As the Falcon Flies

As the Falcon Flies PDF Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 153448325X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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During their Alaskan vacation, Frank and Joe Hardy help falconer Kate when her beloved peregrine goes missing.

As the Falcon Flies

As the Falcon Flies PDF Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 153448325X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
During their Alaskan vacation, Frank and Joe Hardy help falconer Kate when her beloved peregrine goes missing.

A Falcon Flies

A Falcon Flies PDF Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1785765701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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BOOK 1 IN THE BALLANTYNE SERIES BY INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror A DISHONOURABLE MAN. AN HONOURABLE MISSION. Dr Robyn Ballantyne has always worked hard for what she wants. Following in the footsteps of their father she and her brother, the celebrated soldier Zouga Ballantyne, depart England on an expedition to Africa, the land of their birth. Robyn is determined to bring an end to slave trading, while Zouga is certain that Africa will be the land that makes him, and determines to make his fortune there, whatever the cost. Manning the expedition is the notorious American merchant, Mungo St John. Robyn is deeply attracted to St John but is horrified to discover that he is a slave-trader, and that she is unwittingly travelling on a slave ship. Also vying for her love is the fanatical anti-slavery naval captain, Clinton Codrington. Kind and respectable, Codrington is deeply in love with Robyn, but despite herself she cannot return his feelings. As Robyn finds herself torn between the two men, she is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever, and which will shape the future for them all. The first book in the first sequence of the epic Ballantyne series Book 2 in the Ballantyne series, Men of Men, is available now.

Where the Great Hawk Flies

Where the Great Hawk Flies PDF Author: Liza Ketchum
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618400850
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Years after a violent New England raid by the Redcoats and their Revolutionary War Indian allies, two families, one that suffered during that raid and one with an Indian mother and Patriot father, become neighbors and must deal with past trauma and prejudices before they can help each other in the present. Based on the author's family history. Includes historical notes and notes on the Pequot Indians.

The Summer of the Falcon

The Summer of the Falcon PDF Author: GEORGE J
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780064400954
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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A sensitive young girl grows into womanhood as she trains a falcon during three summers in the country. ‘The interrelatedness of nature is a thread that binds the book together and gives it depth. This is one of the best portraits of female adolescence in our literature.’ —SLJ.

The Falcon Thief

The Falcon Thief PDF Author: Joshua Hammer
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 150119190X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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A “well-written, engaging detective story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a “vivid tale of obsession and international derring-do” (Publishers Weekly), following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent on protecting the world’s birds of prey. “Masterfully constructed” (The New York Times) and “entertaining and illuminating” (The Washington Post), The Falcon Thief will whisk you away from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.

Peregrine

Peregrine PDF Author: William Bayer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0765311623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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A mystery novel about a woman murdered by a trained peregrine falcon.

Falcon Wild

Falcon Wild PDF Author: Terry Lynn Johnson
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 163289601X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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An action-packed, contemporary novel about surviving in the wilderness. Thirteen-year-old Karma is desperate to become a certified falconer. At her dad's bird education center, she helps give demonstrations to guests and can fly the birds. But when her favorite rescued falcon, Stark, hurts Karma, her parents insist that they return the bird to its previous owner--in Canada. On the way to bring Stark back, a car accident in the middle of nowhere leaves Karma's dad trapped, and it's up to Karma to find a way to rescue him and her younger brother. When Karma loses her way trying to get help, she crosses paths with Cooper, a troubled teenaged boy. Lost for three days, the two figure out how to survive, and Karma teaches Stark to hunt like an actual bird of prey. Karma may be closer than she thinks to becoming a real falconer and having a real friend.

The Magnificent Book of Birds

The Magnificent Book of Birds PDF Author: Weldon Owen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681887681
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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"This ... book will take you deep into the forest, far out to sea, and high into the air to discover the amazing birds that live there. From the majestic condor to the tiny bee hummingbird, this book captures a variety of birds .... See the dazzling quetzel, the lightning-fast peregrine falcon, the gigantic ostrich, and the incredible emperor penguin"--Back cover.

The Peregrine

The Peregrine PDF Author: J. A. Baker
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590171330
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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This extraordinary, poetic portrait of two peregrine falcons is one of the most beloved works of nature writing ever published. From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk. It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.

Men of Men

Men of Men PDF Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1785765825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605

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BOOK 2 IN THE BALLANTYNE SERIES, BY INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror A RUTHLESS MAN. AN UNFORGIVING DESTINY. Zouga Ballantyne has in his blood a fanatical need to find diamonds, and it is in the diamond mines of Kimberley that he finally realises his fate. But the price of success in one of the most punishing places in the world is high, and Zouga loses his beloved wife to one of the many sicknesses that haunt the diamond mine camp. Zouga and his sons are left to find their fortune elsewhere, and end up a part of the flourishing British Empire, developing their own form of civilisation in the face of tribal opposition. But Zouga's success has come at a price. The local Matabele tribe, who have tried to live alongside the colonists, are slowly losing everything. In the face of exploitation, violence and greed, who will triumph in the land of ruthless men? The second book in the epic Ballantyne Series. Book 3 in the Ballantyne series, The Angels Weep, is available now.