A Year On The Bog

Author : Jeanne Willis
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718194020
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bog Baby written by Jeanne Willis and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two small sisters go fishing to the magic pond, they find something much better than a frog or a newt. They find a bog baby. Small and blue with wings like a dragon, the girls decide to make him their secret. I won't tell if you won't. But the bog baby is a wild thing, and when he becomes poorly, the girls decide they must tell their mum. And she tells them the greatest lesson, if you really love something, you have to let it go.

Author : P.V. Glob
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170908
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bog People written by P.V. Glob and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility. Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age. Includes 76 black-and-white photographs.

Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954321335
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bog written by Michael Talbot and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hovern Bog. People live in terror of it-especially the residents of Fenchurch St. Jude, the little village located at its edge. They think of it as a living being. They've seen it reach out with sinewy tentacles . . . to take, entangle, and digest. When 2000-year-old bodies are recovered from the bog, perfectly preserved, it is the discovery of a lifetime for archaeologist David Macauley. But close examination of the corpses reveals a curious fact: all were cruelly, mysteriously murdered, gnawed to death by some unimaginable creature. Soon it becomes apparent that whatever tortured and killed the bodies from ancient times still roams the bog, and no one in Fenchurch St. Jude - especially David and his family - is safe. In The Bog (1986), Michael Talbot (1953-1992), author of the vampire classic The Delicate Dependency and the chilling haunted house novel Night Things, delivers an exciting mix of science and the supernatural that will keep readers guessing until the horrific climax. "One of the better horror novels . . . odd and risky mingling of pure science with fairy lore and gnashed bodies . . . terrific." -- Kirkus Reviews "Exciting!" -- Publishers Weekly "Convincingly original!" -- Ocala Star-Banner

Author : Phyllis Root
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816666829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Belching Bog written by Phyllis Root and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold, wet, and acidic, bogs appear to be extremely hostile to life, yet numerous plants and animals have adapted in fascinating ways in order to survive there. In Big Belching Bog, Phyllis Root lets us in on the secrets of the mysterious bog, describing such special inhabitants as plants that eat insects, bog lemmings, and frogs that stay frozen through the winter and thaw out in the spring. But what's that coming up from the bottom of the bog? The biggest bog secret of all, we learn, is the remarkable process of methane gas belching out of the bog. The gas is created by decaying peat moss and forms a bulge in the surface of the moss six inches or taller before breaking through. Does this "belch" make a sound? No one knows, says Root, because no one has ever heard it. In fact, bogs are known as some of the quietest places on earth. Maybe you will be the first to hear the big bog belch! Illustrated by renowned woodcut artist Betsy Bowen, Big Belching Bog also contains a section of bog facts, including more information about the plants and animals mentioned in the book as well as tips for visiting a bog. Big Belching Bog will stir the imagination of young readers and teach them about the landscape and environment of these mysterious and, ahem, gassy places.

Author : John Himmelman
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1570915172
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frog in a Bog written by John Himmelman and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features animals, insects, and plants in a bog.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year ..., Abridg'd and Dispos'd Under General Heads written by and published by . This book was released on 1731 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melanie Giles
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526150174
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog bodies written by Melanie Giles and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. But, as this book argues, the bodies must be resituated within a turbulent world of endemic violence and change. Reinterpreting the latest continental research and new discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking ‘cold case’ forensic study of Worsley Man, Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’, it brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. The book also argues that these remains do not just pose practical conservation problems but also philosophical dilemmas, compounded by the critical debate on if – and how – they should be displayed.

Author : Karin Sanders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734048
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination written by Karin Sanders and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few centuries, northern Europe’s bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary—and ongoing—cultural journey. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and science as material metaphors for such concepts as trauma, nostalgia, and identity. Sigmund Freud, Joseph Beuys, Seamus Heaney, and other major figures have used them to reconsider fundamental philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and scientific concerns. Exploring this intellectual spectrum, Sanders contends that the power of bog bodies to provoke such a wide range of responses is rooted in their unique status as both archeological artifacts and human beings. They emerge as corporeal time capsules that transcend archaeology to challenge our assumptions about what we can know about the past. By restoring them to the roster of cultural phenomena that force us to confront our ethical and aesthetic boundaries, Bodies in the Bog excavates anew the question of what it means to be human.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Cranberry Growers' Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Cranberry Growers' Association written by American Cranberry Growers' Association and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: