Author: Mat Gardener
Publisher: Martin J. Hibbs
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This book is largely a scene setting introduction for the ones that follow and covers a time when the house where the CREATURES OF THE WILDERNESS live, changes hands. This results in the creatures' lives being turned upside down, because the new owners of the property decide to redesign the garden and tidy it up (threatening the creatures very existence). Fortunately for the creatures involved, Mr Green and Bernie Beetle join forces in an effort to stop the garden being cleared. Being the third book in the CREATURES OF THE WILDERNESS series, this book along with the others in this series, has been designed to teach children about life issues, their personal safety and the environment, using both human and animal characters such as Bernie Beetle and Mr Green the gardener as role models. This particular book has been purposely designed to show children and others just how much of an impact the redevelopment of land can have upon local wildlife.
Creatures in Peril
Author: Mat Gardener
Publisher: Martin J. Hibbs
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This book is largely a scene setting introduction for the ones that follow and covers a time when the house where the CREATURES OF THE WILDERNESS live, changes hands. This results in the creatures' lives being turned upside down, because the new owners of the property decide to redesign the garden and tidy it up (threatening the creatures very existence). Fortunately for the creatures involved, Mr Green and Bernie Beetle join forces in an effort to stop the garden being cleared. Being the third book in the CREATURES OF THE WILDERNESS series, this book along with the others in this series, has been designed to teach children about life issues, their personal safety and the environment, using both human and animal characters such as Bernie Beetle and Mr Green the gardener as role models. This particular book has been purposely designed to show children and others just how much of an impact the redevelopment of land can have upon local wildlife.
Publisher: Martin J. Hibbs
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This book is largely a scene setting introduction for the ones that follow and covers a time when the house where the CREATURES OF THE WILDERNESS live, changes hands. This results in the creatures' lives being turned upside down, because the new owners of the property decide to redesign the garden and tidy it up (threatening the creatures very existence). Fortunately for the creatures involved, Mr Green and Bernie Beetle join forces in an effort to stop the garden being cleared. Being the third book in the CREATURES OF THE WILDERNESS series, this book along with the others in this series, has been designed to teach children about life issues, their personal safety and the environment, using both human and animal characters such as Bernie Beetle and Mr Green the gardener as role models. This particular book has been purposely designed to show children and others just how much of an impact the redevelopment of land can have upon local wildlife.
Animals in Peril
Author: John Arthur Hoyt
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780895296481
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Argues that the theory that endangered species must pay their own way to survive is a political expediency used to justify legalized killing in the name of conservation
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780895296481
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Argues that the theory that endangered species must pay their own way to survive is a political expediency used to justify legalized killing in the name of conservation
Animals in Peril
Author: David Grainger
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Red Alert! Endangered Animals Around the World
Author: Catherine Barr
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1632897318
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
An interactive look at endangered animals imploring readers to discover fifteen species facing extinction. Inspired and endorsed by the "Red List" database of animals in peril maintained by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this brightly illustrated book introduces species from six different habitats on six continents. Blending approachable text, secondary facts and lush art, Red Alert! offers full portraits of animals such as the Chinese giant salamander, the snow leopard, the blue whale, and the giant panda, and provides young activists additional resources for how they can help save these beautiful creatures.
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1632897318
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
An interactive look at endangered animals imploring readers to discover fifteen species facing extinction. Inspired and endorsed by the "Red List" database of animals in peril maintained by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this brightly illustrated book introduces species from six different habitats on six continents. Blending approachable text, secondary facts and lush art, Red Alert! offers full portraits of animals such as the Chinese giant salamander, the snow leopard, the blue whale, and the giant panda, and provides young activists additional resources for how they can help save these beautiful creatures.
Animals in Peril
Author: Peter Verney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book is a history of mankind's war against animals, detailing the hunting to extinction or near extinction of animals, using as examples species or sub-species of whale, fur-bearing animals, buffalo, elephants, birds, and big-game animals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book is a history of mankind's war against animals, detailing the hunting to extinction or near extinction of animals, using as examples species or sub-species of whale, fur-bearing animals, buffalo, elephants, birds, and big-game animals.
Plesiosaur Peril
Author: Daniel Loxton
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771382988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A group of plesiosaurs — ocean-dwelling cousins of the dinosaurs — keeps safe by swimming in a family pod. But then one baby plesiosaur swims too far from its mother and attracts the attention of something very large and very hungry, and the struggle for survival is on. A unique blend of digital artwork and landscape photography illustrates this thrilling encounter.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771382988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A group of plesiosaurs — ocean-dwelling cousins of the dinosaurs — keeps safe by swimming in a family pod. But then one baby plesiosaur swims too far from its mother and attracts the attention of something very large and very hungry, and the struggle for survival is on. A unique blend of digital artwork and landscape photography illustrates this thrilling encounter.
A Peculiar Peril
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374308896
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374308896
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.
Prince of Peril
Author: Otis Adelbert Kline
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612103901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Sequel to Planet of Peril, the story of Rorgen Takkor's adventures on Venus, Rorgen Takkor, born on Mars, transferred to Earth for a decade, and finally finding his career and place on Venus.excerpt"Good-bye, men and good luck to you."My awakening, after I lay down on the cot in Dr. Morgan's observatory, was quite sudden and startling. It seemed that not more than a few seconds had elapsed since I had heard the doctor's parting words to Grandon and myself.I opened my eyes and sat up abruptly with an inexplicable sense of impending danger. My first glimpse of my surroundings convinced me that I had indeed arrived on Venus. The magnificent riot of vegetation surrounding me--vegetation the like of which I had not seen on Mars, the red, barren planet of my birth, nor on Earth, the more recent planet of my adoption--was sufficient evidence.I was seated on a bank of soft, violet-colored moss which sloped gently to a limpid pool at my feet. The feathery fronds of a giant bush-fern arched above my head, some of them dipping to the surface of the water, where they were snapped at from time to time by playful, grotesque, multi-colored amphibians.I was dressed in garments of shimmering, scarlet material. There was a broad, golden chain-belt about my waist, with a jeweled clasp in front. Riveted to this belt on the right side was an oblong instrument about two feet in length, with a button near the upper end, a small lever on the side, and a tiny hole in the lower end. I had no idea what it was for; but I recognized the weapon which hung at my left side, as it resembled a scimitar. As I was examining the ruby-studded hilt of this beautiful weapon, a noise at my left attracted my attention.Cautiously, without turning my head, I glanced from the corners of my eyes across a stretch of shrubbery to where a high wall of black stone surrounded this estate, and hid the country beyond. Just on the other side of the wall a tall fern-tree spread its mighty fronds. It must have been the cracking of one of these that had attracted my attention, for a heavy-set individual with a coarse red beard, cut off square below the chin, had climbed out on it to a point where it would no longer sustain his weight, in an effort to reach the top of the wall.Someone in the shrubbery quite near me called a whispered warning to him--or such I took it to be, for the language was unknown to me, and I could only judge by the tones. The huge intruder was much more agile than he appeared, for he flung an arm over the top of the wall and drew himself up with catlike quickness. As he struck the wall there was a metallic clank which, I saw as soon as he came into full view, was from an edged weapon at his side, quite like my own but with a less ornate hilt and broader blade.As soon as the red-bearded man reached the top of the wall, the one who had whispered from the bushes cautiously stood up. He was smaller and more wiry than the first, and his beard, which was iron-gray in color, was trimmed in the same manner.Red-beard tiptoed stealthily along the top of the wall, glancing toward me from time to time as if fearful that I would hear him or turn toward him. Then he leaned out, caught his fingers in a tall cone-shaped growth, swung his sandaled feet out, and descended.I wondered if it could be possible that these two prowlers were bent on injury to me, a total stranger on Venus. Then it dawned on me that they could easily be mortal enemies of the prince with whom I had exchanged bodies, and that I--so far as their knowledge went--was that prince.
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612103901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Sequel to Planet of Peril, the story of Rorgen Takkor's adventures on Venus, Rorgen Takkor, born on Mars, transferred to Earth for a decade, and finally finding his career and place on Venus.excerpt"Good-bye, men and good luck to you."My awakening, after I lay down on the cot in Dr. Morgan's observatory, was quite sudden and startling. It seemed that not more than a few seconds had elapsed since I had heard the doctor's parting words to Grandon and myself.I opened my eyes and sat up abruptly with an inexplicable sense of impending danger. My first glimpse of my surroundings convinced me that I had indeed arrived on Venus. The magnificent riot of vegetation surrounding me--vegetation the like of which I had not seen on Mars, the red, barren planet of my birth, nor on Earth, the more recent planet of my adoption--was sufficient evidence.I was seated on a bank of soft, violet-colored moss which sloped gently to a limpid pool at my feet. The feathery fronds of a giant bush-fern arched above my head, some of them dipping to the surface of the water, where they were snapped at from time to time by playful, grotesque, multi-colored amphibians.I was dressed in garments of shimmering, scarlet material. There was a broad, golden chain-belt about my waist, with a jeweled clasp in front. Riveted to this belt on the right side was an oblong instrument about two feet in length, with a button near the upper end, a small lever on the side, and a tiny hole in the lower end. I had no idea what it was for; but I recognized the weapon which hung at my left side, as it resembled a scimitar. As I was examining the ruby-studded hilt of this beautiful weapon, a noise at my left attracted my attention.Cautiously, without turning my head, I glanced from the corners of my eyes across a stretch of shrubbery to where a high wall of black stone surrounded this estate, and hid the country beyond. Just on the other side of the wall a tall fern-tree spread its mighty fronds. It must have been the cracking of one of these that had attracted my attention, for a heavy-set individual with a coarse red beard, cut off square below the chin, had climbed out on it to a point where it would no longer sustain his weight, in an effort to reach the top of the wall.Someone in the shrubbery quite near me called a whispered warning to him--or such I took it to be, for the language was unknown to me, and I could only judge by the tones. The huge intruder was much more agile than he appeared, for he flung an arm over the top of the wall and drew himself up with catlike quickness. As he struck the wall there was a metallic clank which, I saw as soon as he came into full view, was from an edged weapon at his side, quite like my own but with a less ornate hilt and broader blade.As soon as the red-bearded man reached the top of the wall, the one who had whispered from the bushes cautiously stood up. He was smaller and more wiry than the first, and his beard, which was iron-gray in color, was trimmed in the same manner.Red-beard tiptoed stealthily along the top of the wall, glancing toward me from time to time as if fearful that I would hear him or turn toward him. Then he leaned out, caught his fingers in a tall cone-shaped growth, swung his sandaled feet out, and descended.I wondered if it could be possible that these two prowlers were bent on injury to me, a total stranger on Venus. Then it dawned on me that they could easily be mortal enemies of the prince with whom I had exchanged bodies, and that I--so far as their knowledge went--was that prince.
Peril in the Ponds
Author: Judith Cairncross Helgen
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 1558499466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
When deformed frogs-many with missing legs or eyes, footless stumps, or misshapen jaws-began to emerge from Minnesota wetlands, alarm bells went off. What caused such deformities? Pollution? Ultraviolet rays? Biological agents? And could the mysterious cause also pose a threat to humans? Former government biologist Judy Helgen provides an inside view of a highly charged environmental issue that continues to spark controversy among scientists, politicians, and government agencies. Book jacket.
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 1558499466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
When deformed frogs-many with missing legs or eyes, footless stumps, or misshapen jaws-began to emerge from Minnesota wetlands, alarm bells went off. What caused such deformities? Pollution? Ultraviolet rays? Biological agents? And could the mysterious cause also pose a threat to humans? Former government biologist Judy Helgen provides an inside view of a highly charged environmental issue that continues to spark controversy among scientists, politicians, and government agencies. Book jacket.
At the Hand of Man
Author: Raymond Bonner
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307830594
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Defying conventional wisdom even as it makes an impassioned plea for moral common sense, this book by an award-winning journalist sheds a new light on the history and politics of the African conservation movement. The book will anger and inspire anyone who cares about African wildlife and the people whose future is intertwined with the fate of these animals.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307830594
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Defying conventional wisdom even as it makes an impassioned plea for moral common sense, this book by an award-winning journalist sheds a new light on the history and politics of the African conservation movement. The book will anger and inspire anyone who cares about African wildlife and the people whose future is intertwined with the fate of these animals.