Author: Hans de Beer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0735844925
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
After Lars the Little Polar Bear rescues a scared hare from a hole in the ice, the two new friends share an adventurous day, during which each discovers just how much courage he has.
Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare
Author: Hans de Beer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0735844925
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
After Lars the Little Polar Bear rescues a scared hare from a hole in the ice, the two new friends share an adventurous day, during which each discovers just how much courage he has.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0735844925
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
After Lars the Little Polar Bear rescues a scared hare from a hole in the ice, the two new friends share an adventurous day, during which each discovers just how much courage he has.
Polar Bear Night
Author: Lauren Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545485586
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After wandering out at night to watch a magical star shower, a polar bear cub returns home to snuggle with her mother in their warm den.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545485586
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After wandering out at night to watch a magical star shower, a polar bear cub returns home to snuggle with her mother in their warm den.
Audun and the Polar Bear
Author: William I. Miller
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047443446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Audun’s Story is the tale of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland for no other reason than to give it to the Danish king, half a world away. It can justly be listed among the finest pieces of short fiction in world literature. Terse in the best saga style, it spins a story of complex competitive social action, revealing the cool wit and finely-calibrated reticence of its three main characters: Audun, Harald Hardradi, and King Svein. The tale should have much to engage legal and cultural historians, anthropologists, economists, philosophers, and students of literature. The story’s treatment of gift-exchange is worthy of the fine anthropological and historical writing on gift-exchange; its treatment of face-to-face interaction a match for Erving Goffman.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047443446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Audun’s Story is the tale of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland for no other reason than to give it to the Danish king, half a world away. It can justly be listed among the finest pieces of short fiction in world literature. Terse in the best saga style, it spins a story of complex competitive social action, revealing the cool wit and finely-calibrated reticence of its three main characters: Audun, Harald Hardradi, and King Svein. The tale should have much to engage legal and cultural historians, anthropologists, economists, philosophers, and students of literature. The story’s treatment of gift-exchange is worthy of the fine anthropological and historical writing on gift-exchange; its treatment of face-to-face interaction a match for Erving Goffman.
Above the Timberline
Author: Gregory Manchess
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481459252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From renowned artist Gregory Manchess comes a lavishly painted novel about the son of a famed polar explorer searching for his stranded father, and a lost city buried under snow in an alternate future. When it started to snow, it didn’t stop for 1,500 years. The Pole Shift that ancient climatologists talked about finally came, the topography was ripped apart and the weather of the world was changed—forever. Now the Earth is covered in snow, and to unknown depths in some places. In this world, Wes Singleton leaves the academy in search of his father, the famed explorer Galen Singleton, who was searching for a lost city until Galen’s expedition was cut short after being sabotaged. But Wes believes his father is still alive somewhere above the timberline. Fully illustrated with over 120 pieces of full-page artwork throughout, Above the Timberline is a stunning and cinematic combination of art and novel.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481459252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From renowned artist Gregory Manchess comes a lavishly painted novel about the son of a famed polar explorer searching for his stranded father, and a lost city buried under snow in an alternate future. When it started to snow, it didn’t stop for 1,500 years. The Pole Shift that ancient climatologists talked about finally came, the topography was ripped apart and the weather of the world was changed—forever. Now the Earth is covered in snow, and to unknown depths in some places. In this world, Wes Singleton leaves the academy in search of his father, the famed explorer Galen Singleton, who was searching for a lost city until Galen’s expedition was cut short after being sabotaged. But Wes believes his father is still alive somewhere above the timberline. Fully illustrated with over 120 pieces of full-page artwork throughout, Above the Timberline is a stunning and cinematic combination of art and novel.
Fearless
Author: Joe Glickman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762783060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Like the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits—including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle alone and unsupported around Australia—a year-long adventure that virtually every expert guaranteed would get her killed. She planned not only to survive the 9,420-mile trip through huge, shark-infested seas, but to do it faster than the only other paddler who did it. As journalist and expert kayaker Joe Glickman details the voyage of this Teutonic force of nature, he captures interminable days on the water and nights camped out on deserted islands; hair-raising encounters with crocs and great white sharks; and the daring 300-mile open-ocean crossing that shaved three weeks off her trip. For 332 days Glickman followed Freya’s journey on her blog—along with a far-flung audience of awestruck, even lovesick, groupies—as she took on one terrifying ordeal after the next. In the end, he says, “her vanity and pigheadedness paled next to her nearly superhuman ability to master fear and persevere.”
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762783060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Like the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits—including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle alone and unsupported around Australia—a year-long adventure that virtually every expert guaranteed would get her killed. She planned not only to survive the 9,420-mile trip through huge, shark-infested seas, but to do it faster than the only other paddler who did it. As journalist and expert kayaker Joe Glickman details the voyage of this Teutonic force of nature, he captures interminable days on the water and nights camped out on deserted islands; hair-raising encounters with crocs and great white sharks; and the daring 300-mile open-ocean crossing that shaved three weeks off her trip. For 332 days Glickman followed Freya’s journey on her blog—along with a far-flung audience of awestruck, even lovesick, groupies—as she took on one terrifying ordeal after the next. In the end, he says, “her vanity and pigheadedness paled next to her nearly superhuman ability to master fear and persevere.”
Free and Wild
Author: Gary Haymes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557694108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A fast-paced adventure novel created for anyone who has affection for horses. There are few successful books or meaningful horsemanship stories. “Black Beauty†is an exception, written in 1877 by Anna Sewell, is a great and lasting masterpiece.“Free and Wild†is about a realistic horse’s life, how he is and why.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557694108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A fast-paced adventure novel created for anyone who has affection for horses. There are few successful books or meaningful horsemanship stories. “Black Beauty†is an exception, written in 1877 by Anna Sewell, is a great and lasting masterpiece.“Free and Wild†is about a realistic horse’s life, how he is and why.
Tape
Author: Steven Camden
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007511213
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
TAPE is an outstanding debut. Told with crackling prose, shimmering with humour and deeply moving, it will haunt anyone who reads it...
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007511213
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
TAPE is an outstanding debut. Told with crackling prose, shimmering with humour and deeply moving, it will haunt anyone who reads it...
Sir John Franklin
Author: Anthony Dalton
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1927051819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were never found, and the fate of Franklin's expedition passed into legend as one of the North's great and enduring mysteries. Anthony Dalton explores the eventful and fascinating life of this complex and intelligent man, beginning with his early sea voyages and arduous overland explorations in the Arctic. After years in Malta and Tasmania, Franklin realized his dream of returning to the Far North; it would be his last expedition. Drawing from evidence found by 19th-century Arctic explorers following in Franklin's footsteps and investigations by 20th-century historians and archaeologists, Dalton retraces the route of the lost ships and recounts the sad tale of Franklin, his officers and men in their final agonizing months.
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1927051819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were never found, and the fate of Franklin's expedition passed into legend as one of the North's great and enduring mysteries. Anthony Dalton explores the eventful and fascinating life of this complex and intelligent man, beginning with his early sea voyages and arduous overland explorations in the Arctic. After years in Malta and Tasmania, Franklin realized his dream of returning to the Far North; it would be his last expedition. Drawing from evidence found by 19th-century Arctic explorers following in Franklin's footsteps and investigations by 20th-century historians and archaeologists, Dalton retraces the route of the lost ships and recounts the sad tale of Franklin, his officers and men in their final agonizing months.
Achieving the Impossible
Author: Charles M. Sell
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 9780880700344
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 9780880700344
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Little Doctor and the Fearless Beast
Author: Sophie Gilmore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771473446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A doctor of crocodiles meets her most challenging patient yet in this awe-inspiring story about how even little kids can be fearless, and even big, mean creatures sometimes need help. Full color.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771473446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A doctor of crocodiles meets her most challenging patient yet in this awe-inspiring story about how even little kids can be fearless, and even big, mean creatures sometimes need help. Full color.