Author: Bruce Kirkby
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771095678
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
For fifteen years, Kirkby navigated an uncertain and uncommon path, embarking on some of the most challenging expeditions the world has to offer. Whether it’s gun fights and crocodile attacks while running Africa’s Blue Nile Gorge or rescuing a fallen sherpa on Mount Everest, Kirkby shares the excitement, doubts, and insights of a life lived on the edge.
The Dolphin's Tooth
Author: Bruce Kirkby
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771095678
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
For fifteen years, Kirkby navigated an uncertain and uncommon path, embarking on some of the most challenging expeditions the world has to offer. Whether it’s gun fights and crocodile attacks while running Africa’s Blue Nile Gorge or rescuing a fallen sherpa on Mount Everest, Kirkby shares the excitement, doubts, and insights of a life lived on the edge.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771095678
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
For fifteen years, Kirkby navigated an uncertain and uncommon path, embarking on some of the most challenging expeditions the world has to offer. Whether it’s gun fights and crocodile attacks while running Africa’s Blue Nile Gorge or rescuing a fallen sherpa on Mount Everest, Kirkby shares the excitement, doubts, and insights of a life lived on the edge.
To Free a Dolphin
Author: Keith Coulbourn
Publisher: Renaissance Books
ISBN: 1250099838
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this memorable first book, Behind the Dolphin Smile, Richard O'Barry told the inspiring story of his personal transformation from world-famous dolphin trainer (Flipper was his pupil) to dolphin liberator. Now, in To Free a Dolphin, he passionately recounts the dramatic story of his heart-breaking campaign to release captive dolphins back into the wild. With wit and insight he chronicles the extreme opposition he has faced from bureaucrats, major players in the captive-dolphin industry, rival wildlife groups, and well-meaning sentimentalists. He introduces readers to famous show animals he has helped, including Bogie and Bacall of Key Largo. And, most fascinating, he describes his struggles to deprogram and rehabilitate dolphins emotionally scarred from years of captivity--struggles that become battles for the animals' souls.
Publisher: Renaissance Books
ISBN: 1250099838
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this memorable first book, Behind the Dolphin Smile, Richard O'Barry told the inspiring story of his personal transformation from world-famous dolphin trainer (Flipper was his pupil) to dolphin liberator. Now, in To Free a Dolphin, he passionately recounts the dramatic story of his heart-breaking campaign to release captive dolphins back into the wild. With wit and insight he chronicles the extreme opposition he has faced from bureaucrats, major players in the captive-dolphin industry, rival wildlife groups, and well-meaning sentimentalists. He introduces readers to famous show animals he has helped, including Bogie and Bacall of Key Largo. And, most fascinating, he describes his struggles to deprogram and rehabilitate dolphins emotionally scarred from years of captivity--struggles that become battles for the animals' souls.
Dolphin Societies
Author: Karen Pryor
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520216563
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A survey of current dolphin research.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520216563
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A survey of current dolphin research.
The Dolphin Crossing
Author: Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571296248
Category : Teenage boys
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
John and Pat, teenagers in war-tense England, are frustrated at being able to do nothing to help with the war effort. Then comes the evacuation of Dunkirk and their chance.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571296248
Category : Teenage boys
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
John and Pat, teenagers in war-tense England, are frustrated at being able to do nothing to help with the war effort. Then comes the evacuation of Dunkirk and their chance.
The Strand Magazine
Author: Herbert Greenhough Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Strand Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Collected Reprints
Author: Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Methuselah's Zoo
Author: Steven N. Austad
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity. Opossums in the wild don’t make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most of them underground). Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some outliers living past 100 or even 110. Is there anything humans can learn from the exceptional longevity of some animals in the wild? In Methusaleh’s Zoo, Steven Austad tells the stories of some extraordinary animals, considering why, for example, animal species that fly live longer than earthbound species and why animals found in the ocean live longest of all. Austad—the leading authority on longevity in animals—argues that the best way we will learn from these long-lived animals is by studying them in the wild. Accordingly, he proceeds habitat by habitat, examining animals that spend most of their lives in the air, comparing insects, birds, and bats; animals that live on, and under, the ground—from mole rats to elephants; and animals that live in the sea, including quahogs, carp, and dolphins. Humans have dramatically increased their lifespan with only a limited increase in healthspan; we’re more and more prone to diseases as we grow older. By contrast, these species have successfully avoided both environmental hazards and the depredations of aging. Can we be more like them?
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity. Opossums in the wild don’t make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most of them underground). Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some outliers living past 100 or even 110. Is there anything humans can learn from the exceptional longevity of some animals in the wild? In Methusaleh’s Zoo, Steven Austad tells the stories of some extraordinary animals, considering why, for example, animal species that fly live longer than earthbound species and why animals found in the ocean live longest of all. Austad—the leading authority on longevity in animals—argues that the best way we will learn from these long-lived animals is by studying them in the wild. Accordingly, he proceeds habitat by habitat, examining animals that spend most of their lives in the air, comparing insects, birds, and bats; animals that live on, and under, the ground—from mole rats to elephants; and animals that live in the sea, including quahogs, carp, and dolphins. Humans have dramatically increased their lifespan with only a limited increase in healthspan; we’re more and more prone to diseases as we grow older. By contrast, these species have successfully avoided both environmental hazards and the depredations of aging. Can we be more like them?
Dolphins and Their Power to Heal
Author: Amanda Cochrane
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892814763
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892814763
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Dolphins and Their Power to Heal
Author: Amanda Cochrane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747511601
Category : Cetacea
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
How dolphins can improve our health, enhance our psychological well-being and help us to live in harmony with the environment.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747511601
Category : Cetacea
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
How dolphins can improve our health, enhance our psychological well-being and help us to live in harmony with the environment.