Song Of The Crocodile

Author : Nardi Simpson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0733643752
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of the Crocodile written by Nardi Simpson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'SONG OF THE CROCODILE is a moving, wise and deeply rewarding novel from an astonishing writer' - Emily Maguire, author of AN ISOLATED INCIDENT Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of the Billymil family, three generations who have lived in this 'gateway town'. Race relations between Indigenous and settler families are fraught, though the rigid status quo is upheld through threats and soft power rather than the overt violence of yesteryear. As progress marches forwards, Darnmoor and its surrounds undergo rapid social and environmental changes, but as some things change, some stay exactly the same. The Billymil family are watched (and sometimes visited) by ancestral spirits and spirits of the recently deceased, who look out for their descendants and attempt to help them on the right path. When the town's secrets start to be uncovered the town will be rocked by a violent act that forever shatters a century of silence. Full of music, Yuwaalaraay language and exquisite description, Song of the Crocodile is a lament to choice and change, and the unyielding land that sustains us all, if only we could listen to it. 'In Song of the Crocodile, Yuwaalaraay author Nardi Simpson makes a lightning debut.' - Kill Your Darlings

Author : Vladimir Dinets
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628722983
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragon Songs written by Vladimir Dinets and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic—survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else—until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations—a form of communication extremely rare in nature—and a “dance” unknown in the scientific literature but that resembled a scene from Jurassic Park. To prove his thesis about the language of crocodiles, he spent the next six years traveling around the world on shoestring budgets and in extreme circumstances, studying almost every living species. At the same time, as a man desiring companionship in life, he sought love. With adventures on five continents, Dragon Songs is his account of this quest. It includes an escape from a boiling lava lake in the Afar Desert, being chased up a tree by a tiger in India, hitching a ride with a cocaine smuggler in Bolivia, and diving with giant Greenland sharks—all in the name of studying crocodiles, among which he routinely paddled in his inflatable kayak. Of course, not everything went according to plan. But, in the end, his ground-breaking research helped change the field. And during the course of his adventures, he met and courted his future wife.

Author : Judy Sierra
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152164454
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Time is It, Mister Crocodile? written by Judy Sierra and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Sarah Weeks
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060228675
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crocodile Smile written by Sarah Weeks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten songs, each from a different endangered animal's point of view, offer a stunning anthem to our planet and its inhabitants.

Author : Martin Jenkins
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763675385
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beware of the Crocodile written by Martin Jenkins and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore an informative, playfully illustrated story about one of the world’s most dangerous animals: the crocodile. You probably know a little about crocodiles already. They’re reptiles, they have an awful lot of teeth, and they’re pretty scary — at least, the big ones are! They’re not very fussy about what they eat, and when it comes to hunting down dinner, crocodiles are very determined . . . and very cunning. But there’s more to crocodiles than just their appetites. They love to nap on warm sandbanks and cool off in calm waters, and crocodile mothers are very gentle with their babies. This fascinating look at one of Earth’s most infamous creatures is full of information for amateur scientists, with back matter that includes an index, notes on species, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Peter Godwin
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316032093
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When a Crocodile Eats the Sun written by Peter Godwin and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.

Author : Bernard Waber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395137208
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile written by Bernard Waber and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1965 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St. until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that.

Author : Qiu Miaojin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137076X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes of a Crocodile written by Qiu Miaojin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

Author : Faustin Charles
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408839318
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selfish Crocodile written by Faustin Charles and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the animals are afraid of the Selfish Crocodile - he never let's them into his river, and he's always so snappy! And so when the Selfish Crocodile finds himself in terrible pain, no-one wants to help him - after all, what if he gobbles them up? But, to everyone's surprise, there is one animal in the forest who is willing to help . . . A brilliant tale of friendship, The Selfish Crocodile has become a picture book classic.

Author : Sarah Weeks
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060557451
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crocodile Smile Book and CD written by Sarah Weeks and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten songs about animals such as "I've never eaten a princess" in which a komodo dragon bemoans the damage fairy tales have done to his reputation.