Author: Ludlow Griscom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674284111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Birds of Nantucket
Author: Ludlow Griscom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674284111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674284111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Night Birds On Nantucket
Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409024687
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Shipwrecked Dido Twite, picked up by a whaling ship, finds herself many miles from home and facing deep troubles. Sinister Miss Slighcarp, the governess from Willoughby Chase, makes a reappearance, this time is cahoots with Hanoverian plotters who have a dastardly plan in mind.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409024687
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Shipwrecked Dido Twite, picked up by a whaling ship, finds herself many miles from home and facing deep troubles. Sinister Miss Slighcarp, the governess from Willoughby Chase, makes a reappearance, this time is cahoots with Hanoverian plotters who have a dastardly plan in mind.
Night Birds on Nantucket
Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140303469
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Dido Twite is rescued from the sea by Captain Casket, who takes her to his Nantucket home where Dido's suspicions about Aunt Tribulation result in the uncovering of a plot to blow up King James III with a long-range gun.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140303469
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Dido Twite is rescued from the sea by Captain Casket, who takes her to his Nantucket home where Dido's suspicions about Aunt Tribulation result in the uncovering of a plot to blow up King James III with a long-range gun.
A Preliminary List of the Birds of Nantucket
Author: Winthrop Sprague Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Birding Nantucket
Author: Edith F. Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bird watching
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bird watching
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Check List of Nantucket Birds
Author: Edith F. Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Birds of Nantucket
Author: Edith Virginia Folger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553522205
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease. With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553522205
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease. With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?
Last of the Curlews
Author: Fred Bodsworth
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582438862
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
In this conservation classic, originally published more than sixty years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a species on the brink of extinction, and for all in nature that is endangered. This new paperback edition includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet W.S. Merwin and an afterword by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell–Mann.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582438862
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
In this conservation classic, originally published more than sixty years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a species on the brink of extinction, and for all in nature that is endangered. This new paperback edition includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet W.S. Merwin and an afterword by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell–Mann.
Black Hearts in Battersea
Author: Joan Aiken
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547530714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In this hilarious classic adventure, an innocent boy and his friends must stop a plot to topple the King of England. Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew’s fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help of his friend Sophie and the resourceful waif Dido, Simon narrowly escapes a series of madcap close calls and dangerous run-ins. In a time and place where villains do nothing halfway, Simon is faced with wild wolves, poisoned pies, kidnapping, and a wrecked ship. This is a cleverly contrived tale of intrigue and misadventure. Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl “It’s a marvel!” —The New Yorker “A wild yarn, not to be put down once it is started.” —Washington Post “A riot of wildly improbable adventures happening to absurd and loveable characters with Dickensian names in a time that never was . . . Heartrending, hair-raising, rib-tickling, and delightful.” —New York Times
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547530714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In this hilarious classic adventure, an innocent boy and his friends must stop a plot to topple the King of England. Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew’s fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help of his friend Sophie and the resourceful waif Dido, Simon narrowly escapes a series of madcap close calls and dangerous run-ins. In a time and place where villains do nothing halfway, Simon is faced with wild wolves, poisoned pies, kidnapping, and a wrecked ship. This is a cleverly contrived tale of intrigue and misadventure. Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl “It’s a marvel!” —The New Yorker “A wild yarn, not to be put down once it is started.” —Washington Post “A riot of wildly improbable adventures happening to absurd and loveable characters with Dickensian names in a time that never was . . . Heartrending, hair-raising, rib-tickling, and delightful.” —New York Times