Author: Víctor MontejoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A collection of Mayan folktales deals with themes of creation, nature, mutual respect, and ethnic relations and conflicts.
The Bird who Cleans the World
Author: Víctor MontejoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A collection of Mayan folktales deals with themes of creation, nature, mutual respect, and ethnic relations and conflicts.
The Bird who Cleans the World
Author: Victor MontejoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
These 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 SandowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Slim 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.
The Bird who Cleans the World
Author: Victor MontejoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
These 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.
Vesper Flights
Author: Helen MacdonaldPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802146694
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The 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.
Bird Who Cleans the World and other Mayan Fables
Author: Victor MontejoI Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
Author: Susan CeruleanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820357383
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.
The Book of the Bird
Author: Angus HylandPublisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781780677507
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exotics. Interspersed though the illustrations are short texts giving background to the pictures and information on bird species. This is the perfect gift for all bird lovers.
Bird Who Cleans the World
Author: Victor MontejoPublisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613858311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
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Birds of the World
Author: Frank Hall KnowltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
"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.