The Flight Of The Golden Bird

Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 1782500278
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flight of the Golden Bird written by Duncan Williamson and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duncan Williamson, one of Scotland's Travelling People, has been celebrated as the bearer of Scotland's greatest national treasure: the richest trove of story and song in Europe. In this collection, he passes on some of these wonderful children's folk and fairy tales, collected from sixty years of travelling around Scotland. This collection includes stories about silver horses and golden birds, cunning lions and trilling nightingales, brave princesses and magic scarecrows, the four seasons and old Father Time. At the heart of each story is a lesson about life and what it means to be a good person. The stories have been written down as faithfully as possible to Duncan's unique storytelling voice, full of colour, humour and life.

Author : Susan Klaus
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 076533755X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Golden Harpy written by Susan Klaus and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to the jungle planet of Dora after a decade of Earth schooling, Kari, who in childhood was rescued by a male golden harpy, investigates the harpy species to challenge local beliefs that they are predatory creatures and should be destroyed. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Tanjas Darke
Publisher : Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781844544196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Dancing Bird written by Tanjas Darke and published by Metro Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With honesty and inspirational courage, Tanjas Darke offers a rare insight into the reality of dominance and mind games played by abusers, in this case her own father. More importantly she shows how the cycle can be broken and the abuser brought to justice. She relives her father's trial and describes her feelings while giving evidence against him. This is an extraordinary yet ultimately positive story which was made into a television documentary with the aim to give other abuse victims a message of hope while also providing a deeper understanding of a situation that seems incomprehensible and inescapable. Her story will remain in the heart and mind of every reader long after the book has been finished.

Author : Maria Thompson Daviess
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bird written by Maria Thompson Daviess and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1918 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pat Shipman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684849658
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Wing written by Pat Shipman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-01-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hidden in the Bavarian region of Germany was a fossil skeleton so exquisitely preserved that its wings and feathers were as obvious as its reptilian jaws and tail. This transitional creature offered tangible proof of Darwin's theory of evolution. Hailed as the First Bird, Archaeopteryx has remained the subject of heated debates for the last 140 years. Are birds actually living dinosaurs? Where does the fossil record really lead? Did flight originate from the "ground up" or "trees down"? Pat Shipman traces the age-old human desire to soar above the earth and to understand what has come before us. Taking Wing is science as adventure story, told with all the drama by which scientific understanding unfolds.

Author : Pete Dunne
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0358164079
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird Families of North America written by Pete Dunne and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on families and their shared traits makes bird identification easier than ever. This guide takes readers beyond merely identifying birds to understanding them. Many birders can tell the difference between a White-eyed and Bell's Vireo but cannot begin to describe a vireo and what distinguishes members of this family from warblers or flycatchers. The "species by species" approach makes it difficult to appreciate birds for what they are: members of well-organized groupings united by common traits. Putting the focus on families, and their shared characteristics, makes bird identification easier and more meaningful. More than 150 color photos illustrate the 81 bird families of the United States and Canada.

Author : Edith Balas
Publisher : Carnegie Mellon Nonfiction
ISBN 13 : 9780887485381
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird in Flight written by Edith Balas and published by Carnegie Mellon Nonfiction. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bird in Flight: Memoir of a Survivor and Scholar, Professor of Art History Edith Balas recounts her life from Transylvania, to Auschwitz, to respected art historian.

Author : Seon Master Subul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614295522
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace written by Seon Master Subul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penetrate the nature of mind with this contemporary Korean take on a classic of Zen literature. The message of the Tang-dynasty Zen text in this volume seems simple: to gain enlightenment, stop thinking there is something you need to practice. For the Chinese master Huangbo Xiyun (d. 850), the mind is enlightenment itself if we can only let go of our normal way of thinking. The celebrated translation of this work by John Blofeld, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, introduced countless readers to Zen over the last sixty years. Huangbo’s work is also a favorite of contemporary Zen (Korean: Seon) Master Subul, who has revolutionized the strict monastic practice of koans and adapted it for lay meditators in Korea and around the world to make swift progress in intense but informal retreats. Devoting themselves to enigmatic questions with their whole bodies, retreatants are frustrated in their search for answers and arrive thereby at a breakthrough experience of their own buddha nature. A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace is a bracing call for the practitioner to let go and thinking and unlock the buddha within.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316088714
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Dodo written by Peter Brown and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Penguin gets pooped on by a flying goose, he doesn't just get angry--he decides to do something about it. Penguin and his flightless friends set out to build a flying machine that will give them the bird's eye view they've never had in this picture book. Illustrations.

Author : Liam Heneghan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643141X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beasts at Bedtime written by Liam Heneghan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] fresh new look at animal tales, often classic, and how they pertain to the present-day and our often fraught relationship to our environment.” —Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books, however, also lie profound teachings about the natural world that can help children develop an educated and engaged appreciation of the dynamic environment they inhabit. In Beasts at Bedtime, scientist (and father) Liam Heneghan examines the environmental underpinnings of children’s stories. From Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, Heneghan unearths the universal insights into our inextricable relationship with nature that underlie so many classic children’s stories. Some of the largest environmental challenges in coming years—from climate instability, the extinction crisis, freshwater depletion, and deforestation—are likely to become even more severe as this generation of children grows up. Though today’s young readers will bear the brunt of these environmental calamities, they will also be able to contribute to environmental solutions if prepared properly. And all it takes is an attentive eye: Heneghan shows how the nature curriculum is already embedded in bedtime stories, from the earliest board books like The Rainbow Fish to contemporary young adult classics like The Hunger Games. This book enthralls as it engages. Beasts at Bedtime will help parents, teachers, and guardians extend those cozy times curled up together with a good book into a lifetime of caring for our planet. “Beasts at Bedtime is proof that most kidlit has teachable moments embedded in it.” —Toronto Star