Download or read book The Great and Powerful Piasa Bird written by Emilee P. Bird and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, the true story of the Great and Powerful Piasa Bird, as told by someone who seems to possess first hand information. This book tells how the Piasa Birds first came to North America, and how and why they settled near Alton, Illinois. Learn how the St. Louis World's Fair, Boy Scout Camp Warren Levis and Southwestern High School all have close ties to this fierce predator. Learn the true story of the cold-blooded murder of a peaceful Piasa Bird by the evil Illini Chief Ouatoga. There are no less than seven (7) irrefutable, documented facts included in this 120-page volume. A soft-cover book measuring 6" X 9", it contains over 59 original illustrations, maps, and photographs, many never before published, including 16 pages in color.
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Download or read book A Guide to Sky Monsters written by T. S. Mart and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a dark shadow passes overhead, do you stop? Or do you run? Infamous sky monsters have haunted our imaginations for centuries. The Thunderbird, steeped in Native American folklore, supposedly controls evil by throwing lightning. The Jersey Devil is said to roam the Pine Barrens of South Jersey, terrorizing anyone who crosses its path. And the cryptic warnings of Mothman have worried residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, since the 1960s. In A Guide to Sky Monsters: Thunderbirds, the Jersey Devil, Mothman, and Other Flying Cryptids, authors T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre introduce 20 flying cryptids with legends that span the United States. With 70 hand-drawn illustrations, A Guide to Sky Monsters details our fascination with these creatures and describes both historical evidence found in the fossil record and the specifics of modern-day sightings. By studying the fact, fiction, and pop culture surrounding these notorious beasts, Mart and Cabre help us lean into the question, "What if?" A Guide to Sky Monsters, perfect for the believer and skeptic alike, addresses the wider truths about flying cryptids and leaves us all to wonder whether that breeze was the wind or a wing.
Download or read book Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Mississippi written by Wang Ping and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle. Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi is a book about how the impossible became possible--about things that happened in China and America to the people Wang Ping grew up with, met, and befriended along her journeys between these two distant rivers. This is also a story about water, alive with spirits and energy, giving birth to all sentient beings. We are water. The river runs through us. Those who live in harmony with water can ride the current of the universe--the secret of Tao, reaching all the way to the sea of miracles, one story, one droplet, and one wave at a time. A miracle is a state of mind, a way of living: how we face hardship, pain, and tragedies, how we transform them into fuels for our journey and transcend them into joy and hope. This is a book about how ordinary people perform miracles every day; how we are touched, touching, all the time, across oceans and continents, across time and space, through our stories.
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Download or read book Weird U S written by Mark Moran and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all 50 states, "Weird U.S." takes an unconventional look at the oddities, outcasts, and just plain strange things to see or do in America.
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