Author: Johanna Ries
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
ISBN: 9780735844476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Feather ruffling fun! In the wide savanna there are three birds named Ade, Emem, and Nuru, that live on the back of an elephant. They are best friends. But one day the wind blows a bright speckled feather into their midst, and in no time their peacefulness is over. A thought-provoking story about friendship by debut author-illustrator Johanna Ries.
The Speckled Feather
Author: Johanna Ries
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
ISBN: 9780735844476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Feather ruffling fun! In the wide savanna there are three birds named Ade, Emem, and Nuru, that live on the back of an elephant. They are best friends. But one day the wind blows a bright speckled feather into their midst, and in no time their peacefulness is over. A thought-provoking story about friendship by debut author-illustrator Johanna Ries.
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
ISBN: 9780735844476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Feather ruffling fun! In the wide savanna there are three birds named Ade, Emem, and Nuru, that live on the back of an elephant. They are best friends. But one day the wind blows a bright speckled feather into their midst, and in no time their peacefulness is over. A thought-provoking story about friendship by debut author-illustrator Johanna Ries.
The Feather Thief
Author: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101981628
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101981628
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
The American Angler's Guide
Author: John J. Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368721216
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368721216
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
An Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports
Author: Delabere Pritchett Blaine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
Chambers's Information for the People
Author: William Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
The American Angler's Guide
Author: John Jay Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Letters on Sporting
Author: Robert Lascelles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Series of familiar letters on sporting
Author: Robert Lascelles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A Series of Letters on Angling, Shooting, & Coursing
Author: Robert Lascelles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coursing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coursing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description