Author: Grace WilloughbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Rolling Seas and Sand Hills
Author: Grace WilloughbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Stepping Stones to Science
Author: Kendall HavenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313078726
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Bring science to life with these 13 action-packed stories about famous scientists. Students will learn basic skills and procedures of science while learning about such people as Shirley Jackson, Charles Goodyear, and James Wright. The historically accurate accounts cover varied aspects of physical, biological, and earth sciences. Stepping Stones to Science has been used as a recommended text at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
Through a Land of Promise
Author: Michael TerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Trip from Katherine - Wave Hill, Victoria Downs, Gordon Downs, Fitzroy Crossing, Broome; Brief mention and pls. of Aborigines met on journey.
Ahab's Rolling Sea
Author: Richard J. KingPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022651496X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385509580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The Sand-hills of Jutland
Author: Hans Christian AndersenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, Danish
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Man and Nature
Author: George Perkins MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description