Providence Of A Sparrow

Author : Chris Chester
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400033853
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Providence of a Sparrow written by Chris Chester and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” --William Shakespeare, Hamlet B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life of Chris Chester. The encounter was providential for both of them. B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-cap fetch or hide-and-seek. They learned “words” in each other’s vocabularies. B developed a fetish for nostrils and a dislike of the color yellow. He grew anxious if Chester came home late from work. At bedtime he would rub his sleepy eyes on Chester’s thumb and settle to sleep in his palm. Chester ended up turning part of his house into an aviary and adjusting his social life to meet B’s demands. This was a small price to pay, though, for the trust and comfort of a twenty-five-gram friend who brought joy and wonder back into his life.

Author : Chris Chester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Providence of a Sparrow written by Chris Chester and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Doria Russell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345510887
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sparrow written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. Praise for The Sparrow “A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today

Author : Kim Todd
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861899777
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparrow written by Kim Todd and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Sparrows are everywhere and wear many guises. Able to live in the Arctic and the desert, from Beijing to San Francisco, the house sparrow is the most ubiquitous wild bird in the world. They are the subject of elegies by Catullus and John Skelton and listed as “pretty things” in Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book—but they’re also urban vermin with shocking manners that were so reviled that Mao placed them on the list of Four Pests and ordered the Chinese people to kill them on sight. In Sparrow, award-winning science and natural history writer Kim Todd explores the bird's complex history, biology, and literary tradition. Todd describes the difference between Old World sparrows, like the house sparrow, which can nest in a garage or in an airport, and New World sparrows, which often stake their claim to remote islands or meadows in the high Sierra. In addition, she looks at the nineteenth-century Sparrow War in the United States—a battle over the sparrow’s introduction—which set the stage for decades of discussions of invasive species. She examines the ways in which sparrows have taught us about evolution and the shocking recent decline of house sparrows in cities globally—this disappearance of a bird that seemed hardwired for success remains an ornithological mystery. With lush illustrations, ranging from early woodcuts and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary wildlife photography, this is the first book-length exploration of the natural and cultural history of this beloved, reviled, and ubiquitous bird.

Author : Rhode Island. Commissioners of Birds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Check List of Rhode Island Nesting Birds written by Rhode Island. Commissioners of Birds and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reginald Heber Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birds of Rhode Island written by Reginald Heber Howe and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Salim Ali
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of a Sparrow written by Salim Ali and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of an Indian ornithologist.

Author : Amy Belding Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451466691
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Sparrow written by Amy Belding Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Emily's House comes a “compelling, emotionally gripping”* novel of historical fiction—perfect for readers of America’s First Daughter. Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader, made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors’ open and straightforward way of life, a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. Now, having lived on the other side of the forest, she begins to question the edicts that have guided her, torn between the life she knew and the wisdom the natives have shown her. Based on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports the reader to a little-known time in early America and explores the real meanings of freedom, faith, and acceptance. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

Author : Louis di Zerega Mearns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds Observed on Prudence Island, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island written by Louis di Zerega Mearns and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684850273
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of a Sparrow written by Robert Hellenga and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-07-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his rich and dazzling new novel, the author of the bestselling "The Sixteen Pleasures" chronicles the journey of a man awakening from profound sorrow and rediscovering love in a most unexpected time and place.