Author | : Richard Owen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783742840639 |
Author | : Richard Owen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783742840639 |
Author | : Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
This volume by Strickland, an English ornithologist, and Mitchell, a physician, reconstructs the habits of the extinct dodo and related birds.. Since physical remains were so few, they also relied on contemporary paintings by artists such as Roelandt Savery, many of which are reproduced in this book.
Author | : David Quammen |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2012-03-31 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1448137403 |
Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.
Author | : Alice McKinley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1471181235 |
A brilliantly funny story about dodos, a dinosaur, and being VERY careful what you wish for, from the creator of Nine Lives Newton. Jack doesn’t just like dodos, he LOVES them. So when his dearest wish for a pet dodo comes true, surely Jack will be the happiest he’s ever been, EVER. Unless, of course, Jack wishes for more and more dodos and his new pets cause complete chaos, and no one believes that the dodos did it because dodos don’t exist and everyone blames Jack for everything. Maybe it's time for Jack to think about wishing for something completely different . . .
Author | : Felipe Nunes |
Publisher | : Boom! Studios |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2018-06-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1613989830 |
When Laila’s parents split up, Laila doesn’t understand why her life has changed, and why her dad never comes by anymore. Lonely and confused, Laila ends up befriending a strange bird that lives in the park by her house. Her friendship with this bird, a dodo named Ralph, takes Laila on a journey she never expected and shows her things about her own world she had never noticed before.
Author | : Clara Pinto-Correia |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2006-04-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0387216839 |
Using the history of the concept of extinction with the dodo as a case study, Pinto-Correia carefully weaves together story fragments to give a cohesive eye-opening view of 17th century exploration and the grave ramifications it had for the survival and extinction of many species. More importantly, she shows us the intellectual underpinnings of the old view that it was acceptable for some animals to die out. Within this narrative, we can see what the modern view of the dodo tells us about the history of our changing understanding and valuation of nature and our place in it. Strong writing, powered by lively historical anecdotes and sober insights into human behavior, makes this beautifully illustrated book a page-turner to the end.
Author | : Wayne Grady |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385677685 |
"Grady's novel reads with the velvety tempo of the jazz music of its day. . . . Grady fearlessly explores heated race relations and the masks we all assume." —Chatelaine With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled Vivian Clift, a local girl who has never stepped off the Rock and longs to see the world. They marry against Vivian's family's wishes—there's something about Jack that they just don't like—and as the war draws to a close, the couple travels to Windsor to meet Jack's family. But when Vivian meets Jack's mother and brother, everything she thought she knew about her husband gets called into question. They don't live in the dream home Jack depicted, they all look different from one another—different from anyone Vivian has ever seen--and after weeks of waiting to meet Jack's father, he never materializes. Steeped in jazz and big-band music, spanning pre- and post-war Windsor-Detroit, St. John's, Newfoundland, and 1950s Toronto, this is an arresting, heartwrenching novel about fathers and sons, love and sacrifice, race relations and a time in our history when the world was on the cusp of momentous change.