Author | : Suzi Eszterhas |
Publisher | : Owlkids |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781771474078 |
A look at nature photographer Suzi Eszterhas's life behind the camera
Author | : Suzi Eszterhas |
Publisher | : Owlkids |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781771474078 |
A look at nature photographer Suzi Eszterhas's life behind the camera
Author | : Simon Cowell |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-08-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781782435204 |
The true, heart-warming story of how a reluctant City trader left a life of champagne and bonuses to follow his dream of rescuing animals and setting up a wildlife sanctuary, becoming one of the world's leading experts on rescuing wildlife.
Author | : Roland H. Wauer |
Publisher | : Grover E. Murray Studies in th |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780896728851 |
"A retired National Park Service employee details his life working within the national parks; including photographs of landscapes and wildlife within multiple parks"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Keena Roberts |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1538745143 |
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy. Most girls Keena's age didn't spend their days changing truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as they tried to do their schoolwork. They also didn't carve bird whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious trying to make homemade palm wine. But Keena's parents were famous primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia and Botswana every six months. Dreamer, reader, and adventurer, she was always far more comfortable avoiding lions and hippopotamuses than she was dealing with spoiled middle-school field hockey players. In Keena's funny, tender memoir, Wild Life, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.
Author | : Gregory Green |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2023-11-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1683830830 |
Wild Lives presents a celebration of the beauty, ferocity, and revival of Earth’s endangered wildlife through the lens of legendary photographer Art Wolfe. Wild Lives is a celebration of the extraordinary diversity of species that inhabit the planet. Some are common, some rare, and many are conservation success stories, species that have been brought back from the edge of extinction. Over his forty-year career, Art Wolfe has photographed many species that were once on endangered species lists, but are now flourishing (such as the bald eagle and humpback whale). These recoveries are an uplifting testament to the resilience of life when it is given a chance. From amphibians and reptiles to mammals and birds, Wild Lives portrays an earthly aesthetic millions of years in the making. Wolfe has photographed more than 500 species in 60 countries, and the never-before-seen work in Wild forms his most comprehensive, globe-spanning book of photography he has ever published. Accompanying Wolfe’s photos are essays by renowned conservationist, Gregory Green. Focusing on the why of wildlife conservation and recovery, Green discusses the redistribution of animals and their habitats dating all the way back to the Ice Age. Together, Wolfe and Green have crafted a monograph that will not only shed new light on the creatures that surround us, but on humanity as a species as well.
Author | : Molly Gloss |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780618131570 |
Charlotte Bridger Drummond is a free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing woman who pens popular women's adventure stories on the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s. When a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search, where she becomes lost and falls into the company of an elusive band of giants.
Author | : Derek Bousé |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0812205847 |
If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world—particularly wild animals. The television fare offered nightly by national and cable networks such as PBS and the Discovery Channel provides millions of viewers with their only experience of the wilderness and its inhabitants. The very films that so many viewers take as accurate portrayals of wildlife, however, have evolved primarily as a form of entertainment, following the established codes and conventions of narrative exposition. The result has been not the representation of nature, but its wholesale reconstruction and reconfiguration according to film and television conventions, audience expectations, and the demands of competition in the media marketplace. Wildlife Films traces the genealogy of the nature film, from its origins as the "animal locomotion" studies that mark the very beginnings of motion pictures themselves, to the founding of the Animal Planet cable channel that boasts "all animals, all the time." The narrative and thematic elements that unite wildlife films as a genre have their roots not in the documentary film tradition, but in the older traditions of oral and written animal fables as reflections of human society. Derek Bousé contends that classic wildlife films often portray animal protagonists living in families modeled on an ideal of the human nuclear family and working in communities that resemble an ideal of bucolic human society. In these stories—presented as documentaries—animals are motivated by human emotions and conduct relationships according to human customs. This imposition of culturally satisfying narrative patterns upon the lives of animals has not only led to the misrepresentation of the natural world; it has promoted the notion that our values, our moral vision, our models of society and family structure derive from nature, rather than being cultural formations.
Author | : Bryan Robinson |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-05-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1664170456 |
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