The Bird who Cleans the World
Author: Víctor Montejo
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of Mayan folktales deals with themes of creation, nature, mutual respect, and ethnic relations and conflicts.
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The Bird who Cleans the World
Author: Victor Montejo
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese Mayan fables and animal stories were collected and transcribed by the author from Jakaltek-Maya language, one of the 21 Mayan languages that are still spoken in Guatemala. The stories are firmly rooted in the world of nature, demonstrating and insisting on honesty, understanding and respect among people and their cultures.
The Bird who was Afraid to Clean the Crocodile's Teeth
Author: Paris Sandow
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlim the bird is assigned to clean Gar the crocodile's teeth, but Gar is the most fearsome crocodile in the river, and Slim is afraid until Gar saves his life and explains why he looks so frightening.
Vesper Flights
Author: Helen Macdonald
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0802146694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
All the Birds of the World
Author: Josep del Hoyo
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 967
ISBN-13: 9788416728374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the World Began
Author: Helmut Thielicke
Publisher: James Clarke & Co.
Published: 1964-01-07
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780227674840
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The question of where we come from and where we are going is one of the elementary challenges of life. Perhaps it is THE question of life. Only when we get an answer to it do we learn who we are." With these striking words, Prof Helmut Thielicke begins this book about the most fundamental of all questions; the question of who we are, whence we came, and what God intended when he gave us life. Despite - perhaps even because of - the immense technological advances of our time, and the frightful consequences for the human race of the misuse of that power, man is brought face to face again with that basic problem which has haunted him since the beginning of time, the mystery of good and evil. Weaving these themes of origin and purpose, good and evil together, these are sermons for our times - highly intelligent, widely ranging, fascinating, and of quite exceptional power. There is nothing sloppy or sentimental in this book. These chapters are the creation of a 20th century man with a particularly penetrating mind.
Birds of the World
Author: Frank Hall Knowlton
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 936
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Set forth in non-technical language the salient facts regarding the birds of the world ... Every family has been reviewed ... The treatment of the so-called game birds, both aquatic and non-aquatic, has purposely been made very full ... Main attention has been given to the birds as they appear in their homes--that is, their plumage, habits, songs; nests and eggs, food, etc."--Preface. 233 illustrations--color and black & white photographs, line drawings. Indexed.
The World's Best Conundrums and Riddles of All Ages
Author: James Gilchrist Lawson
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Borrowed Earth
Author: Robert Emmet Hernan
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-02-02
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0230105270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata and others. And with these, the extraordinary and inspirational stories of the countless men and women who fought bravely to protect the communities and environments at risk.
