Download or read book Flight of the Wild Geese written by Virgil Oglesby and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wild Geese written by Mary Oliver and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Oliver is one of America's best-loved poets, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.

Download or read book The Wild Geese written by Daniel Carney and published by . This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wild Geese Returning written by Mich?le M?tail and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the "flight of wild geese." These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as "a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing."

Download or read book Flight of the Wild Geese written by Graham Uney and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Flight of the Wild Geese follows the story of the winter wildlife of the Solway Firth, that wonderfully wild estuary set between the rugged hills of Cumbria and the rolling farmland, moors and forests of Dumfries and Galloway." "The author's journey takes him to remote islands, beginning with the two Scottish outliers of North Rona and Sula Sgeir, venturing ever northwards via the stunning rocky coasts of the Faroe Islands, the black-sand volcanics of Jan Mayen, and the great sea bird colonies of Bear Island before encountering pack ice in the vast sea channel of the Storfjorden. In Svalbard's Arctic waters, wildlife fills every space against the backdrop of glistening snowy peaks, and glaciers carving rivers of ice down to the sea. Ivory gulls roam the ice islands searching for food, while seals hunt the open flats between. Here, the author caught his first view of Svalbard - Kingdom of the Ice Bear."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Wild Geese written by Mark McLaughlin and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1980-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the English Civil War (1642-1651), a French traveller in England remarked that the Irish "are better soldiers abroad than at home." Between 1585 and 1818, over half a million Irish were lured from their homeland by promises of glory, money and honour in a constant emigration romantically styled "The Flight of the Wild Geese." Throughout this period, the Irish brigades in France and Spain participated in conflicts ranging from the wars of the Spanish and Austrian Succession (1701-1714 and 1740-1748 respectively) to the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Spanning over two centuries of history, this book examines the uniforms and organization of the Wild Geese in France and Spain.

Download or read book The Flight of the Snow Geese written by Des Bartlett and published by New York : Stein and Day. This book was released on 1975 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flight of the wild geese from the Arctic to the Texas shores of Mexico.

Download or read book Something Told the Wild Geese written by Rachel Field and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Field an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. Who is best known for the Newbery Award-winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, now has a newly completed title to add to her list of works, Something Told The Wild Geese. a new and fully illustrated children's book based on the poem written by Rachel field.

Download or read book Wild Geese Flying written by Deborah Van Dyken and published by Blair. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy named Alex learns about the wild geese who fly in the sky over the coastal waters of North Carolina. By day, his grandfather introduces him to the traditional art of carving decoys of ducks and geese in his workshop, and by night, the geese take Alex on a fantastical adventure.

Download or read book Flight of the Wild Geese written by William Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cataclysmic solar storm causes the most devastating calamity in human history. All modern machines and electronics are suddenly ruined and inoperable, crashing civilization into the dark ages. The fabric of modern society unravels in mere days as the complex network of communication, transportation, and food distribution is permanently destroyed. Panic ensues as food shortages and hunger overtake the major population centers. Riots, looting, and anarchy begin in the inner cities, but soon spread to the suburbs. With the worst winter on record hitting the eastern United States, it soon becomes clear that in just a few months most everyone will be dead. Even before the solar storm disaster struck, Adam Reynolds was a broken man, falling deep into the dark abyss of alcoholism. As a former Green Beret, he had seen enough war and suffering for a lifetime. At the time of the solar storm, he was living as a recluse in the woods of Maryland, forty miles north of Washington, D.C. At first, he felt as though he could ride out the coming famine and anarchy by relying on his well-stocked liquor cabinet and food supply. But circumstances compel Adam to pack what he can carry and to start a trek to flee the onslaught of hundreds of thousands of starving refugees. Adam's journey turns out to be cathartic as he goes through intense alcoholic withdrawals and fighting for his life against vicious survivors.While the effects of the solar storm were killing most of the planet, it had saved Adam from drinking himself to death. With each passing day his strength and hardiness increased. As his metamorphous continued Adam approached the point of turning feral. Then Adam comes upon a band of brutal survivors chasing a lone Amish woman in the woods of Pennsylvania with evil intentions. Returning to his spirit of humanity, Adam intervenes and saves her. In saving this young woman he now has a traveling companion. Together Adam and Rebecca will face the worst of nature and the worst of human nature.

Download or read book Papa Goose written by Michael Quetting and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Papa Goose is destined to become a classic. This book has everything in it I love: great animals beautifully portrayed as individuals; cool science; drama, discovery, and personal transformation.” —Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology and The Soul of An Octopus The charming true story of one man’s journey to raise seven goslings in the name of science. In Papa Goose, Michael Quetting shares the hilarious and moving true story of how he became a father to seven rambunctious goslings—and the surprising things he learned along the way. Starting right at the beginning, with the eggs, his journey takes him from the incubator all the way to the airstrip, where he must attempt to teach the geese to fly as part of an ambitious scientific research initiative for the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, which tracks animal migrations around the world. For the next eleven months, we follow the newly minted dad as he takes the goslings on daily swims in the lake, tracks them down when they go astray, and watches their personalities develop: feisty, churlish, and lovable. Packed with charm and humor, Papa Goose quickly draws us into the adventure as Gloria, Nemo, and the rest of the crew conquer land, water, and air.

Download or read book The Wild Goose written by Mori Ogai and published by U of M Center For Japanese Studies. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mori Ogai (1862–1922), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, wrote The Wild Goose at the turn of the century. Set in the early 1880s, it was, for contemporary readers, a nostalgic return to a time when the nation was embarking on an era of dramatic change. Ogai’s narrator is a middle-aged man reminiscing about an unconsummated affair, dating to his student days, between his classmate and a young woman kept by a moneylender. At a time when writers tended to depict modern, alienated male intellectuals, the characters of The Wild Goose are diverse, including not only students preparing for a privileged intellectual life and members of the plebeian classes who provide services to them, but also a pair of highly developed female characters. The author’s sympathetic and penetrating portrayal of the dilemmas and frustrations faced by women in this early period of Japan’s modernization makes the story of particular interest to readers today. Ogai was not only a prolific and popular writer, but also a protean figure in early modern Japan: critic, translator, physician, military officer, and eventually Japan’s Surgeon General. His rigorous and broad education included the Chinese classics as well as Dutch and German; he gained admittance to the Medical School of Tokyo Imperial University at the age of only fifteen. Once established as a military physician, he was sent to Germany for four years to study aspects of European medicine still unfamiliar to the Japanese. Upon his return, he produced his first works of fiction and translations of English and European literature. Ogai’s writing is extolled for its unparalleled style and psychological insight, nowhere better demonstrated than in The Wild Goose.

Download or read book The Irish Ch teaux written by Renagh Holohan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Chateaux looks back over centuries of migration between Ireland and France, beginning with the 'flight of the earls' in 1607 when military defeat at Kinsale and exile initiated a tradition sustained by political and economic necessity in subsequent years. The text, lavishly illustrated by over fifty pen-and-ink drawings, tells the stories of individual families and their chateaux, which number among the finest buildings in France. Soldiers, slavers, wine-producers, statesmen and entrepreneurs, many bear illustrious names and made lasting contributions to their host culture - the O'Mahonys and the Butlers of northern France, the Walshs of the Loire, the Hennessys of Cognac, the Bartons, Boyds and O' Byrnes of Bordeaux and Aquitaine, the MacMahons of Burgundy, the O'Neills and de Plunketts of Paris, the Dillons, MacCarthys and O'Briens of the Irish Brigades. The narrative begins and ends with Irish women memoirists: the celebrated Mme de la Tour du Pin, born Lucy Dillon; and the hitherto-unknown Lady Isabella Fitzgerald, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Leinster and niece of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. A delightful, informative guide, with map and gazetteer, it will apeal to traveller, historian, student, genealogist and Francophile alike. This new impression of a classic study contains an extended listing of chateaux and Further Reading.

Download or read book Wild Geese Sorrow written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New translations of the poems left behind at the Angel Island Immigration Station.

Download or read book Wild Geese written by Nan Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It will come as a very pleasant surprise to Nan Shepherd's growing following that there is a body of her work which has never been published in book form, and indeed will be entirely unknown outside a very small circle. The editor of this volume, Charlotte Peacock, found many of these gems when researching for the Nan Shepherd biography Into the Mountain, published by Galileo in 2017. The pieces that Peacock found include a brilliant and moving 10,000 word short story, "Descent from the Cross"; a series of 'field writings' which were written at the same time, and in the same style as, The Living Mountain; 15 poems, never seen before; a highly entertaining piece on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid and, from where the title of this collection arises, a haunting description of "Wild Geese in Glen Callater" a version of which also went into The Living Mountain.

Download or read book Wild Geese written by M. A. Ogilvie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In range, Wild Geese covers the geese of North America, Europe and Asia, and thus the world species except for the Hawaiian Goose or Ne-Ne. The plan of the book is similar to the author's Ducks of Britain and Europe but distribution, status and migration rightly assume a more extensive role in Wild Geese and the detailed text on those subjects is fully complemented by migration and distribution maps. Comprehensive chapters are also devoted to classification, ecology, breeding, identification, and to exploitation and conservation. The identification chapter is especially helpful with sections on adult and first winter birds, downy young, plumage variants and voice, for each species and sub-species, as well as guidance on ageing and sexing geese in the field. The text is effectively supported by 16 identification plates in colour by Carol Ogilvie, showing details of heads and bills as well as all species in flight and on the ground, and downy young. The author is an established authority on ducks and geese and has been a research scientist at the Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, England, since 1960.

Download or read book Wild Geese written by Lara Harte and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the death of her mother at an early age, Isabella Carroll was brought up by her wealthy Dublin aunt and uncle. The latter are keen to climb the ranks of Dublin society by making a suitably 'good' marriage for their niece. Isabella, however, is drawn to stories of her father who made his money on the plantations of Saint-Domingue, and to the idea of the 'Wild Geese', the Irish brigades who left their homes in search of a better life in France. When her aunt tries to set Isabella up with the wealthy but louche Gregory Murtogh, then the coldly calculating Mr M'Guire, Isabella decides to take her fate into her own hands. To the glee of the Dublin gossipmongers, Isabella sets off for Paris under the protection of the handsome but poor Dr Connor. But when she finally meets her father, she is in for a rude awakening about the source of his wealth. Added to that is the cool reception she receives from her father's cousin and her daughter, two women who want to exploit Isabella's innocence and idealism and gain access to her inheritance.