Download or read book Alligator John D written by John Dumont Hudson and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dumont Hudson, or Alligator John D as he is affectionately known, organized and became the first pastor of First Baptist Church in St. Elmo, Alabama, without formal theology or training. After preaching the gospel for more than twenty years, at sixty-two years old he started an alligator farm in Southern Florida that soon became a roaring success. From his recollections of life as a young rebellious boy in the rural South to his tales of taking European tourists on airboat tours and wrestling alligators, the story of Alligator John D is proof that there is an angel inside every mischievous child, and that the twists and turns of life can often lead us to the last place we every expected to be. Most importantly, Alligator John D is a reminder to readers to keep the Creator first, throughout lifes unpredictable moments. Once this is accomplished, all other necessities will fall into place.
Download or read book Alligators written by Kent A. Vliet and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide to understanding the biology and behavior of the amazing and underappreciated American alligator. Few scenes put the senses on edge more than a submerged alligator, only eyes and snout showing, when peering across a southern lake on a misty morning. An iconic American predator, these reptiles grow to thirteen feet or more and can live as long as humans. Alligators are complex creatures, capable of terrific attacks and yet tending to their young in the same gentle way a mother duck looks after her brood. Once extremely numerous, alligators came close to extinction in the twentieth century, but thanks to conservation efforts have since made a comeback, reclaiming their rightful place as the monarchs of the southern wetlands. In this fascinating account, richly illustrated with more than 150 photographs from award-winning wildlife photographer Wayne Lynch, expert zoologist Kent A. Vliet introduces readers to the biology, ecology, and natural history of the American alligator. Sharing nuanced depictions of their hidden lives that will forever change the way you think of these giant reptiles, the book • combines captivating storytelling with the most current scientific facts • chronicles the life cycle of the alligator • explains why the alligator's precise anatomy and physiology make it so successful • covers a wide range of topics, from courtship and reproduction to communication, basking, nest-building, and hunting • reveals the alligator's sophisticated social life in detail • evaluates the alligator's environmental role as a keystone species • examines the complicated relationship between alligators and people
Download or read book The Chinese Alligator written by John Thorbjarnarson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated throughout and featuring the most up-to-date biological information available, this volume is a complete overview of the Chinese alligator, a conservation and cultural icon.
Download or read book Alligator Candy written by David Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love—and the basis for the podcast Alligator Candy. David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding bikes and disappearing into the nearby woods for hours at a time. One morning in 1973, however, everything changed. David’s older brother Jon biked through the forest to the convenience store for candy, and never returned. Every life has a defining moment, a single act that charts the course we take and determines who we become. For Kushner, it was Jon’s disappearance—a tragedy that shocked his family and the community at large. Decades later, now a grown man with kids of his own, Kushner found himself unsatisfied with his own memories and decided to revisit the episode a different way: through the eyes of a reporter. His investigation brought him back to the places and people he once knew and slowly made him realize just how much his past had affected his present. After sifting through hundreds of documents and reports, conducting dozens of interviews, and poring over numerous firsthand accounts, he has produced a powerful and inspiring story of loss, perseverance, and memory. Alligator Candy is searing and unforgettable.
Download or read book Alligator written by Lisa Moore and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Moore's Alligatorgives dramatic birth to a new kind of fiction: North Atlantic Gothic. The story moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland — a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle each other in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, lust, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Meet Madeleine, the driven aging filmmaker whose mission is to complete a Bergmanesque magnum opus before she dies; Frank, a young man of innocence and determination whose life is a strange anthology of unpredictable dangers; Valentin, the sociopathic Russian refugee whose predatory tendencies threaten everyone he encounters; and Colleen, at seventeen a hard-edged female Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. In these pages humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly. Listen to its heartbeat, and be moved — and delighted.
Download or read book But I Am an Alligator written by Lauren Child and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lola has a favorite alligator costume that she wants to wear absolutely everywhere. Charlie tells her she can't wear it ALL the time, but Lola argues that she can. Much to Charlie's embarrassment, Lola wears her alligator costume to the supermarket and the park. She even plans to wear it for her school talk called "All about Me!" Can Charlie stop Lola from making a fool of herself in front of the whole school?
Download or read book Alligators of Texas written by Louise Hayes and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Found only in the United States, the American alligator ranges in Texas through 120 counties, from the Sabine River to the Rio Grande, across a swath of river drainages and coastal marshes that include both the backwater swamps of the Big Thicket and the urban bayous of greater Houston. From its beginning in a pile of eggs buried in a meticulously constructed nest to its possible end as an alligator burger or a pair of boots, an alligator’s habitat preferences sometimes coincide with the favorite haunts of boaters, hunters, and coastal residents. In Alligators of Texas, biologist Louise Hayes and photographer Philippe Henry bring readers up close to this cryptic reptile’s food choices, parenting skills, communication techniques, and responses to natural events such as freezes and hurricanes. They also relate some Texas “alligator tales”; discuss alligator farming, hunting, and live capturing; and examine how people can successfully co-exist with this predator. They end by telling readers where they can view alligators, both in the wild and in captivity. Although not as often, as easily, or perhaps as happily observed as white-tailed deer or armadillos, the American alligator is an iconic Texas animal, and knowing more about its life and habits can help Texans better understand its rightful place in the landscape.
Download or read book Riding the Alligator written by Pen Densham and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're thinking about writing a screenplay, do yourself a favor and hop on Pen Densham's Alligator. The ride's enlightening."---Jeff Bridges, Academy Award "-winning actor --
Download or read book Snappsy the Alligator Did Not Ask to Be in This Book written by Julie Falatko and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snappsy the alligator is having a normal day when a pesky narrator steps in to spice up the story. Is Snappsy reading a book ... or is he making CRAFTY plans? Is Snappsy on his way to the grocery store ... or is he PROWLING the forest for defenseless birds and fuzzy bunnies? Is Snappsy innocently shopping for a party ... or is he OBSESSED with snack foods that start with the letter P? What's the truth? Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) is an irreverent look at storytelling, friendship, and creative differences, perfect for fans of Mo Willems.
Download or read book AAAlligator written by Judith Henderson and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous tale about acceptance, social justice and keeping an open mind. Though he’s scared at first, a boy who encounters an alligator in the woods discovers all the creature wants is companionship — and leftovers! — and the two become friends. But the mayor of the boy’s town won’t have it. He makes a proclamation, “NO ALLIGATORS! Blah, blah, blah.” Which the townspeople agree with, at first. Then they realize how friendly the alligator is (and how nice it is to have someone eat their leftovers!), and they want him to stay. Can they all come together and find a way to keep the alligator in their town? See you later, alligator? Not if these townspeople can help it!
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-07 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traveling South written by John David Cox and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. John Cox makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts that includes slave narratives, domestic literature, and soldiers’ diaries, as well as more traditional forms of travel writing. In the process he extends the boundaries of travel literature both as a genre and as a subject of academic study. The writers of these intranational accounts struggled with the significance of travel through a region that was both America and “other.” In writings by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram, for example, the narrators create personal identities and express their Americanness through travel that, Cox argues, becomes a defining aspect of the young nation. In the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup, the complex relationship between travel and slavery highlights contemporary debates over the meaning of space and movement. Both Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs explore the intimate linkings of women’s travel and the construction of an ideal domestic space, whereas Frederick Law Olmsted seeks, through his travel writing, to reform the southern economy and expand a New England yeoman ideology throughout the nation. The Civil War diaries of Union soldiers, written during the years that witnessed the largest movement of travelers through the South, echo earlier themes while concluding that the South should not be transformed in order to become sufficiently “American”; rather, it was and should remain a part of the American nation, regardless of perceived differences.
Download or read book From the Realm Beyond written by John V. Konior & Ted J. Konior and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle between good and evil dating back to the dawn of time surfaces, and is waged in its most grotesque form in the Florida coastal town of Sands Stone. Sinister forces are creating havoc, and horror and suspense abounds. A serial killer thought to be severely mentally afflicted is committed to the town's State mental institution. A bizarre series of events and horrible murders occur shortly after his institutionalization making his doctor, the caring Maria Paxton, suspect that her patient's problems could be deadly serious. Although she refuses to believe in the supernatural, the nature of continuing events causes her to realize that the serial killer is possessed. Dark forces are behind the madness, and murders are being committed that are indescribable. Although attempting to determine who is behind the chaos, the town's corrupt mayor, police chief, and the chief's detective nephew continue to practice a lucrative drug trade. Police efforts are being hampered by the presence of an evil and maniacal satanic cult priestess, and a deranged cult priest. But the cult priest is seeking means to have the priestess sacrificed while finding a way to save his son, the alleged serial killer that has been committed in Sand's Stone mental health institution. To make the already deadly and complicated situation even worse, a local newsman with a Napoleonic complex attempts to discredit the police chief while also investigating the bizarre murders that have occurred. What he discovers places him and his two-man team in danger of losing their lives. Dr. Paxton and her manly husband are thrown into the midst of the madness and end up fighting for their lives. No one is safe and the outcomeremains very much in doubt considering the bizarre murders, kidnappings, town bombings, voodoo practice, satanic cult activity, demoniac possession, human sacrifices, a freakish tropical storm, hungry alligators and poisonous snakes, a flamboyant Cajun Everglades guide, mysterious disa
Download or read book Report of the Central Park Menagerie written by Conklin and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lyle Lyle Crocodile written by Bernard Waber and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1965 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St. until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that.
Download or read book The Executive s Book of Quotations written by Julia Vitullo-Martin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This browsers delight is brimming with thousands of quotations for use in business speeches, reports, articles, or simply to spice conversation over lunch. 500 topics are arranged alphabetically, with everything from witticisms to epigrams to sage adages.
Download or read book Alligators and Crocodiles written by Laurence Pringle and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dinosaurs were outlived by crocodile-like predators. today, their descendants are found on five continents. These animals are strange and wonderful indeed.
