Download or read book Akimbo and the Crocodile Man written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akimbo goes to the rescue of a zoologist who is injured on his father's game preserve.
Download or read book Crocodile Men written by Bryan Peach and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paragaea written by Chris Roberson and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paragaea: A Planetary Romance is the story of Akilina "Leena" Chirikov, who shortly after launching from Star Town in the Soviet Union, finds herself thrown into another dimension, a world of strange science and ancient mystery. There she meets another time-lost person from Earth, Lieutenant Hieronymus Bonaventure of the Royal Navy—who left home to fight the forces of Napoleon and never returned—and his companion, Balam—outlaw prince of the jaguar men. Bonaventure is interested only in adventure and amusement, while Balam only wants distraction until the day he can reclaim his throne. Having little better to do, they agree to help Chirikov find a way home. In the tradition of the planetary romances of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett, Paragaea is in fact a "hard" science fiction adventure, grounded in the latest thinking in the fields of theoretical physics, artificial intelligence, genetics, and more. There is a rigorously rational explanation behind all of the unearthly elements, with most of the "magic" the protagonist encounters being the products of a forgotten, transhuman, post-singularity culture that has long since disappeared. Chirikov, a strictly rational Soviet cosmonaut, interprets these as best she can, using the framework of early 1960s science. Being a dutiful Soviet, she wants only to return home to Earth, to inform her superiors about what she has discovered. But she soon finds herself developing ties to her companion Bonaventure that make her wonder whether she really wants to go home at all.
Download or read book Discoveries of a Crocodile Man written by Tony Pooley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Crocodile Man written by André Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Canoes and Crocodiles written by Tony Robinson-Smith and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout canoes and paddled down the Sepik, the country’s longest river. Traveling with local guides and staying in their villages, Tony and Nadya ate smoked piranha and sago pancakes, heard tales of river gods and sorcerers, marvelled at rainbow bee-eaters and cat-size flying foxes, sank in a tropical storm, got lost in mosquito-infested swamplands, and hid from pirates in mangroves near the sea. As the narrative follows the bends of the river, Robinson-Smith incorporates into its flow descriptions of crocodile initiation rites, village “big men,” the barter system, raskolism, and sing-sings. He reflects on clan loyalty, colonization, Christian missionaries, bride price, the environmental impacts of foreign logging and mining, and the joys and fears of following the current down a long, snaky waterway in a volatile Australasian country.
Download or read book The Crocodile s Son written by Stephen Brooke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qala, once Queen of the Pirates, had retired, hoping only for a comfortable and peaceful country life for herself and her little demigod son. Any of us might wish for such things. But others had their own plans. The boy's relatives, an unruly family of deities, felt called upon to meddle in his upbringing - and one might just want him dead. Add to this the politics and intrigues of mortal men and women, and their penchant for falling in love, as well as her old crew who think Qala has hidden treasure somewhere about her estate. Kidnappings and quests, an adventure through the worlds of gods and of mortals, await Qala in Book One of The Crocodile Chronicles, THE CROCODILE'S SON.
Download or read book The Crocodile Men written by Angus MacVicar and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crocodile Undone written by Marcus Baynes-Rock and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, animals are being domesticated at an unprecedented rate and scale. But what exactly is domestication, and what does it tell us about ourselves? In this book, Marcus Baynes-Rock seeks the common thread linking stories about the domestication of Australia's native animals, arguing that domestication is part of a process by which late modernity threatens to undo the world. In a deeply personal account, the author tells of his encounters with crocodiles and emus behind fences, dingoes and kangaroos crossing boundaries, and native bees producing honey in his suburban backyard. Drawing on comparisons between Aboriginal and colonial Australians, Baynes-Rock reveals how the domestication of Australia’s fauna is a process of “unmaking.” As an extension of late modernity, the connections that tie humans and other animals to wider ecologies are being severed, threatening to isolate us and our domesticates from the rest of the world. It is here that Baynes-Rock reveals a key difference between Aboriginal and colonial Australian modes of landscape management: while one is focused on a systemic approach and sees humans as integral to ecological integrity, the other seeks to sever domesticates from ecological processes. The question that emerges is: How might we reconfigure and maintain these connections without undoing humanity? Written in the author’s characteristically frank, passionate, and humorous style, Crocodile Undone takes the reader on a journey across both physical and philosophical landscapes. This fascinating narrative will appeal to anyone interested in the vital connections between humans and animals.
Download or read book Crocodile Whisperers written by Keith K. Millheim and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Ring Assassin introduced Zoe Waringi—daughter of an Aboriginal mother and an Irish/Australian father. An expert on venomous sea life, she became a vigilante and assassin, eliminating people who escaped the law. She now returns but questions her job when she is contracted to terminate a Tokyo oyabun, the leader of the Inagawa-kai yakuza. Due to her hesitation, Zoe is now the target of her employer, a Jewish group called Der Finder with ties to the Mossad. The top Der Finder assassin in the United States is known as “The Invisible Man,” and he has never failed a contract. An airplane crash in the Florida Everglades involving Werner Kline changes everything, though, as The Invisible Man goes to Australia to hunt Zoe. Werner’s sister, Beth Kline, is a good-hearted rebel-with-a-cause, an avid eviromentalist with a strong connection to nature is drawn to Broome, Western Australia, where she meets an Aboriginal mystic and a maverick priest. Beth demonstrates the ability to communicate with deadly saltwater crocs, becoming known as a crocodile whisperer. She never expected the consequences of this incredible skill or her newfound connection to Zoe Waringi.
Download or read book Opportunity written by Elmer Anderson Carter and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Home of an Eastern Clan written by Mrs. Leslie Milne and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Crocodile written by Dan Wylie and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tick, tock, tick, tock.” Thanks to Peter Pan, this sound, if heard near water, means run: a hungry crocodile is on its way. J. M. Barrie isn’t fully to blame for spreading the word that crocodiles are our enemies, or at least the enemies of one-handed pirates—innumerable songs, stories, and legends have characterized these reptiles as a symbol of pitiless predation and insatiable appetite. Tracking twenty-three crocodilian species from India and Egypt to Africa, Australia, and beyond, Crocodile advocates that we do a complete one-eighty in our views of these magnificent creatures. Dan Wylie traces the crocodile in myth, art, and literature, demonstrating that though we commonly associate the reptiles with ferocity and deceit, they have also often been respected and revered in human history. Discussing how crocodiles were all but wiped out in the middle of the twentieth century by hunters and skin traders and are now making a comeback, he reveals that, as apex predators, they are today an increasingly important indicator of the health of an ecosystem and may outlive humans like they did dinosaurs. Presenting a concise, cogent case for why we should respect these fearsome animals, this beautifully illustrated volume is a tribute to one of the world’s ultimate survivors.
Download or read book Save the World Academy Part II The Crocodile s Smile written by James K.B. Brough and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
