saton on Adam and Eve, and continue with the story of Lot and his daughters, the adultery of David and Bathsheba, the seduction of the under-aged Joseph by Potiphar's Wife, the --
Peter Pelican and Other Bird Poems is a collection of short stories using whimsical verse about different birds from around the world. The colorful illustrations are fun for kids of all ages. Birds are wonderful gifts to humanity. A tree wouldn't be a tree without birds nesting on its boughs. Each new day brings a chorus of birds welcoming us and blessing us with song. Children will learn about the habits of birds while laughing at their adventures.