The Cloud Walker

Author : Edmund Cooper
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575116447
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cloud Walker written by Edmund Cooper and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civilizations of the First and Second Man have been destroyed by the products of their own technology. Now the world is emerging from a new dark age into the dawn of a second Middle Ages. Britain is dominated by a Luddite Church and by the doctrine that all machines are evil. Into this strange world comes Kieron, an artist's apprentice who is inflamed by a forbidden dream - to construct a flying machine which will enable man to soar through the air like a bird.

Author : Edmund Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345032096
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cloud Walker written by Edmund Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civilizations of the First and Second Man have been destroyed by their own technology. Now the world is emerging from a new dark age into the dawn of the second middle ages. Britain is dominated by the doctrine that all machines are evil. Into this strange world comes Kieron, who has a dream to construct a flying machine which will enable man to soar through the air like a bird.

Author : Robert Budd
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550176218
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cloudwalker written by Robert Budd and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloudwalker, describing the creation of the rivers, is the second in a series of Northwest Coast legends by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd. Their previous collaboration, Raven Brings the Light (2013), is a national bestseller. On British Columbia’s northwest coast lies the Sacred Headwaters—the source of three of British Columbia’s largest salmon-bearing rivers. These rivers are the source of life for all creatures in the area. But what gave life to the rivers themselves? Astace, a young Gitxsan hunter, is intent on catching a group of swans with his bare hands. He is carried away by the birds’ powerful wings and dropped in the clouds. With only a cedar box of water Astace wanders the clouds, growing weaker, stumbling and spilling the contents. When he finally returns to earth he discovers lakes, creeks, and rivers where there were none before. The Gitxsan rejoice at having him home, and name the new river they live alongside Ksien—“juice from the clouds.” Roy Henry Vickers’ vibrant artwork, including 18 new prints, accompany this new retelling of an ancient story—readers of all ages will be captivated.

Author : Rob D. Walker
Publisher : Blue Sky Press (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 9780439688796
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Cloud written by Rob D. Walker and published by Blue Sky Press (AZ). This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text invites the reader to muse on the origin and nature of clouds.

Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832240
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riddley Walker written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.

Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373576
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cloud Atlas written by David Mitchell and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity. Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

Author : Roy Henry Vickers
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550177400
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Dancer written by Roy Henry Vickers and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The children of the Tsimshian village of Kitkatla love to play at being hunters, eager for their turn to join the grown-ups. But when they capture and mistreat a crow, the Chief of the Heavens, angered at their disrespect, brings down a powerful storm. The rain floods the Earth and villagers have no choice but to abandon their homes and flee to their canoes. As the seas rise, the villagers tie themselves to the top of Anchor Mountain, where they pray for days on end and promise to teach their children to value all life. The storm stops and the waters recede. From that point on, the villagers appoint a chief to perform the Peace Dance at every potlatch and, with it, pass on the story of the flood and the importance of respect. With eighteen new illustrations from Roy Henry Vickers and exceptional narrative, Peace Dancer will delight readers of all ages and add to the collection of global flood stories.

Author : Anthony Browne
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763694983
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willy and the Cloud written by Anthony Browne and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One warm, sunny day, Willy the Chimp decides to go to the park. There's not a cloud in the sky--well, except for just a little tiny one. It doesn't bother Willy too much at first. But as the cloud follows him, it grows bigger and bigger and becomes harder and harder to ignore. Pretty soon the cloud is all Willy can think about, and he has no idea how to make it go away.

Author : Edmund Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340194782
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cloud Walker written by Edmund Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Samuel Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520239401
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Mile Island written by J. Samuel Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 28, 1979, the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States occurred at Three Mile Island. For five days, the citizens of central Pennsylvania and the entire world, amid growing alarm, followed the efforts of authorities to prevent the crippled plant from spewing dangerous quantities of radiation into the environment. This book is the first comprehensive, moment-by-moment account of the causes, context, and consequences of the Three Mile Island crisis. Walker captures the high human drama surrounding the accident, sets it in the context of the heated debate over nuclear power in the seventies, and analyzes the social, technical, and political issues it raised. He also looks at the aftermath of the accident on the surrounding area, including studies of its long-term health effects on the population.--From publisher description.