Author: David A. Ufer
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 193435905X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
In this story, a giraffe, a monkey, and a hippopatamus all overcome their fears and face a danger together.
The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights
Author: David A. Ufer
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 193435905X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
In this story, a giraffe, a monkey, and a hippopatamus all overcome their fears and face a danger together.
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 193435905X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
In this story, a giraffe, a monkey, and a hippopatamus all overcome their fears and face a danger together.
In the Footsteps of Zarafa, First Giraffe in France
Author: Olivier Lebleu
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538142252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This engaging account traces the remarkable history of France's first giraffe, a diplomatic gift from Egyptian Pasha Muhammed-Ali to King Charles X in 1826. “Zarafa,” taken by boat from Egypt to Marseilles and walked all the way to Paris, was accompanied by her Arab handlers and a famous French naturalist. She drew vast crowds along her route, sparking a giraffomania that was widely documented in art and literature. Her initial journey and then long and celebrated residence in Paris encapsulates nineteenth-century French socio-political history and highlights the emerging evolutionary theories of the time. Over fifty illustrations from the period illuminate this rare encounter with a unique animal that is now endangered and deserving of our greater attention and understanding.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538142252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This engaging account traces the remarkable history of France's first giraffe, a diplomatic gift from Egyptian Pasha Muhammed-Ali to King Charles X in 1826. “Zarafa,” taken by boat from Egypt to Marseilles and walked all the way to Paris, was accompanied by her Arab handlers and a famous French naturalist. She drew vast crowds along her route, sparking a giraffomania that was widely documented in art and literature. Her initial journey and then long and celebrated residence in Paris encapsulates nineteenth-century French socio-political history and highlights the emerging evolutionary theories of the time. Over fifty illustrations from the period illuminate this rare encounter with a unique animal that is now endangered and deserving of our greater attention and understanding.
A Giraffe Goes to Paris
Author: Mary Tavener Holmes
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761455950
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A giraffe causes a sensation when he walks 500 miles to Paris
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761455950
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A giraffe causes a sensation when he walks 500 miles to Paris
Giraffe
Author: Meish Goldish
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597163740
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Find out how the world's tallest mammal uses its height to find food, stay safe, and even help other animals escape from enemies.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597163740
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Find out how the world's tallest mammal uses its height to find food, stay safe, and even help other animals escape from enemies.
The Lonely Giraffe
Author: Peter Blight
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747571445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When a giraffe feels left out because the other animals can barely hear him or are afraid of him, an unexpected flood and an innovative idea by the giraffe changes the other animals' perspective.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747571445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When a giraffe feels left out because the other animals can barely hear him or are afraid of him, an unexpected flood and an innovative idea by the giraffe changes the other animals' perspective.
Giraffe Reflections
Author: Dale Peterson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520266854
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Presents a cultural, historical, and pictorial history of giraffes, describing their biology and behavior and demonstrating their grace and elegance through over one hundred photographs.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520266854
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Presents a cultural, historical, and pictorial history of giraffes, describing their biology and behavior and demonstrating their grace and elegance through over one hundred photographs.
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963468
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
"The Pelican spread his huge white wings and flew down on to the road beside me. 'Hop in,' he said, opening his enormous beak . . ." MEET BILLY. A kid with a dream. He wants to turn an old wooden house into an incredible sweetshop full of treats! AND MEET THE LADDERLESS WINDOW-CLEANING COMPANY: Monkey, Pelican (Pelly) and Giraffe (who needs ladders when you've got a giraffe?!). They have just landed a big break cleaning all six hundred and seventy-seven windows of the mansion owned by the richest man in all of England! All they need now is a little help from Billy. Can these unlikely new friends make Billy's wildest dreams come true and take him on an adventure he'll never forget . . .?
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963468
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
"The Pelican spread his huge white wings and flew down on to the road beside me. 'Hop in,' he said, opening his enormous beak . . ." MEET BILLY. A kid with a dream. He wants to turn an old wooden house into an incredible sweetshop full of treats! AND MEET THE LADDERLESS WINDOW-CLEANING COMPANY: Monkey, Pelican (Pelly) and Giraffe (who needs ladders when you've got a giraffe?!). They have just landed a big break cleaning all six hundred and seventy-seven windows of the mansion owned by the richest man in all of England! All they need now is a little help from Billy. Can these unlikely new friends make Billy's wildest dreams come true and take him on an adventure he'll never forget . . .?
Pursuing Giraffe
Author: Anne Innis Dagg
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205396
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her näiveté about the complex social and political issues in Africa. Once in the field, she recorded the complexities of giraffe social relationships but also learned about human relationships in the context of apartheid in South Africa and colonialism in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya. Hospitality and friendship were readily extended to her as a white woman, but she was shocked by the racism of the colonial whites in Africa. Reflecting the twenty-three-year-old author’s response to an “exotic” world far removed from the Toronto where she grew up, the book records her visits to Zanzibar and Victoria Falls and her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pursuing Giraffe is a fascinating account that has much to say about the status of women in the mid-twentieth century. The book’s foreword by South African novelist Mark Behr (author of The Smell of Apples and Embrace) provides further context for and insights into Dagg’s narrative.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205396
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her näiveté about the complex social and political issues in Africa. Once in the field, she recorded the complexities of giraffe social relationships but also learned about human relationships in the context of apartheid in South Africa and colonialism in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya. Hospitality and friendship were readily extended to her as a white woman, but she was shocked by the racism of the colonial whites in Africa. Reflecting the twenty-three-year-old author’s response to an “exotic” world far removed from the Toronto where she grew up, the book records her visits to Zanzibar and Victoria Falls and her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pursuing Giraffe is a fascinating account that has much to say about the status of women in the mid-twentieth century. The book’s foreword by South African novelist Mark Behr (author of The Smell of Apples and Embrace) provides further context for and insights into Dagg’s narrative.
The Giraffe
Author: Bryan Shorrocks
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118587448
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview of one of nature's most engaging mammals Covers fossil history, taxonomy, genetics, physiology, biomechanics, behavior, ecology, and conservation Includes genetic analysis of five of the six subspecies of modern giraffes Includes giraffe network studies from Laikipia Kenya, Etosha National Park, Namibia andSamburu National Reserve, Kenya
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118587448
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview of one of nature's most engaging mammals Covers fossil history, taxonomy, genetics, physiology, biomechanics, behavior, ecology, and conservation Includes genetic analysis of five of the six subspecies of modern giraffes Includes giraffe network studies from Laikipia Kenya, Etosha National Park, Namibia andSamburu National Reserve, Kenya
The Giraffe's Neck
Author: Judith Schalansky
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408843781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 Adaption is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. A strict devotee of Darwin's evolution principle, Lohmark views education as survival of the fittest: classifying her pupils as biological specimens and scorning her colleagues for indulging in 'favourites'. However, as people move West in search of work and opportunities, the school's future is in jeopardy and the Lohmark is forced to face her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408843781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 Adaption is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. A strict devotee of Darwin's evolution principle, Lohmark views education as survival of the fittest: classifying her pupils as biological specimens and scorning her colleagues for indulging in 'favourites'. However, as people move West in search of work and opportunities, the school's future is in jeopardy and the Lohmark is forced to face her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive.