Download or read book Bird Dream written by Matt Higgins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN / ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing (2015 LONGLIST) “[P]erversely entertaining... In a truly intoxicating read that was hard to put down, Matt Higgins has managed to make real a world about as far removed from daily life as it gets.” --Daily Beast "Matt Higgins cracks open this astonishingly dangerous sport and captures the spectacular adrenaline surges it delivers."--The Wall Street Journal "[R]iveting... a must-read. A highflying, electrifying story." --Kirkus (STARRED) A heart-stopping narrative of risk and courage, Bird Dream tells the story of the remarkable men and women who pioneered the latest advances in aerial exploration—from skydiving to BASE jumping to wingsuit flying—and made history with their daring. By the end of the twentieth century BASE jumping was the most dangerous of all the extreme sports, with thrill-seeking jumpers parachuting from bridges, mountains, radio towers, and even skyscrapers. Despite numerous fatalities and legal skirmishes, BASE jumpers like Jeb Corliss of California thought they had discovered the ultimate rush. But all this changed for Corliss in 1999, when, high in the mountains of northern Italy, he and other jumpers watched in wonder as a stranger—wearing a cunning new jumpsuit featuring “wings” between the arms and legs—leaped from a ledge and then actually flew from the vertiginous cliffs. Drawing on intimate access to Corliss and other top pilots from around the globe,Bird Dream tracks the evolution of the wingsuit movement through the larger than life characters who, in an age of viral video, forced the sport onto the world stage. Their exploits—which entranced millions of fans along the way—defied imagination. They were flying; not like the Wright brothers, but the way we do in our dreams. Some dared to dream of going further yet, to a day when a wingsuit pilot might fly, and land, all without a parachute. A growing number of wingsuit pilots began plotting ways in which a human being might leap from the sky and land. A half dozen groups around the world were dedicated to this quest for a “wingsuit landing,” conjuring the pursuit of nations that once inspired the race to first summit Everest. Given his fame as a stuntman, the brash, publicity-hungry Corliss remained the popular favorite to claim the first landing. Yet Bird Dream also tracks the path of another man, Gary Connery—a forty-two-year-old Englishman—who was quietly plotting to beat Corliss at his own game. Accompanied by an international cast of wingsuit devotees—including a Finnish magician, a parachute tester from Brazil, an Australian computer programmer, a gruff hang-gliding champion-turned-aeronautical engineer, a French skydiving champion, and a South African costume designer—Corliss and Connery raced to leap into the unknown, a contest that would lead to triumph for one and nearly cost the other his life. Based on five years of firsthand reporting and original interviews, Bird Dream is the work of journalist Matt Higgins, who traveled the world alongside these extraordinary men and women as they jumped and flew in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Offering a behind-the-scenes take on some of the most spectacular and disastrous events of the wingsuit movement, Higgins’s Bird Dream is a riveting, adrenaline-fueled adventure at the very edge of human experience.
Download or read book Dream Bird written by Paula Lund and published by paula lund. This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream Bird is a short story written by Paula Lund that is about a bird that everybody in town dreamed up and naming the bird, "Dream Bird."
Download or read book Birds in a Book A Bouquet in a Book written by Lesley Earle (Children's author) and published by Bouquet in a Book. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains ten beloved birds from around the world, each perched on a branch that you can 'pop up' from the page.
Download or read book I Dreamed of Flying Like a Bird written by Robert B. Haas and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Haas, a photographer with National Geographic, presents his photographs of animals from around the world, which he shot from the air.
Download or read book The Dream Bird written by Aleesah Darlison and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time in a faraway land there lived the rarest of rare birds. The Dream Bird.George is a day child. He rollicks and romps in the light. But at night, George just can¿t seem to get to sleep. That is, until Gran tells him a bedtime story about a magical bird who sings children to sleep.Will the Dream Bird's magic work on George? A stunning bedtime book that will enchant readers young and old.
Download or read book Wild Dog Dreaming written by Deborah Bird Rose and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth's systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities. Drawing on her conversations with Aboriginal people, for whom questions of extinction are up-close and very personal, Rose develops a mode of exposition that is dialogical, philosophical, and open-ended. An inspiration for Rose--and a touchstone throughout her book--is the endangered dingo of Australia. The dingo is not the first animal to face extinction, but its story is particularly disturbing because the threat to its future is being actively engineered by humans. The brazenness with which the dingo is being wiped out sheds valuable, and chilling, light on the likely fate of countless other animal and plant species. "People save what they love," observed Michael Soul , the great conservation biologist. We must ask whether we, as humans, are capable of loving--and therefore capable of caring for--the animals and plants that are disappearing in a cascade of extinctions. Wild Dog Dreaming engages this question, and the result is a bold account of the entangled ethics of love, contingency, and desire.
Download or read book The Freedom Race written by Lucinda Roy and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy’s explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial “Muleseeds” are bred. Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Lottermule knows there is only one way to escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner. Ji-ji and her friends must exhume a survival story rooted in the collective memory of a kidnapped people and conjure the voices of the dead to light their way home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Flying the Coop written by Lucinda Roy and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucinda Roy continues the Dreambird Chronicles, her explosive first foray into speculative fiction, with Flying the Coop, the thought-provoking sequel to The Freedom Race Dreams are promises your imagination makes to itself. In the disunited states, no person of color—especially not a girl whose body reimagines flight—is safe. A quest for Freedom has brought former Muleseed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Silapu to D.C., aka Dream City, the site of monuments and memorials—where, long ago, the most famous Dreamer of all time marched for the same cause. As Ji-ji struggles to come to terms with her shocking metamorphosis and her friends, Tiro and Afarra, battle formidable ghosts of their own, the former U.S. capital decides whose dreams it wants to invest in and whose dreams it will defer. The journeys the three friends take to liberate themselves and others will not simply defy the status quo, they will challenge the nature of reality itself. Book Two of the Dreambird Chronicles The Dreambird Chronicles The Freedom Race Flying the Coop At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Towards the Time of the Golden Light Bird written by Nina Kristiina Honkanen and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking our treasure in the Garden of Dreams, swimming with dolphins in hyperspace, riding our lion through the desert to the secrets of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid and awakening to Higher Consciousness are maybe just dreams or products of our imagination. Or could it be they are more than that? When reading this book, we embark on an inner journey in which the dream state, being awake and the Higher Consciousness experience overlap, leading us inevitably towards our true treasure, the Light body and our collective I Am that I Am - essence. With its sense of adventure, poetic rhythm and spiritual-scientific theme, the story is set to inspire both young and adult "treasure seekers" alike. Within each of us lies a golden inner child, who can see beyond the ordinary and who we need to learn to love and cherish in order to free our mind from the illusions of this material "world of dreams" and to orient ourselves towards our higher purpose. Throughout the entire book there is the Consciousness Song for Treasure Seekers - poem progressing as a "blue river of words" that functions like a "book within a book". It can be read separately as a standalone text.
Download or read book Your Dream Pet Bird written by Darla Birde and published by Dreambirbs Publications. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover two of the world's most captivating pet birds... Contains the complete text of both guides, Your Dream Pet Lovebird and Your Dream Pet Cockatiel. Includes a guide to cockatiel body language. Learn to read your cockatiel's moods like a book. This complete twenty-first-century guide will give you everything you need to get started with lovebirds and cockatiels, two of the world's most popular pet birds. Even if you're a complete beginner, this compact but complete book will give you the tools you need to get started right. *Your Dream Pet Lovebird Want a single pocket pet? This book will explain why it is mission critical to begin with a young, healthy, hand-raised lovebird. And it will teach you what all bird owners should know to choose, bond with, and care for your perfect pet lovebird. Want to keep aviary birds for their beauty? Want to explore the mysteries of breeding them for their wide variety of color mutations? This book, while not an exhaustive guide to breeding and hand-feeding lovebirds, will give you a taste of what's involved and allow you to decide if you're ready to take your hobby further. *Your Dream Pet Cockatiel This complete twenty-first-century guide will give you everything you need to get started with your pet cockatiel, one of the world's most popular pet birds. Even if you're completely new to keeping a bird as a pet, this compact but complete book will give you the tools you need to develop a long-lasting relationship with your feathered companion. Looking for a loyal shoulder bird who will play with you and maybe learn to whistle some tunes? This book will help you make good decisions to select the highest quality pet. Follow the easy steps inside to create an ongoing bond with your dream cockatiel. Thinking about starting an aviary to display or breed the striking cockatiel mutations? This book, while not an exhaustive guide to breeding and hand-feeding 'tiels, will help you decide if you're ready to go down that path. Cockatiels are right-sized, easy-to-handle birds who fit well into our modern lives and homes. This concise, experience-based guide will help you get the best from your new pet. Keywords & themes: pet birds, cockatiels as pets, pet cockatiels, lovebirds, lovebirds as pets, pet lovebirds, taming cockatiels, taming lovebirds, handfed lovebirds, domestic bred pet birds, domestic parrots, feeding cockatiels, feeding lovebirds, recipes bird food, bonding, bird bonding, bonding with lovebirds, bonding with cockatiels, pet bird behavior, pet cockatiel egg-laying, pet lovebird egg-laying, healthy pet birds, free flight pet birds, raising lovebirds, cockatiel mutations, lovebird mutations, lovebird species, rare lovebirds, popular lovebirds, peachfaced lovebirds, masked lovebirds, aggressive lovebirds, playful lovebirds, playful cockatiels, cockatiel nest, cockatiel cage, cockatiel aviary, lovebird nest, lovebird cage, lovebird aviary.
Download or read book Someone Builds the Dream written by Lisa Wheeler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buildings, bridges, and books don't exist without the workers who are often invisible in the final product, as this joyous and profound picture book reveals from acclaimed author of The Christmas Boot Lisa Wheeler and New York Times bestselling illustrator of Love Loren Long All across this great big world, jobs are getting done by many hands in many lands. It takes much more than ONE. Gorgeously written and illustrated, this is an eye-opening exploration of the many types of work that go into building our world--from the making of a bridge to a wind farm, an amusement park, and even the very picture book that you are reading. An architect may dream up the plans for a house, but someone has to actually work the saws and pound the nails. This book is a thank-you to the skilled women and men who work tirelessly to see our dreams brought to life.
Download or read book Summer and Bird written by Katherine Catmull and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting--and twisted--tale of two sisters' quest to find their parents When their parents disappear in the middle of the night, young sisters Summer and Bird set off on a quest to find them. A cryptic picture message from their mother leads them to a familiar gate in the woods, but comfortable sights quickly give way to a new world entirely--Down--one inhabited by talking birds and the evil Puppeteer queen. Summer and Bird are quickly separated, and their divided hearts lead them each in a very different direction in the quest to find their parents, vanquish the Puppeteer, lead the birds back to their Green Home, and discover the identity of the true bird queen. With breathtaking language and deliciously inventive details, Katherine Catmull has created a world unlike any other, skillfully blurring the lines between magic and reality and bringing to life a completely authentic cast of characters and creatures.
Download or read book Dreambirds written by David Ogden and published by Illumination Arts Pub. Co.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natsama, a Native American boy, loves to visit his grandmother, Holima, the medicine woman. On his seventh birthday, she tells him about dreambirds and that whoever finds one receives a great gift. As the seasons come and go, Natsama is led on a mystical adventure where at last he finds his dreambird and receives his gift.
Download or read book Bird Medicine written by Evan T. Pritchard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the living spiritual tradition surrounding birds in Native American culture • Pairs scholarly research with more than 200 firsthand accounts of bird signs from traditional Native Americans and their descendants • Examines the legends, wisdom, and powers of the birds known as the gatekeepers of the four directions—Eagle, Hawk, Crow, and Owl • Provides many examples of bird sign interpretations and human-bird communication that can be applied in your own encounters with birds Birds are our strongest allies in the natural world. Revered in Native American spirituality and shamanic traditions around the world, birds are known as teachers, guardians, role models, counselors, healers, clowns, peacemakers, and meteorologists. They carry messages and warnings from loved ones and the spirit world, report deaths and injuries, and channel divine intelligence to answer our questions. Some of their “signs” are so subtle that one could discount them as subjective, but others are dramatic enough to strain even a skeptic’s definition of coincidence. Pairing scholarly research with more than 200 firsthand accounts of bird encounters from traditional Native Americans and their descendants, Evan Pritchard explores the living spiritual tradition surrounding birds in Native American culture. He examines in depth the birds known as the gatekeepers of the four directions--Eagle in the North, Hawk in the East, Crow in the South, and Owl in the West--including their roles in legends and the use of their feathers in shamanic rituals. He reveals how the eagle can be a direct messenger of the Creator, why crows gather in “Crow Councils,” and how shamans have the ability to travel inside of birds, even after death. Expanding his study to the wisdom and gifts of birds beyond the four gatekeepers, such as hummingbirds, seagulls, and the mythical thunderbird, he provides numerous examples of everyday bird sign interpretations that can be applied in your own encounters with birds as well as ways we can help protect birds and encourage them to communicate with us.
Download or read book Silent Days Silent Dreams written by Allen Say and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say brings his lavish illustrations and hybrid narrative and artistic styles to the story of artist James Castle. James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read, or use sign language.Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major museums throughout the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened "James Castle: A Retrospective" in 2008. The 2013 Venice Biennale included eleven works by Castle in the feature exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace." And his reputation continues to grow.Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say, author of the acclaimed memoir Drawing from Memory, takes readers through an imagined look at Castle's childhood, allows them to experience his emergence as an artist despite the overwhelming difficulties he faced, and ultimately reveals the triumphs that he would go on toachieve.
Download or read book 10 000 Dreams Interpreted written by Gustavus Hindman Miller and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-02-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes index.
Download or read book Jungian Dream Interpretation written by James Albert Hall and published by Inner City Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive guide to an understanding of dreams in light of the basic principles of analytical psychology. Particular attention to common motifs, the role of complexes, and the goal and purpose of dreams.
