The World Grows Round My Door
Author: David Fairchild
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 376
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Author: David Fairchild
Publisher:
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStory of The Kampong, home on the edge of the tropics.
Author: David Fairchild
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 376
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Author: Benjamin Lincoln Robinson
Publisher: In the Hands of a Child
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 55
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Published: 1947-08
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEstablished in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Author: Kelly Enright
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012-01-10
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0813932432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDanger in the Congo! The unexplored Amazon! Long perceived as a place of mystery and danger, and more recently as a fragile system requiring our protection, the tropical forest captivated America for over a century. In The Maximum of Wilderness, Kelly Enright traces the representation of tropical forests--what Americans have typically thought of as "jungles"--and their place in both our perception of "wildness" and the globalization of the environmental movement. In the early twentieth century, jungle adventure--as depicted by countless books and films, from Burroughs’s Tarzan novels to King Kong--had enormous mass appeal. Concurrent with the proliferation of a popular image of the jungle that masked many of its truths was the work of American naturalists who sought to represent an "authentic" view of tropical nature through museums, zoological and botanical gardens, books, and film. Enright examines the relationship between popular and scientific representations of the forest through the lives and work of Martin and Osa Johnson (who with films such as Congorilla and Simba blended authenticity with adventure), as well as renowned naturalists John Muir, William Beebe, David Fairchild, and Richard Evans Schultes. The author goes on to explore a startling shift at midcentury in the perception of the tropical forest--from the "jungle," a place that endangers human life, to the "rain forest," a place that is itself endangered.
Author: Susanne Lucas
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2024-11-12
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1780232063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA natural and cultural history of this important and useful plant. We may think of bamboo only as a snack for cuddly panda bears, but we use the plant as food, clothing, paper, fabric, and shelter. Drawing on a vast array of sources, this book builds a complete picture of bamboo in both history and our modern world. Susanne Lucas shows how bamboo has always met the physical and spiritual requirements of humanity while at the same time being exploited by people everywhere. Lucas describes how bamboo’s special characteristics, such as its ability to grow quickly and thus be an easily replaced resource, offers potential solutions to modern ecological dilemmas. She explores the vital role bamboo plays in the survival of many animals and ecosystems, as well as its use for some of the earliest books ever written, as the framework for houses, and for musical instruments. As modern research and technologies advance, she explains, bamboo use has increased dramatically—it can now be found in the filaments of light bulbs, airplanes, the reinforcements of concrete, and even bicycles. Filled with illustrations, Bamboo is an interesting new take on a plant that is both very old and very new.
Author: Melvil Dewey
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 1930
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1328
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