Author: Bruce Bradley
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781598001907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
He thought he'd found the GRANDADDY of all mountain lions. When Tom Allison discovered that something had pulled down one of his 1,000-pound longhorn steers and dragged it a quarter-mile across a rocky hillside, he thought it must have been a bear--probably a large grizzly. When he finally got a look at the track he realized he was wrong. The steer had been taken by a cat--a 400-pound cat. But Tom has even bigger problems coming his way....men who would steal everything he owns, and a seven-foot halfbreed Indian who wants to take his son--and will kill anyone who gets in his way!
The Last Jaguar
Author: Bruce Bradley
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781598001907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
He thought he'd found the GRANDADDY of all mountain lions. When Tom Allison discovered that something had pulled down one of his 1,000-pound longhorn steers and dragged it a quarter-mile across a rocky hillside, he thought it must have been a bear--probably a large grizzly. When he finally got a look at the track he realized he was wrong. The steer had been taken by a cat--a 400-pound cat. But Tom has even bigger problems coming his way....men who would steal everything he owns, and a seven-foot halfbreed Indian who wants to take his son--and will kill anyone who gets in his way!
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781598001907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
He thought he'd found the GRANDADDY of all mountain lions. When Tom Allison discovered that something had pulled down one of his 1,000-pound longhorn steers and dragged it a quarter-mile across a rocky hillside, he thought it must have been a bear--probably a large grizzly. When he finally got a look at the track he realized he was wrong. The steer had been taken by a cat--a 400-pound cat. But Tom has even bigger problems coming his way....men who would steal everything he owns, and a seven-foot halfbreed Indian who wants to take his son--and will kill anyone who gets in his way!
A Boy and a Jaguar
Author: Alan Rabinowitz
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544358872
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
2015 Schneider Family Book Award Winner * "A candid and deeply resonant account of a hard-fought battle against societal stigma, and an embrace of one's true talent and calling." —Publisher's Weekly, starred review Speaking for the animals he loves gives one boy’s life hope, purpose, and truth in this gorgeous picture book autobiography. Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they all alone in empty cages? Are they being punished? More than anything, he wants to be their champion—their voice—but he stutters uncontrollably. Except when he talks to animals…then he is fluent. Follow the life of the man Time Magazine calls, "the Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation" as he searches for his voice and fulfills a promise to speak for animals, and people, who cannot speak for themselves. This real-life story with tender illustrations by Catia Chien explores truths not defined by the spoken word. Publishers Weekly Best Book Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2015 Winner of the 2015 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award 2015 Green Earth Book Honor book
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544358872
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
2015 Schneider Family Book Award Winner * "A candid and deeply resonant account of a hard-fought battle against societal stigma, and an embrace of one's true talent and calling." —Publisher's Weekly, starred review Speaking for the animals he loves gives one boy’s life hope, purpose, and truth in this gorgeous picture book autobiography. Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they all alone in empty cages? Are they being punished? More than anything, he wants to be their champion—their voice—but he stutters uncontrollably. Except when he talks to animals…then he is fluent. Follow the life of the man Time Magazine calls, "the Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation" as he searches for his voice and fulfills a promise to speak for animals, and people, who cannot speak for themselves. This real-life story with tender illustrations by Catia Chien explores truths not defined by the spoken word. Publishers Weekly Best Book Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2015 Winner of the 2015 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award 2015 Green Earth Book Honor book
Borderland Jaguars
Author: David Earl Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780874806960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A natural history of the jaguar that discusses its distribution, habitats, hunting and breeding characteristics, folklor, and the status and management of Arizona-Mexico borderland jaguars.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780874806960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A natural history of the jaguar that discusses its distribution, habitats, hunting and breeding characteristics, folklor, and the status and management of Arizona-Mexico borderland jaguars.
Jaguar
Author: Alan Rabinowitz
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781559638029
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1983, zoologist Alan Rabinowitz ventured into the rain forest of Belize, determined to study the little-known jaguar in its natural habitat and to establish the world's first jaguar preserve. Within two years, he had succeeded. In Jaguar he provides the only first-hand account of a scientist's experience with jaguars in the wild. Originally published in 1986, this edition includes a new preface and epilogue by the author that bring the story up to date with recent events in the region and around the world.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781559638029
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1983, zoologist Alan Rabinowitz ventured into the rain forest of Belize, determined to study the little-known jaguar in its natural habitat and to establish the world's first jaguar preserve. Within two years, he had succeeded. In Jaguar he provides the only first-hand account of a scientist's experience with jaguars in the wild. Originally published in 1986, this edition includes a new preface and epilogue by the author that bring the story up to date with recent events in the region and around the world.
A Jaguar Grows Up
Author: Amanda Doering Tourville
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781404831599
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Examines a jaguar from birth to adulthood.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781404831599
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Examines a jaguar from birth to adulthood.
An Indomitable Beast
Author: Alan Rabinowitz
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781597269971
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong, the jaguar has shaped indigenous cultures and the beliefs of early civilizations on two continents. In An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar, big-cat expert Alan Rabinowitz shares his own personal journey to conserve a species that, despite its past resilience, is now on a slide toward extinction if something is not done to preserve the pathways it prowls through an ever-changing, ever-shifting landscape dominated by humans. Rabinowitz reveals how he learned from newly available genetic data that the jaguar was a single species connected genetically throughout its entire range from Mexico to Argentina, making it unique among all other large carnivores in the world. In a mix of personal discovery and scientific inquiry, he sweeps his readers deep into the realm of the jaguar, offering fascinating accounts from the field. Enhanced with maps, tables, and color plates, An Indomitable Beast brings important new research to life for scientists, anthropologists, and animal lovers alike. This book is not only about jaguars, but also about tenacity and survival. From the jaguar we can learn better strategies for saving other species and also how to save ourselves when faced with immediate and long-term catastrophic changes to our environment.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781597269971
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong, the jaguar has shaped indigenous cultures and the beliefs of early civilizations on two continents. In An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar, big-cat expert Alan Rabinowitz shares his own personal journey to conserve a species that, despite its past resilience, is now on a slide toward extinction if something is not done to preserve the pathways it prowls through an ever-changing, ever-shifting landscape dominated by humans. Rabinowitz reveals how he learned from newly available genetic data that the jaguar was a single species connected genetically throughout its entire range from Mexico to Argentina, making it unique among all other large carnivores in the world. In a mix of personal discovery and scientific inquiry, he sweeps his readers deep into the realm of the jaguar, offering fascinating accounts from the field. Enhanced with maps, tables, and color plates, An Indomitable Beast brings important new research to life for scientists, anthropologists, and animal lovers alike. This book is not only about jaguars, but also about tenacity and survival. From the jaguar we can learn better strategies for saving other species and also how to save ourselves when faced with immediate and long-term catastrophic changes to our environment.
Jaguar
Author: Anita Ganeri
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1432941178
Category : Jaguar
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Offering fascinating insight into life in the rain forest, this book follows a jaguar through its day as it sleeps, eats, and moves.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1432941178
Category : Jaguar
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Offering fascinating insight into life in the rain forest, this book follows a jaguar through its day as it sleeps, eats, and moves.
Under the Jaguar Sun
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156927949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
One of Italy's greatest and most popular writers offers three witty, fantastical stories, each dominated by one of three senses--taste, hearing, or smell.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156927949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
One of Italy's greatest and most popular writers offers three witty, fantastical stories, each dominated by one of three senses--taste, hearing, or smell.
Cloak and Jaguar
Author: Janay Brun
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720812296
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The wild jaguar is likely the most rare and revered mammal in the United States. Yet, Janay Brun was lucky enough to see one during an evening walk in the Arizona desert. Meeting this jaguar-which came to be known to the world as Macho B-launched her remarkable ten-year odyssey of following the big cat's trail. Their captivating and disturbing story begins in remote lands along the border with Mexico and ends unexpectedly in the halls of a Tucson federal courthouse.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720812296
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The wild jaguar is likely the most rare and revered mammal in the United States. Yet, Janay Brun was lucky enough to see one during an evening walk in the Arizona desert. Meeting this jaguar-which came to be known to the world as Macho B-launched her remarkable ten-year odyssey of following the big cat's trail. Their captivating and disturbing story begins in remote lands along the border with Mexico and ends unexpectedly in the halls of a Tucson federal courthouse.
Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon
Author: Robin M. Wright
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803246811
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva’s life together with the Baniwas’ society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls “a nexus of religious power and knowledge” in which healers, sorcerers, priestly chanters, and dance-leaders exercise complementary functions that link living specialists with the deities and great spirits of the cosmos. By exploring in depth the apprenticeship of the shaman, Wright shows how jaguar shamans acquire the knowledge and power of the deities in several stages of instruction and practice. This volume is the first mapping of the sacred geography (“mythscape”) of the Northern Arawak–speaking people of the northwest Amazon, demonstrating direct connections between petroglyphs and other inscriptions and Baniwa sacred narratives as a whole. In eloquent and inviting analytic prose, Wright links biographic and ethnographic elements in elevating anthropological writing to a new standard of theoretically aware storytelling and analytic power.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803246811
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva’s life together with the Baniwas’ society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls “a nexus of religious power and knowledge” in which healers, sorcerers, priestly chanters, and dance-leaders exercise complementary functions that link living specialists with the deities and great spirits of the cosmos. By exploring in depth the apprenticeship of the shaman, Wright shows how jaguar shamans acquire the knowledge and power of the deities in several stages of instruction and practice. This volume is the first mapping of the sacred geography (“mythscape”) of the Northern Arawak–speaking people of the northwest Amazon, demonstrating direct connections between petroglyphs and other inscriptions and Baniwa sacred narratives as a whole. In eloquent and inviting analytic prose, Wright links biographic and ethnographic elements in elevating anthropological writing to a new standard of theoretically aware storytelling and analytic power.