Download or read book Condor Mountain written by Angela Dorsey and published by Enchanted Pony Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elena’s dad is injured and trapped with his horse, Gato, in the Andes mountains. Above them, the condors are circling, ready to strike as soon as they consider their prey weak enough. The man and horse need help, quickly. Elena is the only one who can get to them on time, but she doesn’t want to believe that they’re in danger. She’s afraid to go into the mountains alone – and she certainly doesn’t trust the strange girl who says she’ll help, the girl who rides the wild mare that no one has ever been able to tame.

Download or read book Mountain of the Condor written by Joseph W. Bastien and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1985-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In midwestern Bolivia stands Kaata, a sacred mountain. In a thousand-year tradition, a small community of men and women diviners has lived on its slopes. The symbolism of Mt. Kaata and its rituals provide deep insight into Andean society. With a wonderful blend of personal narrative, rich description, and theoretical presentation, the author sheds new light on the previously misinterpreted Bolivian Indians and their ancient Andean religion, rich in symbolism and ritual.

Download or read book Mountain of the condor written by Joseph William Bastien and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Condor written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Condor Recovery Plan written by California Condor Recovery Team and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Condor written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mountain written by Bernard Debarbieux and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the Enlightenment to the present day, and using a variety of case studies from all the continents, the authors show us how our ideas of and about mountains have changed with the times and how a wide range of policies, from border delineation to forestry as well as nature protection and social programs, have been shaped according to them. A rich hybrid analysis of geography, history, culture, and politics."--Jacket.

Download or read book Revised California Condor Recovery Plan written by California Condor Recovery Team and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mountain of the Condor written by Joseph William Bastien and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Condor Gymnogyps Californianus written by Lloyd F. Kiff and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Andes written by Tui De Roy and published by Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent tour of the world's longest mountain range. The Andes of South America is the youngest, longest, most varied mountain range on the planet. Its 4,500 miles of rock and ice, forests and deserts, smoldering volcanoes and razor-sharp granite spires span the same distance as New York to Moscow. The Andes mountains are still in the full throes of formation. This dramatic process reveals itself in breathtaking forms thousands of feet high. The Andes examines this astonishing natural phenomenon with superb color photography and richly detailed text. The Andes describes: The effects of the region's plate tectonics Ecuador's cloud forests and volcanoes Peru's windswept plateaus The canyons and wetlands along the Peru-Chile border The terrain from Amazon rainforest to the Pacific desert coast The Altiplano of Bolivia The mystery forest of the Great Patagonian Divide The fiords, islands, glaciers and steppes from Patagonia to Cape Horn. Each chapter on a specific region begins with a comprehensive introduction explaining essential geological and environmental facts. Stunning color photographs of the region's landscape, plants and animals bear concise, explanatory captions. The Andes is an expansive book that beautifully captures the extraordinary environments of this spectacular mountain range.

Download or read book Mapping Mountains written by Ernesto Capello and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an initial overview and critique of the traditional historiography and development of techniques of relief representation, the essay features four clusters of mountain mapping emphases. These include visions of mountains as paradise, the mountain as site of colonial and postcolonial encounter, the development of elevation profiles and panoramas, and mountains as mass-marketed touristed itineraries.

Download or read book The Will to Write written by Reg. B. Cornejo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After I finished writing this book, I found myself noting or recognizing the stories, essays, and poems found in this book tell the story of my life. The book in short provides a look into my philosophy of life and the wisdom I use (and have used) to survive and live in a white man’s world, without going crazy or giving up. As the public reads my short essays, stories, and poems, I hope the message found in my written works will help them see and feel why I stay connected to my people and their wisdom, a wisdom that has taught me to always stay connected to mother earth and my people’s “Red Road.” I want to note the stories, essays, and poems found in my book come from both published works and works I never sent in to get published. I hope the wide range of topics found in this collection will not only touch my readers but they will also challenge them to see life under a new light, a “modern-day Red-Man’s light.” Since this book is a collection of many published and unpublished works, I felt it was best to not separate this book into chapters. I made this choice because I feel each essay, story, prose, and poem is powerful enough to stand on its own. As my readers work their way through my book, I hope they will take the time to stop and think about the message found in each written work and hopefully, in some cases, find themselves reconnecting with the land that is America and my people’s wisdom that says, “We are one with mother earth,” and “we are all born to die because life is a circle like the Native American Medicine Wheel.”

Download or read book Return to Wild America written by Scott Weidensaul and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Wild America," naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Roger Tory Peterson's and James Fisher's steps to tell the story of wild America today.

Download or read book Condor Comeback written by Sy Montgomery and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conservation, where science meets adventure"--Jacket.

Download or read book Return of the Condor written by John Moir and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A heart-stopping saga of the rescue from the very brink of extinction of one of the grandest of all birds.”—Thomas Lovejoy, president of the Amazon Biodiversity Center. RETURN OF THE CONDOR is the riveting account of one of the most dramatic attempts to save a species from extinction in the history of modern conservation. Features a new Afterword by the author. With the condor’s population down to only twenty-two birds in the 1980s and their very survival in doubt, the condor recovery team flouted conventional wisdom and pursued a controversial strategy to pull the bird back from the brink of extinction. Thus began the ongoing, decades-long program to reestablish America’s largest bird in its ancient home in Western skies. Award-winning science writer John Moir takes readers into the backcountry to get to know the recovery program scientists as well as some of the individual condors. These are stories of peril, uncertainty, and controversy. Woven throughout these tales of heartbreak and triumph is the extraordinary dedication of the humans who have sometimes risked their lives for this charismatic, intelligent, and social bird. Despite the program’s remarkable successes, the condor’s narrative is still unfolding with a number of challenges remaining. This includes the dilemma of lead poisoning among free-flying condors that is a major obstacle to the bird’s recovery. The new Afterword presents a compelling examination of the progress and continuing adversity facing the condor recovery effort since the first edition of the book was published. Finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize from the Stanford University Libraries Honorable Mention from the National Association of Science Writers