Rat Island

Author : William Stolzenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191036
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rat Island written by William Stolzenburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the highly controversial practice of rescuing endangered island species by killing their predators, explaining how rats and other animals introduced to the Bering Sea midway by shipwrecks have decimated native bird populations.

Author : Stu Duval
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442541306
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rat Island written by Stu Duval and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tam is a cabin boy aboard a pirate ship, caught between the dreaded Captain Ezekiel who wants him to spy on his shipmates, and the crew who want him to join their mutiny. Tam has a terrible choice to make: who should he stay loyal to? First person recount. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Author : Charlene Joy Talbot
Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 : 9780689305962
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Rat Island Adventure written by Charlene Joy Talbot and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy accompanies his preoccupied ornithologist father on a summer expedition to study terns on an island sanctuary and finds himself involved in a dangerous adventure when a hurricane strikes.

Author : William Stolzenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608193314
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rat Island written by William Stolzenburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other remote islands around the world, a massive-and massively controversial-wildlife rescue mission is under way. Islands, making up just 3 percent of Earth's landmass, harbor more than half of its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by mainland predators-rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders, academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with rat poison. Rat Island reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today's conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy. Touring exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.

Author : Alison Lester
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143789252
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Small Island written by Alison Lester and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Place of publication taken from publisher's website.

Author : John Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913727086
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rat Island written by John Steele and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York, 1995 Cop Callum Burke arrives in New York from Hong Kong, drafted in as part of an international investigation into organised crime. With the handover of Hong Kong to China only a couple of years away, gangsters are moving their operations out of the territory and into New York ahead of the looming deadline. Burke's experiences with East Asian crime and the Triads' links to the Irish Mob make him the perfect man to send in undercover. But as he infiltrates these vast and lethal criminal networks, bodies start to pile up in his wake and his conscience threatens to send him over the edge. And when Burke's NYPD handlers push him to continue the investigation at all costs, he may have to cross the line from cop to criminal just to stay alive... Readers of Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, Steve Cavanagh, Richard Price and John Sandford will love this dark and morally complex novel which presents a searing portrait of mid-1990s New York as you've never seen it before.

Author : Suzi Siegel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493031511
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiny New York written by Suzi Siegel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because in a giant city, sometimes the smallest things get overlooked. Meet the tiniest standouts in the Big Apple, from a baby dinosaur at the Museum of Natural History to a dinky basketball court in the Village that has produced some of sport’s biggest legends. Other tiny stars include the NYPD’s smallest bomb-sniffing police dog (45 pounds), the shortest first name (just one letter!), and an itsy-bitsy topless bar (1200 square feet). Tiny New York peeks into the city’s nooks and crannies to find the little things that tell the real New York story. Because in New York, Tiny isn’t cute. It’s tough. Tiny doesn’t wait for handouts. It hustles. Tiny isn’t insignificant. It’s precise. Tiny isn’t a jack-of-all-trades. It’s the master of one. There are plenty of books about New York City. But there has never been a book about the smallest things in the biggest city.

Author : Charlotte Maria Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The rambles of a rat, by A.L.O.E. written by Charlotte Maria Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Naldrett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844865940
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasured Islands written by Peter Naldrett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands represent adventure, mystery, wilderness and escapism. Surrounded by water, they're somewhere to run away to, to be marooned on, to find a paradise... The British Isles includes some 194 inhabited islands (out of a total of over 6,000), ranging from remote lost worlds to famous and popular holiday spots. And Treasured Islands includes them all, in one enticing package. This wonderfully comprehensive and inspiring guide starts off with a Best of... section, highlighting the ten best islands for foodies, wildlife, adrenaline-junkies and pure escapism. Then, region by region, the author explores the UK's most wonderful islands, including: Shetlands, Fair Isle, Orkneys, Outer Hebrides, Inner Hebrides, Isle of Arran Lindisfarne, Isle of Man, Walney Island Anglesey, Pembrokeshire Island Foulness and Canvey Islands Isle of Sheppey, Lundy Isle of Wight, Isles of Scilly, Channel Islands, Islands of Ireland Tidal Islands (to include Burgh Island, Holy Island and St Michael's Mount) Inland Islands (to include Eel Pie, Derwent Isle and Peel Island in the Lake District) Remote Islands Illustrated with beautiful colour photography, the text ensures you won't miss out on must-see attractions, wildlife and natural features, local food specialties, sporting activities, best places to stay and eat, and all-important transport links to and from the mainland, and other nearby islands. For some light relief, there are interesting historical and cultural anecdotes woven through, giving a fascinating insight into the way of life on these sometimes remote settlements.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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