The Whooping Crane Saga and Other Stories
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Publisher: White Feather
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Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 1301937150
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Publisher: White Feather
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Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 1301937150
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Publisher: White Feather
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Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1301327697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Caswell Parker
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Here are real tales of adventure, magic and animal lore handed down by Seneca and Onondaga Indians. Arthur C. Parker, whom they called Gawaso Wanneh, spent his boyhood among them, and learned their marvelous legends from their own lips"--Dust jacket.
Author: Paul A. Johnsgard
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0803238282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDriving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. "I suspect," he says, "that the migrating cranes of a preice age period some ten million years ago would fully understand every nuance of the crane conversation going on today along the Platte."
Author: Kathleen Kaska
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012-09-16
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0813042763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMillions of people know a little bit about efforts to save the whooping crane, thanks to the movie Fly Away Home and annual news stories about ultralight planes leading migratory flocks. But few realize that in the spring of 1941, the population of these magnificent birds--pure white with black wingtips, standing five feet tall with a seven-foot wingspan--had reached an all-time low of fifteen. Written off as a species destined for extinction, the whooping crane has made a slow but unbelievable comeback over the last seven decades. This recovery would have been impossible if not for the efforts of Robert Porter Allen, an ornithologist with the National Audubon Society, whose courageous eight-year crusade to find the only remaining whooping crane nesting site in North America garnered nationwide media coverage. His search and his impassioned lectures about overdevelopment, habitat loss, and unregulated hunting triggered a media blitz that had thousands of citizens on the lookout for the birds during their migratory trips. Allen's tireless efforts changed the course of U.S. environmental history and helped lead to the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Though few people remember him today, his life reads like an Indiana Jones story, full of danger and adventure, failure and success. His amazing story deserves to be told.
Author: Ethan Rutherford
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 2021-04-21
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1646050487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA baby is born with gills. Foxes raise and then lose a human child. A man, in the final throes of his deathbed fever-dream, experiences a cross-Antarctic voyage. The stories in Furthest South, the second story collection from renowned writer Ethan Rutherford, find characters in the most unexpectedly menacing of circumstances, in which their sanity, happiness, and safety are put to the test. Formally ambitious, with an eye toward the strange, with a inimitable style all Rutherford's own, each story is nonetheless firmly grounded by a deep, human concern: the anxiety of family connection and humanity.
Author: George Archibald
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Published: 2016-09-24
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ISBN-13: 9780997940503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollected stories by George Archibald, Co-Founder of the International Crane Foundation.
Author: Douglas George Myers
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780911461152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Association for Childhood Education International
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jon Mooallem
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-05-16
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1101617845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Intelligent and highly nuanced… This book may bring tears to your eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls—while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it—from Thomas Jefferson’s celebrations of early abundance to the turn-of the-last-century origins of the teddy bear to the whale-loving hippies of the 1970s. With propulsive curiosity and searing wit, and without the easy moralizing and nature worship of environmental journalism’s older guard, Wild Ones merges reportage, science, and history into a humane and endearing meditation on what it means to live in, and bring a life into, a broken world.