Download or read book Pigeon Post written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who loves sailing and adventure, Arthur Ransome's classic Swallows and Amazons series stands alone. Originally published in the UK over a half century ago, these books are still eagerly read by children, despite their length and their decidedly British protagonists. We attribute their success to two facts: first, Ransome is a great storyteller and, second, he clearly writes from first-hand experience. Independence and initiative are qualities any child can understand and every volume in this collection celebrates these virtues. The crew's on holiday for their sixth adventure, and they turn their energies to mining for gold, aided by pigeon messengers Homer, Sophocles, and Sappho. The adventurers comb the nearby hills for a fabled lost claim, while being shadowed by a mysterious figure they dub "squashy hat." Undeterred by drought, sudden brushfires, and the continuing presence of Squashy Hat, the young prospectors persevere in their quest -- with surprising results. Full of the dangers and dark adventures of old mines and forgotten claims, Pigeon Post has an irresistible appeal to the persistent explorer in every child.
Download or read book Pigeon Post written by Peter Hawes and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious short story about a woman who decides to buy New Zealand Stuck in the dry desert of Single Tree Gully, Australia, in 1840, Mrs C Wentworth dreams of a place deluged with rain. An island to own, and rain. The pigeon post brings word from her husband that he has negotiated with some Maori chiefs to purchase the isle on which she has set her heart. However, politics intervene . . .
Download or read book Pigeon Post written by Dumitru Țepeneag and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A man, a writer, lives alone in a rather squalid Paris apartment. He is trying to write a novel, but he has nothing to say. He tries multiple beginnings, interspersed with one digression (but from what?) after another. In the hope of finding subject matter for his would-be realistic story, he then sends letters to three friends - Edmond, Edgar, and Edourd - with a list of questions about their lives, some rather personal inquiries, some bordering on the obscene. The responses are not very helpful, and even seem suspiciously untrue. Out of this melange of stops and starts, false information, questionable memories, pieces of this and that, an insanely comic novel starts to emerge." "Dumitru Tsepeneag takes us into a game of memory and storytelling, where the tenderness of the past clashes with the comedy of the present, and where fictional characters and actual friends mingle in the play of the imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Pigeon Post written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1936 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.; revised edition published in 1983"--Copyright page.
Download or read book Pigeon Post and Other Stories written by Gwen Smith and published by Oyez!Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six animal-theme stories of children encountering animals - what happens is chaos, love and even teamwork. A good read for primary-school children. "Sure enough the kitchen floor was tilted slightly. Susheila gasped and ran in to grab Cloud's cage and her schoolbag and scuttled after the others up towards the road. Looking back she could see that the trees and part of the road has slid down towards the river which was now pushing the loose earth and stones out of its way. their house has slipped down towards the rushing river. She clutched her mother's arm. - Excerpt from Pigeon Post, the first of six stories in this new book by Gwen Smith.
Download or read book Homing Pigeon Care and Training for Military Purposes February 1920 written by United States. Army. Signal Corps. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Pigeon Post to Wireless written by Henry Michael Collins and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Junior Munsey written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pigeon written by Barbara Allen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our frequent urban companion, cooing in the eaves of train stations or scavenging underfoot for breadcrumbs and discarded French fries, the pigeon has many detractors—and even some fans. Written out of love for and fascination with this humble yet important bird, Barbara Allen’s Pigeon explores its cultural significance, as well as its similarities to and differences from its close counterpart, the dove. While the dove is seen as a symbol of love, peace, and goodwill, the pigeon is commonly perceived as a filthy, ill-mannered flying rodent, a “rat with wings.” Readers will find in Pigeon an enticing exploration of the historical and contemporary bonds between humans and these two unique and closely related birds. For polluting statues and architecture, the pigeon has earned a bad reputation, but Barbara Allen offers several examples of the bird’s importance—as a source of food and fertilizer, a bearer of messages during times of war, a pollution monitor, and an aid to Charles Darwin in his pivotal research on evolutionary theory. Allen also comments on the literary love and celebration of pigeons and doves in the work of such writers and poets as Shakespeare, Dickens, Beatrix Potter, Proust, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Along the way, Allen corrects the many stereotypes about pigeons in the hope that the rich history of one of the oldest human-animal partnerships will be both admired and celebrated.
Download or read book Memoir on the Use of Homing Pigeons for Military Purposes written by William Edward Birkhimer and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Homing Pigeon written by Edgar Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Royal Mail written by James Wilson Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fancy Waterfowl written by Frank Finn and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paper Pigeon written by Isabella Burckhardt and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prompted collaborative journal designed to foster deeper connections. Features over 200 unique activities and questions across 3 different levels of emotional depth. This journal is designed to be completed both independently, passing the journal back and forth, and together, either in person or virtually.
Download or read book The Post Office and Its Story written by Edward Bennett and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal has been written about the General Post Office in newspapers and magazines, but the books on the subject are comparatively few. And these volumes are either exhaustive historical treatises, or more popularly written descriptions of Post Office life and work. However, these works carry us no farther than the eve of penny postage, while the other books were written too long ago to be a guide to the Post Office of today. It is within the last twenty years that the Department has made the most rapid strides in the extension of its activities. Thus, what the author is attempting to do is to tell the story of the Department, briefly in its early beginnings, more fully in its modern developments, and in such a way as to give the reader the impression that the Post Office is alive, that it is in close touch with the needs of the nation, and is in less danger of being strangled with red-tape methods than at any time of its existence.
Download or read book The Postal Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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