Download or read book Stalking Ivory written by Suzanne Arruda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a photography assignment in the northern territory of Mount Marsabit, American adventuress Jade del Cameron and her friends hope to film the area's colossal elephants. Instead, they discover the mutilated remains of four elephants and a man. Although the authorities suspect Abyssinian poachers and raiders in search of ivory and slaves, Jade has her own suspicions. Could it have been Harry Hascombe, her nemesis and unremitting suitor? Soon the Kikuyu boy accompanying her is captured by slave traders. Ultimately, it will take all of Jade's mettle to rescue her guide from slave traders, protect the animals, and expose another kind of beast.
Download or read book Stalking Ivory written by Suzanne Arruda and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a photography assignment in the northern territory of Mount Marsabit, Jade hopes to film the area's colossal elephants. Instead, she discovers the mutilated remains of four elephants and a man. Although the authorities suspect Abyssinian poachers in search of ivory and slaves, Jade has her own suspicions. Could it have been Harry Hascombe, her nemesis and unremitting suitor? When the Kikuyu boy accompanying her is captured by slave traders, she must join forces with the handsome Sam Featherstone to rescue her guide, protect the animals, and expose one shocking conspiracy...
Download or read book Become an Expert Deer Stalker With Chapters on Deer Stalking Tactics Weapons of Choice Ammunition Deer Facts Shooting Facts and How to Sight Ri written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deer stalking and still hunting are two skills that in can take a life time to master but with this informative guide you can take your first steps to becoming a skilled marksmen. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Download or read book Stalking Ivory written by Suzanne Middendorf Arruda and published by Charnwood. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a photography assignment in the northern territory of Mount Marsabit, Jade hopes to film the area's colossal elephants. Instead, she discovers the mutilated remains of four elephants and a man. Although the authorities suspect Abyssinian poachers in search of ivory and slaves, Jade has her own suspicions.
Download or read book Stalking the Ghost Bird written by Michael K. Steinberg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a kayaker thought he spotted an ivory-billed woodpecker in 2004, the birding community took notice. Two birders traveled to the bayou where the sighting occurred, well aware that the last confirmed sighting of an ivory-bill had taken place over sixty years ago. Both men caught a glimpse of the bird, and a team began to search the surrounding swamplands. Even after long hours of surveillance and multiple sightings, the scientists cautiously refused to disclose their rediscovery of the extinct bird until they captured it on film. At last, armed with a short video and sound clip, they published their findings in Science, triggering a frenzy of media coverage and sparking a controversy among birders and scientists who continue to disagree about whether the bird really still exists. In Stalking the Ghost Bird, Michael K. Steinberg engages the lengthy debate over the ivory-bill's status by examining the reported sightings and extensive efforts to find the rare bird in Louisiana. Louisiana has long been at the center of the ivory-bill's story. John James Audubon wrote about the bird and its habitat during his stay in St. Francisville, and scientists James Tanner and George Lowery studied the ivory-bill in Louisiana in the 1930s and 1940s. More recently, bird experts have conducted targeted searches in Louisiana. Steinberg discusses these and other scientific expeditions, and he catalogs reported ivory-bill sightings since the 1950s, using a detailed timeline that includes both dates and specific locations. Interviews with conservation officials, ornithologists, and native Louisianans illuminate the ongoing controversy and explore why the ivory-bill, more than any other bird, arouses so much attention. Steinberg meets elderly residents of the Atchafalaya Basin who saw the ivory-bill while hunting in the 1930s and even ate the bird-which they called the "forest turkey"-during hard times. He paddles into Two O'Clock Bayou with one wildlife professor and travels to a cypress-filled wildlife refuge with the director of Louisiana's Nature Conservancy. His interviews illustrate how expert opinions vary, as well as how much local non-experts know. Steinberg also explores in detail the human impact on both the ivory-bill and its bottomland forest habitat, explains how forest-management practices in the South may pose problems for an ivory-bill recovery, and outlines where future searches for the bird should take place. In this absorbing study, Steinberg turns his lifelong interest in the majestic ivory-billed woodpecker into a tale that encapsulates both the mystery and intrigue surrounding the legendary bird and our fascination with it.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Download or read book Stalking Ivory written by Suzanne Middendorf Arruda and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a photographic assignment in the northern territory of Mount Marsabit, Jade del Cameron and her friends, Beverly and Avery Dunbury, stumble upon the mutilated remains of a man and four elephants as well as a cache of hidden rifles.
Download or read book The Impossible Knife of Memory written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing look at the effects of post traumatic stress on soldiers and their families, seen through the eyes of teenage Hayley. Hayley is struggling to forget the past. But some memories run too deep, and soon the cracks start to show. Stunning, hard-hitting fiction from an award-winning writer.
Download or read book The Leopard s Prey written by Suzanne Middendorf Arruda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heading home to British East Africa to assist in the collection of wild animals for American zoos, Jade del Cameron finds her task complicated by the murder of a merchant whose body turns up on a local coffee plantation, especially when authorities make her beau, filmmaker and former World War I ace Sam Featherstone, the prime suspect in the killing.
Download or read book The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane written by Kathleen Kaska and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people know a little bit about efforts to save the whooping crane, thanks to the movie Fly Away Home and annual news stories about ultralight planes leading migratory flocks. But few realize that in the spring of 1941, the population of these magnificent birds--pure white with black wingtips, standing five feet tall with a seven-foot wingspan--had reached an all-time low of fifteen. Written off as a species destined for extinction, the whooping crane has made a slow but unbelievable comeback over the last seven decades. This recovery would have been impossible if not for the efforts of Robert Porter Allen, an ornithologist with the National Audubon Society, whose courageous eight-year crusade to find the only remaining whooping crane nesting site in North America garnered nationwide media coverage. His search and his impassioned lectures about overdevelopment, habitat loss, and unregulated hunting triggered a media blitz that had thousands of citizens on the lookout for the birds during their migratory trips. Allen's tireless efforts changed the course of U.S. environmental history and helped lead to the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Though few people remember him today, his life reads like an Indiana Jones story, full of danger and adventure, failure and success. His amazing story deserves to be told.
Download or read book The Crocodile s Last Embrace written by Suzanne Arruda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now appearing in trade paperback original format: "One of the most appealing heroines to appear in the pages on a mystery" (Library Journal). Returning from Europe, intrepid explorer Jade del Cameron arrives in Kenya with bittersweet memories-and the certainty that Africa is her home and Sam Featherstone the man she wants to share her life with. When a letter arrives from America, Jade hopes it's Sam sending word of his return. Instead, it's a message written in the hand of her long- dead fiancé, asking "Why did you let me die?" When two men die under mysterious circumstances and Jade discovers that her old nemesis, Lilith Worthy, has escaped from prison, the deaths and the letter form the most dangerous case Jade has ever faced, pitting her against a ferocious crocodile-and an even more deadly human killer.
Download or read book Mark of the Lion written by Suzanne Arruda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After driving an ambulance along the front lines of World War I, she can fire a rifle with deadly precision. Still suffering trauma from the Great War, she sets off for Africa determined to fulfill a man's dying wish...never expecting to become involved in murder. Rich with romance, mystery, and adventure, Mark of the Lion introduces a fascinating new heroine and explores the elusive heart of a compelling and exotic world.
Download or read book The Serpent s Daughter written by Suzanne Arruda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a ?rollicking tale of adventure and suspense?(Library Journal) through 1920s Morocco?third in the acclaimed series, now in paperback. Joining her mother for a holiday in the ancient port city of Tangier, American adventuress Jade del Cameron expects their trip will be far less dangerous than her safaris in East Africa. But soon after their introduction to a group of European tourists, Doña del Cameron goes missing?victim of an apparent kidnapping?and, shockingly, the French authorities seek to arrest Jade for the murder of a man whose body she discovered in a series of ancient tunnels. Now, Jade must call upon her friends to help find her mother and expose the true villains, who have every intention of bringing about her own destruction.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Works of Art and Curiosities at Normanhurst Court Battle written by Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
