Ice Bird

Author : David Lewis
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574091519
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ice Bird written by David Lewis and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ice Bird is one of the great true sea stories of the twentieth century. It is also a tale of human endurance, a testimony of one man's will to overcome almost anything and everything physical and psychological to stay alive.

Author : George Morley Story
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802068194
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Newfoundland English written by George Morley Story and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982 to international acclaim, the Dictionary of Newfoundland English introduced the world to an incredibly rich dialect with deep roots in Ireland and the English West Country.

Author : James Burks
Publisher : Graphix
ISBN 13 : 9780545563185
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird & Squirrel on Ice written by James Burks and published by Graphix. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bird and Squirrel crash land in the South Pole during a raging blizzard, Bird is taken away by a horde of penguins intent on feeding him to a killer whale as a sacrifice, and Squirrel must hatch a crazy plan to escape.

Author : Arnold Lobel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780819304445
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ice-cream Cone Coot written by Arnold Lobel and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes in verse such unusual birds as the shuttercluck, the milkbottle midge, the waterglass goose, and the highbutton bobolink.

Author : Jonathan C. Slaght
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718091
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Owls of the Eastern Ice written by Jonathan C. Slaght and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction A Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book Award A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Review Best Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London) "A terrifically exciting account of [Slaght's] time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston’s fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water . . . Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you.” —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, in Kirkus I saw my first Blakiston’s fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist had seen a Blakiston’s fish owl so far south in a hundred years . . . When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. That first sighting set his calling as a scientist. Despite a wingspan of six feet and a height of over two feet, the Blakiston’s fish owl is highly elusive. They are easiest to find in winter, when their tracks mark the snowy banks of the rivers where they feed. They are also endangered. And so, as Slaght and his devoted team set out to locate the owls, they aim to craft a conservation plan that helps ensure the species’ survival. This quest sends them on all-night monitoring missions in freezing tents, mad dashes across thawing rivers, and free-climbs up rotting trees to check nests for precious eggs. They use cutting-edge tracking technology and improvise ingenious traps. And all along, they must keep watch against a run-in with a bear or an Amur tiger. At the heart of Slaght’s story are the fish owls themselves: cunning hunters, devoted parents, singers of eerie duets, and survivors in a harsh and shrinking habitat. Through this rare glimpse into the everyday life of a field scientist and conservationist, Owls of the Eastern Ice testifies to the determination and creativity essential to scientific advancement and serves as a powerful reminder of the beauty, strength, and vulnerability of the natural world.

Author : Shi HuangDi
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1649357060
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paramount War God written by Shi HuangDi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War God Continent was vast and endless. The nine forbidden lands were filled with a rain of blood and gore. The Four Great Sacred Grounds had forged countless peerless experts. The mysterious youth who had walked out from the forbidden area. A man. A saber. He stepped on the geniuses and the strong, becoming a supreme wargod. And all of this, from the moment Mu Tian arrived ...

Author : James C. Bartonek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservation of Marine Birds of Northern North America written by James C. Bartonek and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to identify problems and needed information and programs necessary for conservation of marine birds of northern North America.

Author : Walter Foster Creative Team
Publisher : Walter Foster
ISBN 13 : 1600583687
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learn to Draw Angry Birds Space written by Walter Foster Creative Team and published by Walter Foster. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers step-by-step instructions for learning to draw all of the "Angry Birds Space" characters.

Author : Adrian Flanagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472912543
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cape Horners' Club written by Adrian Flanagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has exacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water and weather patterns at the bottom of the world and funnels them into a maritime superhighway a mere 500 miles wide, building massive seas and accelerating wind speeds to hurricane strength. Currents rip at rates that defeat powerful engines. These legendarily treacherous conditions were enough to secure Cape Horn's reputation as the ultimate in ocean violence; the supreme test of sailors and ships. It is the oceanic equivalent of the climbers' Everest, and the challenge to some became irresistible. The roll call of sailors who have managed to round the Horn east-about (and more rarely, head to wind and west-about) glitters with the names of sailing legends: Vito Dumas, Marcel Bardiaux, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier and Chay Blyth. This book recounts the history of the Cape through the stories of the people who've taken it on and made it round – the Cape Horners' Club. From the first recorded single-hander in 1934 (Al Hansen, who was lost shortly afterwards and his body never found), we follow these very different protagonists as they pursue the ultimate goal while battling almost overwhelming odds. Woven through their stories is a history of the Cape, from its discovery to its use as a trading corridor until the opening of the Panama Canal, to its more recent role as a pure challenge for the best yachtsmen and yachtswomen in the world. Changes in weather prediction and navigation have had a huge impact, but the pressure for ever-faster times has never been greater.

Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservation of marine birds of northern North America written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conservation of Marine Birds of Northern North America: Papers from the International Symposium Held at the Seattle Hyatt House" is a significant compilation of papers from an international symposium dedicated to the conservation of marine birds in the northern North American region. This publication serves as a vital resource for researchers, conservationists, and anyone interested in the protection and preservation of marine bird species. The symposium's contributions shed light on critical issues related to these avian populations, making it a valuable reference for understanding and addressing conservation challenges.