Return From Bird Island
Author: Ed Ballou
Publisher: Ed Ballou
Published: 2018-01-30
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA one-act play about a boy who awaits his father's return from the fabled Bird Island, with unexpected consequences...
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I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
Author: Susan Cerulean
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2020-08-01
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0820357383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.
The Lost Boys of Bird Island
Author: Mark Minnie
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780624086130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is the late 1980s. Allegations surface against three prominent National Party cabinet ministers: they are, it is said, abusing young boys on an island off the coast of Port Elizabeth. Mark Minnie, a cop, and Chris Steyn, a journalist, uncover evidence of this dark secret, but the case gets buried. Thirty years later, the two finally expose this shocking story of cover-ups and official complicity in the rape and possible murder of children.
Return of the Crazy Bird
Author: Clara Pinto-Correia
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-04-18
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0387216839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the history of the concept of extinction with the dodo as a case study, Pinto-Correia carefully weaves together story fragments to give a cohesive eye-opening view of 17th century exploration and the grave ramifications it had for the survival and extinction of many species. More importantly, she shows us the intellectual underpinnings of the old view that it was acceptable for some animals to die out. Within this narrative, we can see what the modern view of the dodo tells us about the history of our changing understanding and valuation of nature and our place in it. Strong writing, powered by lively historical anecdotes and sober insights into human behavior, makes this beautifully illustrated book a page-turner to the end.
A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan
Author: Mark Brazil
Publisher: Kodansha
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to the 60 best birdwatching sites in Japan. The book includes maps, field notes and travel information.
Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
Author: Hannah Stowe
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2023-09-19
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1959030183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner 2024 Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure Travel "A sensuous book, more felt than described, more described than explained, more painted than penned: part memoir, part journal and. . . . part natural mystery tour."—Carl Safina, The New York Times Book Review A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to experience what it’s like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm. As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide’s edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that she and so many others have been drawn to life at sea—and what might the water around us be able to teach us? Braiding her powerful and deeply personal narrative and illustrations with stories of six keystone marine creatures—the fire crow, sperm whale, wandering albatross, humpback whale, shearwater, and the barnacle—Stowe invites readers to fall in love, as she has, with the sea and those that call it home, and to discover the majesty, wonder, and vulnerability of the underwater world. For fans of Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard, Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea is an inspiring, heartfelt hymn to the sea, a testament to finding and following a dream, and an unforgettable introduction to a deeply gifted nature writer of a new generation.
Bird Island in Antarctic Waters
Author: David Freeland Parmelee
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published:
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1452909512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAntarctic Bird Studies
Author: Oliver L. Austin, Jr.
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Published: 1991-01-08
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0875901123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Antarctic Research Series, Volume 12. The birds of Antarctica, and particularly the penguins, have aroused man's interest and his scientific curiosity ever since he first learned of their existence less than two centuries ago. Yet scientific study of them has until recently been only a minor objective of the various expeditions that have visited this most recently discovered and still the least known and least accessible of the continents. The antarctic explorers of the 19th century regarded the birds essentially as a potential source of easily gathered food for men and sled-dogs—and they so used them well into the 20th century. What few bird data and specimens they brought back they acquired largely fortuitously.
The Return Of Seven
Author: Kenn Gordon
Publisher: BookRix
Published: 2020-12-23
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 3748769326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second book in the Andy McPhee and Team Seven series of books. Once again SIS's team seven have to save the world for another despot who is determend to bring the world to its knees. Political corruption is never far away when the stakes are high. as with the Conta affair the CIA'a hands are never clean except this time there are people in every conceivable branch of law enforcement including the UK Secret Services and even inside the American FBI. iIn order to save the world Team seven must go deep inside North Koreas no go area, From a gulag to a battle on the High Seas. Death follows them like a bad smell, This time they are destined to suffer the loss of one of ther own. Will they suceed ?
