Download or read book Bird Bent Grass written by Kathleen Venema and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother–daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease twenty years later. In 1986, Kathleen accepted a three-year teaching assignment in Uganda, after a devastating civil war, and Geeske promised to be her daughter’s most faithful correspondent. The two women exchanged more than two hundred letters that reflected their lively interest in literature, theology, and politics, and explored ideas about identity, belonging, and home in the context of cross-cultural challenges. Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer’s disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image – of simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience – sustained her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive. Deftly woven of excerpts from their correspondence, conversations, journal entries, and email updates, Bird-Bent Grass is a complex and moving exploration of memory, illness, and immigration; friendship, conflict, resilience, and forgiveness; cross-cultural communication, the ethics of international development, and letter-writing as a technology of intimacy. Throughout, it reflects on the imperative and fleeting business of being alive and loving others while they’re ours to hold.
Download or read book A History of North American Birds written by Spencer Fullerton Baird and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of North American Birds written by S. Baird and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-18 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book The Humane Gardener written by Nancy Lawson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Download or read book Birds of the northwest a hand book of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri river and its tributaries by E Coues 1874 written by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birds of New England and Adjacent States Containing descriptions of the Birds of New England and Adjoining States and Provinces Arranged by long Approved Classification and Nomenclature written by Edward Augustus Samuel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-10 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The Birds of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Birds of America written by John James Audubon and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
Download or read book Austral English written by Edward Ellis Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English, including loan words from indigenous languages, originally published in 1898.
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Download or read book Thoreau s Notes on Birds of New England written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his two-year residence at Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau became keenly aware of the natural world that surrounded him. Entries from his journals reflect his soulful, in-depth observations of local wildlife, and his remarks on birds are particularly plentiful and poetic. This book, originally published as Notes on New England Birds in 1910 and edited and arranged by Francis H. Allen, collects Thoreau's thoughts on the various bird species that populated the New England woods, from the great blue heron to the kingbird and the American finch. "Open to any page and you will find, besides apt descriptions of the natural world, a cogent remark or a philosophical observation," noted The Washington Post. Bird lovers and watchers, fans of Thoreau, and naturalists and environmentalists will delight in joining the author as he saunters through the woods and ponders the region's abundant wildlife. A new selection of 16 full-page color illustrations by John James Audubon enhances the text.
Download or read book Austral English written by Edward Ellis Morris and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1898 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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