Download or read book Where Leopards Cough written by Trevor Frost and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of life in Africa under extreme conditions where theres nothing to depend on other than your wits and an ability to improvise. A man, his dog Major, and a small group of helpers trucked across seemingly insurmountable mountainous terrain laden with drilling equipment and supplies to survive off the land in isolation for months. Extreme danger and excitementat times life-threateningabounds, coupled with the beauty of nature and her wildlife. The author provides his readers with a slice of colonial life in the 1960s, describing progress through childhood, enduring army training, discovering pleasures of the opposite sex, exploring career options, and finally settling into what became a long career in exploration diamond drilling. It is also a story of love. Shortly after the contract in Ruangwa Valley, the authors isolated and lonely life changed dramatically. He married a beautiful city girl who had never experienced camping, let alone the tough life in remote areas in the bush. Their two sons were born living under these conditions. The book ends as the young family leaves Zimbabwe, settling in Botswana. The sequel Scorched Sands of the Kalahari will tell the story of their adventures in that country.
Download or read book Drilling where Leopards Cough written by Trevor Frost and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drilling Where Leopards Cough written by Trevor Frost and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a true, historical account of growing up in the old Rhodesia during the 60's through school, girls, army to ultimately settling on a career of exploration diamond drilling.The events related, centre in an extremely remote and wild part of North Eastern Rhodesia called Ruangwa Valley. A wilderness area, barren of humans, the closest human contact being a four-and-a-half-hour drive over almost inaccessible dirt roads and dangerous mountain passes. Logistics were a nightmare with meat rations acquired through hunting game for the pot and catching fish from the rivers. It describes how they impacted on the land and its wild-life. It's a story of adventure and survival, of a white man and his dog, living in close connection with a team of black men, all living and working in and surviving off the wilderness under conditions that are now gone for ever.The book provides an interesting insight into the world of exploration diamond drilling, which invariably happens in wild, remote and tough conditions. There is extreme danger and excitement, coupled with the beauty of nature in Africa, and her wild life. There are unique experiences - some life threatening - with elephant, leopard, rhino, and snakes. There were also difficulties, hardships and dangers as they traversed mountain passes, with all the drilling equipment packed on the back of trucks not designed for those conditions. Soon after the contract in Ruangwa Valley was completed his isolated and lonely life changed dramatically when he married a city girl, raised in a comfortable home. She had never experienced camping, let alone the tough circumstances of living in remote areas in the bush. Their two sons were born whilst living under these conditions and raised in a caravan. One of these areas happened to be the Gwaai River Mine at the time of the tragic Wankie Coal Mine disaster where more than four hundred people lost their lives in a methane gas explosion. The book ends with the family leaving Rhodesia via South Africa to ultimately settling in Botswana. The sequel to this book will relate to the families interesting life experiences in Botswana.
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Download or read book The Complete Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog written by Don Abney and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Designed to provide brief information on the history, care, uses, and breeding of Louisiana Catahoula leopard dogs"--To the reader.
Download or read book Dreaming of Lions written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing other creatures and other cultures, from her own backyard to the African savannah. Her books have transported millions of readers into the hidden lives of animals—from dogs and cats to deer and lions. She’s chronicled the daily lives of African tribes, and even imagined the lives of prehistoric humans. She illuminates unknown worlds like no other. Now, she opens the doors to her own. Dreaming of Lions traces Thomas’s life from her earliest days, including when, as a young woman in the 1950s, she and her family packed up and left for the Kalahari Desert to study the Ju/Wa Bushmen. The world’s understanding of African tribal cultures has never been the same since. Nor has Thomas, as the experience taught her not only how to observe, but also how to navigate in male-dominated fields like anthropology and animal science and do what she cared about most: spending time with animals and people in wild places, and relishing the people and animals around her at home. Readers join Thomas as she returns to Africa, after college and marriage, with her two young children, ending up in the turmoil leading to Idi Amin’s bloody coup. She invites us into her family life, her writing, and her fascination with animals—from elephants in Namibia, to dogs in her kitchen, or cougars outside her New England farmhouse. She also recounts her personal struggles, writing about her own life with the same kind of fierce honesty that she applies to the world around her, and delivering a memoir that not only shares tremendous insights, but also provides tremendous inspiration. Dreaming of Lions, originally published in hardcover as A Million Years With You, is slightly updated and includes a powerful new afterword by the author.
Download or read book Tuberculosis Leprosy and Mycobacterial Diseases of Man and Animals written by Harshini Mukundan and published by CABI. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mycobacteria are bacterial pathogens which cause diseases in humans and non-human animals. This monograph will primarily cover the most important and widely researched groups of mycobacteria: members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) and Mycobacterium leprae, across a wide range of host species. M. tuberculosis and M. bovis are particularly relevant with the increasing drug resistance and co-infection with HIV associated with M. tuberculosis and the possible cross-infection of badgers and cattle associated with M. bovis. This book will provide a reference for researchers working in different fields creating a work which draws together information on different pathogens, and by considering the diseases in a zoonotic context provides a One Health approach to these important groups of diseases.
Download or read book The Horse Boy written by Rupert Isaacson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a crazy idea: why not take Rowan to Mongolia, the one place in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersected? The Horse Boy is the dramatic and heartwarming story of that impossible adventure. In Mongolia, the family found undreamed of landscapes and people, unbearable setbacks, and advances beyond their wildest dreams. This is a deeply moving, truly one-of-a-kind story -- of a family willing to go to the ends of the earth to help their son, and of a boy learning to connect with the world for the first time.
Download or read book In Ashanti Beyond written by Allan Wolsey Cardinall and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rediscovery of the Wild written by Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling case for connecting with the wild, for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature—a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity of connecting with wild nature—untamed, unmanaged, not encompassed, self-organizing, and unencumbered and unmediated by technological artifice. We can love the wild. We can fear it. We are strengthened and nurtured by it. As a species, we came of age in a natural world far wilder than today's, and much of the need for wildness still exists within us, body and mind. The Rediscovery of the Wild considers ways to engage with the wild, protect it, and recover it—for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species. The contributors offer a range of perspectives on the wild, discussing such topics as the evolutionary underpinnings of our need for the wild; the wild within, including the primal passions of sexuality and aggression; birding as a portal to wildness; children's fascination with wild animals; wildness and psychological healing; the shifting baseline of what we consider wild; and the true work of conservation.
Download or read book Robert Duncan written by Robert Duncan and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan’s books and magazine publications up to and including Letters: Poems 1953–1956. Deftly edited, it thoroughly documents the first phase of Duncan’s distinguished life in writing, making it possible to trace the poet’s development as he approaches the brilliant work of his middle period. This volume includes the celebrated works Medieval Scenes and The Venice Poem, all of Duncan’s long unavailable major ventures into drama, his extensive “imitations” of Gertrude Stein, and the remarkable poems written in Majorca as responses to a series of collaged paste-ups by Duncan’s life-long partner, the painter Jess. Books appear in chronological order of publication, with uncollected periodical and other publications arranged chronologically, following each book. The introduction includes a biographical commentary on Duncan’s early life and works, and clears an initial path through the textual complexities of his early writing. Notes offer brief commentaries on each book and on many of the poems. The volume to follow, The Collected Later Poetry and Plays, will include The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), Bending the Bow (1968), Ground Work (1984), and Ground Work II (1987).
Download or read book Hemingway s Nonfiction written by Robert O. Stephens and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews. In doing so, it throws a new, oblique light on what has usually been regarded as his major work--his short stories and novels. Originally published in 1968. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book Fodor s the Complete African Safari Planner written by and published by Fodor. This book was released on 2011 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia & Kenya."
Download or read book Skylark Coursebook 8 VRApp written by Mini Joseph & Hilda Peacock and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skylark is a multi-skill based series of coursebooks and workbooks for Classes 1-8. It caters to the needs of the learners and the facilitators of the English language through its approach—teaching language through literature. Through their simple, lucid and visually appealing presentation of content, the books make language acquisition effortless, seamless and engrossing for the learners.
Download or read book The English Marvel Coursebook 8 written by Brinda Dutta and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Marvel is a multiskill-based series in English that adheres to theNational Curriculum Framework and the advances made in ELT pedagogical principles. Having a learner-centred approach, the series develops essential communication skills and integrates the four language skills of Reading, Writing,Listening and Speaking.
Download or read book Singing Spears written by E. V. Thompson and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Retallick has grown to manhood during the years of flood tide in the chronicles of Africa. The son of Josh and Miriam Retallick, he settles with his wife and children on a homestead in a valley of Matabeleland. But the years are the 1880s, and the Matabele impis are advancing with their singing spears towards the deal-dealing Maxim guns of the white man. Daniel Retallick's loyalties, plans and dreams are about to be swept by fate into the whirlpool of history...
Download or read book Fever written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the exotic, sensual world of #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan’s Leopard people with this collection that brings together two stories for the first time in one volume... Journey to the Borneo rainforest in “The Awakening”—the novella that first introduced the Leopard people—where a beautiful naturalist’s dream to live among the feral jungle creatures comes true. But an untamed, irresistible beast of another sort forces Maggie to explore her own wild side... In the novel Wild Rain, Rachel Lospostros has escaped from a faceless assassin and found sanctuary thousands of miles from home, under the towering jungle canopy. In this world teeming with unusual creatures she encounters Rio, a native of the forest imbued with a fierce prowess, and possessed of secrets of his own. When Rio unleashes the secret animal instincts that course through his blood, Rachel must decide if he is something to be feared-or desired.
