Author: Eva March TappanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Universal
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The World's Story
Author: Eva March TappanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Universal
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Elephant Repellent
Author: Graham BarlowPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300791357
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Hiker Beware. Are you concerned that you might be attacked by elephants while hiking? Do you sometimes wonder why the mere mention of the words "let's organise a hike" causes thunderstorms and a drop in temperature of thirty degrees? Are you tired of all the "how-to" books on offer that make the rugged outdoor life look like a gentle stroll in the park? This, then, is the book for you: the definitive "how-not-to" hiking book which details the research the author and his selfless companions put themselves through in order that you may be forewarned and can sit at home and suffer vicariously instead of drowning in downpours, eating "food" off a dusty patch of mother earth, sleeping on a growing mountain or getting hopelessly lost somewhere between Africa and, possibly, Asia.
Elephants
Author: Ellen Greene StewartPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147668779X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Elephants are a keystone species and have been a part of the magic of the thickly forested land of South Africa for millennia. This book focuses on the history and work of Knysna Elephant Park, a leading South African elephant research facility that has been home to more than 40 elephants in 25 years. Unfortunately, all the mystique of the Knysna elephant has been reduced to a single elephant left alive. Exploring a wide range of topics, this book covers the impact of elephants' interactions with tourists, how they recover from trauma and even their relevance in human healthcare. Renowned elephant researchers explain the majesty of the elephant brain, which has the largest temporal lobe devoted to communication, language, spatial memory and cognition. To this effect, the book emphasizes the threat of poaching to these gentle giants, which has almost forced them to extinction. Perhaps if humans pay attention to how elephants symbolize our relationship with nature, we can learn important lessons about humanity itself.
Mahlangeni
Author: Kobie KrugerPublisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143027018
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Mahlangeni, the Tsonga word for 'meeting place', is one of the most remote ranger stations in the Kruger National Park. Far from everywhere, this isolated corner of the wilderness was home for eleven years to Kobie Krüger, wife of the ranger in charge of the station, and their three daughters. Running a household and raising a family in a place where leopards, elephants, snakes and the like are your only neighbours, where you have no telephone, and where a trip to town means first crossing a river full of hippos and crocodiles, is hardly a straightforward business. But Kobie Krüger tackled each problem with undaunted pragmatism and an energy that gives new meaning to the word resourceful. Written with warmth, humour and a charm that reflects her deep love of the solitude of the wilderness and her respect for its creatures, great and small, her story of life at Mahlangeni will delight all lovers of wild places.
Notes of a Journey Across the Isthmus of Krà
Author: Alfred John LoftusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kra Expedition, 1883
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The ABC's of Financial Freedom
Author: Barry CameronPublisher: College Press
ISBN: 9780899009582
Category : Finance, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Eagle Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fraternal organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Myths and Legends
Author: John PembertonPublisher: Canary Press eBooks
ISBN: 190869811X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Many ancient legends in circulation, either through verbal story-telling, ancient script or paintings, have assisted the human race in understanding the complex world we live in, even if they have been embellished over the years. They have helped us form societies and have given people reason to live, they are the blocks that when linked together can help us find the answers we as a human race have been searching for. Myths and Legends gathers together the principal mythologies, legends and folklore of ancient and modern cultures and explores the relationship that they have with their people and with the major religions of the world. Contents : Creation; male and female relationships; natural disaster; survival; death and the afterlife. Principal myths and legends of the world: Greek, Roman, Celtic; pagan; Arthurian; Greenman, Norse, Voodoo; Caribbean folk heroes; giants, dragons and unicorns; Maori gods rangi and papa (sky and earth); dream-time of the indigenous Australians; Bon of Tibet; Chinese mythology; Native American tribal stories; mythology and religion: Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism, Taoism.
The Phone Poem Book
Author: L. Eugene StartzmanPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145206301X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Phone poems are concise, precise, and often humorous 4 line verses that were originally written for the telephone answering machine. Volume 2, Simple Gifts,continues that tradition in the first part of the book with 333 such poems, mostly inspired by recent events in the authors life, especially his adventures with his dachshund, Simon, his love of nature, its creatures, the flowers and elements in his wifes garden (a new-to-the-garden old white door), the advent of winter and spring, angels, demons, the movements of planets and stars, some current events,etc. The second part of the book contains a different order of humorous verse based on events that occurred during the authors past as he and his wife attempted to rear their 3 children and live together as a loving family. These longer poems, organized around the theme, Simple Gifts, are from varying points of view: father (My Son the Ninja), mother (My Flaw), but especially the children, as in the delightful Eyeball Soup, the poignant Clip-Clop the Wonder Horse, Nightmare,Pierced Ears, Daddys Nose, The Snicker-Snack Man, and more. The second volume of Phone Poems also contains another new (to these works) literary form,the parable, wherein the reader is invited to participate in discovering the meaning of a brief story. The most unusual of the 4 parables is The Text, told from the third person limited point of view of an angel who is given a difficult task by his ultimate superior.
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