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Author: Alastair Macleod Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 3739616768 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 42
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A sequel to the story Rhino. This modern day story, Elephant Ghosts, is set in East Africa where rhino and elephant populations are under extreme threat from poachers. In the last few years hundreds of rhino and elephant have been killed and their horns and trunks sold at very high prices to China, Vietnam and Yemen. Just as major politicians in the countries concerned are beginning to take action, a new player is moving into poaching to fund itself; terrorism. This story, takes place in Kenya 2015, and it brings you right into the heart of the crime fighting battle for the lives of the rhino and the elephant.
Author: Alastair Macleod Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 3739616768 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 42
Book Description
A sequel to the story Rhino. This modern day story, Elephant Ghosts, is set in East Africa where rhino and elephant populations are under extreme threat from poachers. In the last few years hundreds of rhino and elephant have been killed and their horns and trunks sold at very high prices to China, Vietnam and Yemen. Just as major politicians in the countries concerned are beginning to take action, a new player is moving into poaching to fund itself; terrorism. This story, takes place in Kenya 2015, and it brings you right into the heart of the crime fighting battle for the lives of the rhino and the elephant.
Author: John Frederick Walker Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 155584913X Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 320
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“[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world—from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japan—for its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. But the beauty came at an unfathomable cost. Walker lays bare the ivory trade’s cruel connection with the slave trade and the increasing slaughter of elephants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1980s, elephant poaching reached levels that threatened the last great herds of the African continent, and led to a worldwide ban on the ancient international trade in tusks. But the ban has failed to stop poaching—or the emotional debate over what to do with the legitimate and growing stockpiles of ivory recovered from elephants that die of natural causes. “Ivory’s Ghost is essential reading for anyone concerned with conservation and with the tenuous future of one of the most magnificent creatures our earth has ever seen.” —George B. Schaller, author of A Naturalist and Other Beast
Author: Celesta Rimington Publisher: Yearling ISBN: 0593121252 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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A magical adventure for fans of Katherine Applegate and Jennifer Holm about a girl with a mysterious connection to the elephant who saved her life. An elephant never forgets, but Lexington Willow can't remember her past. Swept away by a tornado as a toddler, she was dropped in a nearby Nebraska zoo, where an elephant named Nyah protected her from the storm. With no trace of her family, Lex grew up at the zoo with her foster father, Roger; her best friend, Fisher; and the wind whispering in her ear. Years later, Nyah sends Lex a telepathic image of the woods outside the zoo. Soon, Lex is wrapped up in an adventure involving ghosts, lost treasure, and a puzzle that might be the key to finding her family. Can Lex summon the courage to discover who she really is--and why the tornado brought her here all those years ago?
Author: Margaret Oatley Publisher: Partridge Africa ISBN: 1482809575 Category : Pets Languages : en Pages : 79
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Believing is seeing, Nor explained. I live with faeries and that seems far-fetched to most people, but because I believe in them, they are always around me. I was told to fear You-know-Who. To this day, even though I am a grown man, I am scared of him. said Frans. I never mention his real name! I dont mind my Mothers Welsh faeries, added Rene, but the Spriggans are different. They tease me whenever I step out into the garden. If believing is seeing, thought Polly, who felt sorry for her aunt, Ill find You-know-Who and ask him to chase the Spriggans right out of Renes life! This is a charming story from Africa that brings to mind many distant feelings, recollections, and memories. It is well written with believable child appeal. - RJMD
Author: Kim Norman Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) ISBN: 0374388601 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 21
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A Bank Street Best Book of 2021 Inspired by the children's song "The Ants Went Marching" and involving early math concepts, writer Kim Norman and illustrator Jay Fleck's The Ghosts Went Floating is a spooktacular adventure perfect for Halloween. The ghosts went floating, one by one, BOO-rah! BOO-rah! when Halloween had just begun. BOO-rah! BOO-rah! The ghosts went floating, one by one, so why don’t YOU come join the fun? Trick-or-treat with ghosts, skeletons, witches, zombies, and all sorts of cute and creepy creatures in this fun-filled Halloween counting adventure!
Author: Caitlin O'Connell Publisher: Alibi ISBN: 1101883472 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 383
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“With descriptions and dialect so real you feel as if you might be turning pages while sitting deep in the bush, and a skillful narrative that teaches while it thrills, this novel is a win for any animal lover or reader with a conservationist’s heart.”—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FINALIST • In a blockbuster debut thriller brimming with majestic wildlife, village politics, and international intrigue, a chilling quadruple homicide raises the stakes in the battle to save Africa’s elephants. Still grieving over the tragic death of her fiancé, American wildlife biologist Catherine Sohon leaves South Africa and drives to a remote outpost in northeast Namibia, where she plans to face off against the shadowy forces of corruption and relentless human greed in the fight against elephant poaching. Undercover as a census pilot tracking the local elephant population, she’ll really be collecting evidence on the ruthless ivory traffickers. But before she even reaches her destination, Catherine stumbles onto a scene of horrifying carnage: three people shot dead in their car, and a fourth nearby—with his brain removed. The slaughter appears to be the handiwork of a Zambian smuggler known as “the witchdoctor,” a figure reviled by activists and poachers alike. Forced to play nice with local officials, Catherine finds herself drawn to the prickly but charismatic Jon Baggs, head of the Ministry of Conservation, whose blustery exterior belies his deep investment in the poaching wars. Torn between her developing feelings and her unofficial investigation, she takes to the air, only to be grounded by a vicious turf war between competing factions of a black-market operation that reaches far beyond the borders of Africa. With the mortality rate—both human and animal—skyrocketing, Catherine races to intercept a valuable shipment. Now she’s flying blind, and a cunning killer is on the move.
Author: Connie Barlow Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0786724897 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 306
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A new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the dimension of time. Every field, forest, and park is full of living organisms adapted for relationships with creatures that are now extinct. In a vivid narrative, Connie Barlow shows how the idea of "missing partners" in nature evolved from isolated, curious examples into an idea that is transforming how ecologists understand the entire flora and fauna of the Americas. This fascinating book will enrich and deepen the experience of anyone who enjoys a stroll through the woods or even down an urban sidewalk. But this knowledge has a dark side too: Barlow's "ghost stories" teach us that the ripples of biodiversity loss around us now are just the leading edge of what may well become perilous cascades of extinction.
Author: Theresa Bane Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476663556 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 179
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Of all the anomalous phenomenon reported, ghost sightings are by far the most common. The words "ghost" and "spirit" are used interchangeably in American English but in other cultures the lingering souls of the departed are not to be confused with ancestral spirits, demonic spirits, numens or poltergeists. This encyclopedia lists hundreds of entities of the spirit realm--from aatxe to zuzeca--from world mythology and folklore.
Author: Jean Valentine Publisher: Copper Canyon Press ISBN: 1619320142 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 98
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"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."—Library Journal In her eleventh collection—honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry—Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds. Whether writing elegies, meditations on aging, or an extended homage to Lucy, the earliest known hominid, the pared-down compactness of her tone and vision reveals a singular voice in American poetry. As Adrienne Rich has said of Valentine's work, "This is a poetry of the highest order, because it lets us into spaces and meanings we couldn't approach in any other way." From "If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them": At a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and damp, we were both at the desk at midnight asking if they had any heaters. They had one heater. You are ill, please you take it. Thank you for visiting my dream. * Can you breathe all right? Break the glass shout break the glass force the room break the thread Open the music behind the glass . . . Jean Valentine, a former State Poet of New York, earned a National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia University. She lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.
Author: Alastair Macleod
Author: Alastair Macleod
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Author: John Frederick Walker
Author: Celesta Rimington
Author: Margaret Oatley
Author: Kim Norman
Author: Caitlin O'Connell
Author: Connie Barlow
Author: Theresa Bane
Author: Jean Valentine