The Wild Boy

Author : Mary Losure
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763663697
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Boy written by Mary Losure and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when society finds a wild boy alone in the woods and tries to civilize him? A true story from the author of The Fairy Ring. One day in 1798, woodsmen in southern France returned from the forest having captured a naked boy. He had been running wild, digging for food, and was covered with scars. In the village square, people gathered around, gaping and jabbering in words the boy didn’t understand. And so began the curious public life of the boy known as the Savage of Aveyron, whose journey took him all the way to Paris. Though the wild boy’s world was forever changed, some things stayed the same: sometimes, when the mountain winds blew, “he looked up at the sky, made sounds deep in his throat, and gave great bursts of laughter.” In a moving work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a novel, Mary Losure invests another compelling story from history with vivid and arresting new life. Back matter includes an author’s note, source notes, and a bibliography.

Author : Paolo Cognetti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501196731
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Boy written by Paolo Cognetti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man escapes his painful past by retreating to the rustic comfort of the Italian Alps in this gorgeously wrought memoir from the internationally bestselling author of the “exquisite” (Annie Proulx) novel The Eight Mountains. When life in the city becomes too overwhelming for Paolo, he decides to take refuge high in the Italian mountains. Returning to the breathtaking Valle d’Aosta—known for its snowcapped mountain peaks—after a decade’s absence, he rediscovers a simpler life and develops deep human connections with two neighbors. In this stunning landscape, he begins to take stock of his life and consider what he truly values. With lyrical and evocative prose, The Wild Boy is a testament to the power of the natural world, the necessity of an ever-questioning mind, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Author : Andy Taylor
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1409111164
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Boy written by Andy Taylor and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first member of Duran Duran to write his memoirs tells the full story of the excesses, glamour and excitement they lived through in the 1980s. When 19-year-old Andy Taylor returned from his band's tour of military bases in Germany and saw an advert in Melody Maker in April 1980 asking for a 'live wire guitarist' to audition in Birmingham, he saw his chance. Even he could not have predicted what happened next. The group, Duran Duran, released their first single, 'Planet Earth', ten months later and soon became the biggest band since the Beatles. Emerging in the post-punk era, Duran headed the New Romantic movement and with their stunning videos and style consciousness, they set the trend for the consumerist 1980s. Popular with everyone from rockers to Princess Diana, they had a string of massive worldwide hits such as 'Rio', 'The Reflex' and 'A View to a Kill'. They won Grammys and an Ivor Novello award among many other things. By Live Aid, in 1985, they were at their very pinnacle of success - and then the band began to fall apart. At the centre of it all, giving the group its musical pulse, was lead guitarist Andy Taylor. In this revealing and raw memoir, Taylor recalls the highs and lows of an unbelievable period where the squeaky clean facade hid the truth of wild partying as five young men took just about every opportunity that was offered to them. Andy Taylor's story is of an era when MTV was new, the media allowed superstars to get away with lots and rock stars knew how to party like there was no tomorrow. Wild Boy is a book that millions of fans of Duran Duran around the world will want to read to know the full story of what really happened.

Author : Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Boy of Aveyron written by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1962 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full account of Dr. Jean-Marc Itard's work, in the early 1800s, with Victor, who had lived wild for twelve years, and of the resulting educational, psychological, anthropological, and philosophical controversies and changes.

Author : Brando Yelavich
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780143772453
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildboy written by Brando Yelavich and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had a really BIG dream. I wanted to go on a MASSIVE adventure! This is the true story of Brando Yelavich, also known as Wildboy, who slept in a tent, hunted and fished for his food and came up close to seals and sharks on his 8000 km journey around the coast of New Zealand. His epic story will capture the imagination of any kid who, like Brando, longs for adventure in the great outdoors. Throughout the book readers will fall in love with the amazing scenery and enjoy spotting the New Zealand wildlife. And they'll have loads of fun finding the compass hidden on every page!

Author : Jill Dawson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 184894781X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Boy written by Jill Dawson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 18th-century France, a child is captured in the forests near Aveyron where he seems to have been living wild for seven years. Now 12 years old, the Wild Boy is put on public display as a freak, and finally handed over to the ambitious, emotionally repressed Doctor Itard, who is charged with educating the boy, whom he names Victor, and trying to discover the secrets of his strange, secret life. But Victor soon becomes a pawn in the raging debate about nature vs nurture, and Itard's attempts to civilise him bear little fruit. Instead, Victor seems drawn to Mme Guerin, his motherly guardian - and to her vivacious daughter, Julie, who is herself falling for Itard as he struggles to understand both Victor and his own confused emotions. Giving a vivid sense of the Revolutionary period, the novel brings to life through the stories of three fascinating characters a mysterious case that resonates in the modern day preoccupation with autism.

Author : James Lincoln Collier
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620646846
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Boy written by James Lincoln Collier and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rousing coming-of-age story set on the American frontier, one ornery twelve-year-old has a lot to learn if he's to survive his new life as a mountain man. Having run away after hitting Pa in a bout of rage, Jesse decides to fend for himself. Too much uncontrollable anger and inexplicable emotion since Ma went away have taken their toll. All he wants now is to be left alone. At first, every day on the mountain is a struggle. Beset by hunger and cold, fear and loneliness, Jesse stubbornly and defiantly refuses to concede defeat. Gradually, he learns to hunt, to skin and cure animal pelts, to build a cabin ... all skills necessary to life in the wilderness. He takes on a mad mountaineer and even helps kill a bear. In so doing, Jesse slowly gains confidence and insight beyond his years. "I was watching me turn myself into a mountain man." An action-packed adventure proves a provocative voyage of self-discovery as one young boy observes the best and worst in nature, people, and himself.

Author : Mary Losure
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763659657
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fairy Ring written by Mary Losure and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchanting true story of a girl who saw fairies, and another with a gift for art, who concocted a story to stay out of trouble and ended up fooling the world. Frances was nine when she first saw the fairies. They were tiny men, dressed all in green. Nobody but Frances saw them, so her cousin Elsie painted paper fairies and took photographs of them “dancing” around Frances to make the grown-ups stop teasing. The girls promised each other they would never, ever tell that the photos weren’t real. But how were Frances and Elsie supposed to know that their photographs would fall into the hands of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? And who would have dreamed that the man who created the famous detective Sherlock Holmes believed ardently in fairies — and wanted very much to see one? Mary Losure presents this enthralling true story as a fanciful narrative featuring the original Cottingley fairy photos and previously unpublished drawings and images from the family’s archives. A delight for everyone with a fondness for fairies, and for anyone who has ever started something that spun out of control. Back matter includes source notes and a bibliography.

Author : Roger Shattuck
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
ISBN 13 : 9781568360485
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forbidden Experiment written by Roger Shattuck and published by Kodansha Globe. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting account by an award-winning cultural historian that addresses still pertinent issues, such as nature vs. nurture, the acquisition of language in children, and the socialization of deaf and mute children.

Author : Nancy Springer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101563486
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Boy written by Nancy Springer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the Sheriff of Nottingham killed his father, Rook has run wild in Sherwood Forest, dreaming of his day for vengeance. Finally, he has found his chance. Not with the sheriff himself, but with the evil man’s son, snared by one of the mantraps his own father planted to catch outlaws such as Rook. Filled with clashes of sword and emotion, this page-turning installment in Nancy Springer’s Tales of Rowan Hood series will leave readers eager to return to Sherwood, where outlaws are often innocent, and survival is no game.