Author: Sreevalsan
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1645466418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Meera, a successful psychiatrist who doesn’t know the taste of failures Meets the only Mastermind behind suicide game Challenges him to the game of death Winning will give her peace and Losing means self-murder Or will there be a third possibility, which Meera has to encounter?
The Killer Elephant's journal
Author: Sreevalsan
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1645466418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Meera, a successful psychiatrist who doesn’t know the taste of failures Meets the only Mastermind behind suicide game Challenges him to the game of death Winning will give her peace and Losing means self-murder Or will there be a third possibility, which Meera has to encounter?
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1645466418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Meera, a successful psychiatrist who doesn’t know the taste of failures Meets the only Mastermind behind suicide game Challenges him to the game of death Winning will give her peace and Losing means self-murder Or will there be a third possibility, which Meera has to encounter?
To the Elephant Graveyard
Author: Tarquin Hall
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802158382
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
“Introduces us to the darker side of the Asian elephant. It is more of a thriller than a straightforward travel book . . . insightful and sensitive.” —Literary Review On India’s northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam’s paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop the elephant, call in one of India’s last licensed elephant hunters and issue a warrant for the rogue’s destruction. Reading about the ensuing hunt in a Delhi newspaper, journalist Tarquin Hall flies to Assam to investigate. To the Elephant Graveyard is the compelling account of the search for a killer elephant in the northeast corner of India, and a vivid portrait of the Khasi tribe, who live intimately with the elephants. Though it seems a world of peaceful coexistence between man and beast, Hall begins to see that the elephants are suffering, having lost their natural habitat to the destruction of the forests and modernization. Hungry, confused, and with little forest left to hide in, herds of elephants are slowly adapting to domestication, but many are resolute and furious. Often spellbinding with excitement, like “a page-turning detective tale” (Publishers Weekly), To the Elephant Graveyard is also intimate and moving, as Hall magnificently takes us on a journey to a place whose ancient ways are fast disappearing with the ever-shrinking forest. “Hall is to be congratulated on writing a book that promises humor and adventure, and delivers both.” —The Spectator “Travel writing that wonderfully hits on all cylinders.” —Booklist “A wonderful book that should become a classic.” —Daily Mail
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802158382
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
“Introduces us to the darker side of the Asian elephant. It is more of a thriller than a straightforward travel book . . . insightful and sensitive.” —Literary Review On India’s northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam’s paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop the elephant, call in one of India’s last licensed elephant hunters and issue a warrant for the rogue’s destruction. Reading about the ensuing hunt in a Delhi newspaper, journalist Tarquin Hall flies to Assam to investigate. To the Elephant Graveyard is the compelling account of the search for a killer elephant in the northeast corner of India, and a vivid portrait of the Khasi tribe, who live intimately with the elephants. Though it seems a world of peaceful coexistence between man and beast, Hall begins to see that the elephants are suffering, having lost their natural habitat to the destruction of the forests and modernization. Hungry, confused, and with little forest left to hide in, herds of elephants are slowly adapting to domestication, but many are resolute and furious. Often spellbinding with excitement, like “a page-turning detective tale” (Publishers Weekly), To the Elephant Graveyard is also intimate and moving, as Hall magnificently takes us on a journey to a place whose ancient ways are fast disappearing with the ever-shrinking forest. “Hall is to be congratulated on writing a book that promises humor and adventure, and delivers both.” —The Spectator “Travel writing that wonderfully hits on all cylinders.” —Booklist “A wonderful book that should become a classic.” —Daily Mail
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher: Detroit : Negro History Press
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher: Detroit : Negro History Press
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, IN CENTRAL AFRICA. FROM EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE TO HIS DEATH. CONTINUED BY NARRATIVE OF HIS LAST MOMENTS AND SUFFERINGS, OBTAINED FROM HIS FAITHFUL SERVANTS CHUMA AND SUSI
Author: HORACE WALLER, F.R.G.S.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Killer Whale Journals
Author: Hanne Strager
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421446227
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"This book delves into our dual nature with orcas, as they are both feared and persecuted, as well as admired and worshiped"--
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421446227
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"This book delves into our dual nature with orcas, as they are both feared and persecuted, as well as admired and worshiped"--
Beyond Words
Author: Carl Safina
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805098887
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Hailed conservationist Carl Safina examines animal personhood as told through the inspired narrative portraits of elephants, wolves, and dolphins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805098887
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Hailed conservationist Carl Safina examines animal personhood as told through the inspired narrative portraits of elephants, wolves, and dolphins
The Amboseli Elephants
Author: Cynthia J. Moss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226542238
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe and Hannibal used them in warfare. This book is the summation of what's been learned from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) - the longest continuously running elephant research project in the world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226542238
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe and Hannibal used them in warfare. This book is the summation of what's been learned from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) - the longest continuously running elephant research project in the world.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-five to His Death
Author: Horace Waller
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385387744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385387744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Author: Bombay Natural History Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Elephant Seals
Author: Burney J. Le Beouf
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520328159
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close to extinction and made such a complete recovery. The physiological extremes that elephant seals can tolerate are also remarkable: females fast for a month while lactating, and the largest breeding males fast for over one hundred days during the breeding seasons, at which times both sexes lose forty percent of their body weight. Elephant seals dive constantly during their long foraging migrations, spending more time under water than most whales and diving deeper and longer than any other marine mammal. This first book-length discussion of elephant seals brings together worldwide expertise from scientists who describe and debate recent research, including the history and status of various populations, their life-history tactics, and other findings obtained with the help of modern microcomputer diving instruments attached to free-ranging seals. Essential for all marine mammalogists for its information and its methodological innovations, Elephant Seals will also illuminate current debates about species extinctions and possible means of preventing them. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520328159
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close to extinction and made such a complete recovery. The physiological extremes that elephant seals can tolerate are also remarkable: females fast for a month while lactating, and the largest breeding males fast for over one hundred days during the breeding seasons, at which times both sexes lose forty percent of their body weight. Elephant seals dive constantly during their long foraging migrations, spending more time under water than most whales and diving deeper and longer than any other marine mammal. This first book-length discussion of elephant seals brings together worldwide expertise from scientists who describe and debate recent research, including the history and status of various populations, their life-history tactics, and other findings obtained with the help of modern microcomputer diving instruments attached to free-ranging seals. Essential for all marine mammalogists for its information and its methodological innovations, Elephant Seals will also illuminate current debates about species extinctions and possible means of preventing them. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.