Flight By Elephant

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007542364
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight By Elephant: The Untold Story of World War II’s Most Daring Jungle Rescue written by Andrew Martin and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission.

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Isis Large Print Books
ISBN 13 : 9780753153444
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight by Elephant written by Andrew Martin and published by Isis Large Print Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1942, Gyles Mackrell - a decorated First World War pilot and tea plantation overseer, performed a series of heroic rescues in the hellish jungles of Japanese-occupied Burma - with the aid of 20 elephants. At the age of 53, Mackrell went into the Chaukan Pass on the border of North Burma and Assam. Here, Mackrell and a team of elephant riders rescued Indian army soldiers, British civilians and their Indian servants, from the pursuing Japanese, directing the elephants through jungle passes and raging rivers, and territory infested with sand flies, mosquitoes and innumerable leeches. Those he saved were all on the point of death from starvation or fever: that summer was spent in a fight against time.

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753153451
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight by Elephant written by Andrew Martin and published by . This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1942, Gyles Mackrell - a decorated First World War pilot and tea plantation overseer, performed a series of heroic rescues in the hellish jungles of Japanese-occupied Burma - with the aid of 20 elephants. At the age of 53, Mackrell went into the Chaukan Pass on the border of North Burma and Assam. Here, Mackrell and a team of elephant riders rescued Indian army soldiers, British civilians and their Indian servants, from the pursuing Japanese, directing the elephants through jungle passes and raging rivers, and territory infested with sand flies, mosquitoes and innumerable leeches. Those he saved were all on the point of death from starvation or fever: that summer was spent in a fight against time.

Author : Hilton Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephant in Flight written by Hilton Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Una Belle Townsend
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781455615827
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Elephant Escape, The written by Una Belle Townsend and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two baby elephants escaped from the circus in 1975, it took eighteen days to find them. The authorities searched all over, but they were always one step behind this sneaky pair of fugitives. This colorful picture book follows these giant hide-and-seekers throughout Oklahoma as they evade capture for as long as they can.

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307762734
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant Vanishes written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display. In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between separate realities—and comes back bearing remarkable treasures. Includes the story "Barn Burning," which is the basis for the major motion picture Burning.

Author : Mo Willems
Publisher : Elephant and Piggie
ISBN 13 : 9781406338485
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Today I Will Fly! written by Mo Willems and published by Elephant and Piggie. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are one of a series of delightfully humorous award-winning tales for beginner readers from an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator. Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In "Today I will Fly!" Piggie wants to fly. But Gerald knows that she cannot - or can she?

Author : Dan Richards
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442452153
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can One Balloon Make an Elephant Fly? written by Dan Richards and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother takes her son to the zoo to answer his science question.

Author : Gary B. Fogel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187816
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quest for Flight written by Gary B. Fogel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that history’s nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the Wrights waged to profit from their aeroplane patent and create a monopoly in aviation. Countering the aspersions cast on Montgomery and his work, Harwood and Fogel build a solidly documented case for Montgomery’s pioneering role in aeronautical innovation. As a scientist researching the laws of flight, Montgomery invented basic methods of aircraft control and stability, refined his theories in aerodynamics over decades of research, and brought widespread attention to aviation by staging public demonstrations of his gliders. After his first flights near San Diego in the 1880s, his pursuit continued through a series of glider designs. These experiments culminated in 1905 with controlled flights in Northern California using tandem-wing Montgomery gliders launched from balloons. These flights reached the highest altitudes yet attained, demonstrated the effectiveness of Montgomery’s designs, and helped change society’s attitude toward what was considered “the impossible art” of aerial navigation. Inventors and aviators working west of the Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century have not received the recognition they deserve. Harwood and Fogel place Montgomery’s story and his exploits in the broader context of western aviation and science, shedding new light on the reasons that California was the epicenter of the American aviation industry from the very beginning.

Author : Kyoko Nemoto
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0141388404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Fly Like An Elephant written by Kyoko Nemoto and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows elephants can't fly: they're too heavy, and they have no wings! But what happens when three elephants work together to design a flying machine? How to Fly Like an Elephant combines an introduction to design and engineering with a timeless story about persistence and teamwork. Featuring interactive folding elements and flaps, the elephants will need YOUR help to finally get off the ground in this first picture book from Puffin and the V&A Museum. Published in association with the V&A Musuem, your purchase helps the V&A to enrich people's lives as the world's leading museum of art and design.