Download or read book Bad Elephant Far Stream written by Samuel Jay Hawley and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of a circus elephant's journey through life" "Bad Elephant Far Stream" is an animal story for adults, a novel about the odyssey of a circus elephant, told from her own perspective, through her own eyes. Inspired by the true story of the circus elephant Topsy, it begins in the forests of Ceylon in the late 1860s with the capture of a baby elephant known to her own kind as Far Stream. She is taken to America and sent to the Adam Forepaugh Circus in Philadelphia. There, Far Stream embarks on a new life under the big top, appearing as "Topsy," part of Forepaugh's famed elephant dancing quadrille. She crisscrosses North America for thirty years with the circus, experiencing hardships, kidnapping, escapes and adventure. But when she comes to outweigh her keepers by a factor of forty-it's hard not to hurt somebody. It's hard not to be "bad." Praise for "Bad Elephant Far Stream" "Meticulously researched and well told...an important story...I urge people to read this book." (Stewart McFarlane, author of "Of Mice and Zen: Animal Encounters in the Life of a Wandering Buddhist") "Intriguing and haunting...Moving and thought-provoking ... an intense and emotional novel. A highly recommended read." ("Shalini's Book Reviews") "Well researched, well written and compelling...gripping, heart felt, and filled with compassion." ("Lynelle Clark Aspired Writer") "Far Stream captured my heart immediately...I enjoyed this book so much that I had to research the story further." ("The Writers Lounge") "This historically significant novel is one that will stick with me for a long while. It's a must read for those who enjoy this genre." ("Pure Jonel: Bibliographic Ramblings of a Bookworm") "I found myself having a hard time putting down the book as I wanted to find out what would happen next. Topsy's story was just that engrossing." ("If It Has Words")
Download or read book A Far Off Place written by Laurens Van der Post and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Nonnie and Francois, both on the brink of adulthood, a thousand-mile trip across Africa's Kalahari Desert becomes a pilgrimage of self-discovery.
Download or read book Niagara Falls All Over Again written by Elizabeth McCracken and published by Delta. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns graceful and knowing, funny and moving, Niagara Falls All Over Again is the latest masterwork by National Book Award finalist and author of The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken. Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passionate friendship over thirty years, weaving a powerful story of family and love, grief and loss. In it, McCracken introduces her most singular and affecting hero: Mose Sharp — son, brother, husband, father, friend ... and straight man to the fat guy in baggy pants who utterly transforms his life. To the paying public, Mose Sharp was the arch, colorless half of the comedy team Carter and Sharp. To his partner, he was charmed and charming, a confirmed bachelor who never failed at love and romance. To his father and sisters, Mose was a prodigal son. And in his own heart and soul, he would always be a boy who once had a chance to save a girl’s life — a girl who would be his first, and greatest, loss. Born into a Jewish family in small-town Iowa, the only boy among six sisters, Mose Sharp couldn’t leave home soon enough. By sixteen Mose had already joined the vaudeville circuit. But he knew one thing from the start: “I needed a partner,” he recalls. “I had always needed a partner.” Then, an ebullient, self-destructive comedian named Rocky Carter came crashing into his life — and a thirty-year partnership was born. But as the comedy team of Carter and Sharp thrived from the vaudeville backwaters to Broadway to Hollywood, a funny thing happened amid the laughter: It was Mose who had all the best lines offstage. Rocky would go through money, women, and wives in his restless search for love; Mose would settle down to a family life marked by fragile joy and wrenching tragedy. And soon, cracks were appearing in their complex relationship ... until one unforgivable act leads to another and a partnership begins to unravel. In a novel as daring as it is compassionate, Elizabeth McCracken introduces an indelibly drawn cast of characters — from Mose’s Iowa family to the vagabond friends, lovers, and competitors who share his dizzying journey — as she deftly explores the fragile structures that underlie love affairs and friendships, partnerships and families. An elegiac and uniquely American novel, Niagara Falls All Over Again is storytelling at its finest — and powerful proof that Elizabeth McCracken is one of the most dynamic and wholly original voices of her generation.
Download or read book Dindy and the Elephant written by Elizabeth Laird and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bored with her little brother Pog's childish games, Dindy decides that she's finally grown-up enough for a real adventure. While her mother is sleeping and the servants are busy, she takes Pog deep into the tea gardens, a place they are never supposed to go alone. Terrified by wild animals and snubbed by the local children, Dindy starts to realize how little she really knows about India, even though it's the only place she's ever called home. But little does she know her life is about to be turned upside down when her mother is taken ill and her father tells her they are leaving India, for good. Dindy and the Elephant by Elizabeth Laird is a wonderful portrait of a young British child coming to terms with leaving her beloved childhood home, while at the same time realizing that many of the things she has been raised to believe are wrong.
Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa written by Arthur H. Neumann and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1898 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an Account of Three Years' Ivory-Hunting Under Mount Kenia and Among the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains. Including a Trip to the North of Lake Rudolph
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book No Buses Running written by Cecil John Richards and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in some numbers.
Download or read book An Elephant Never Forgets written by Amelia Lionheart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOIN THE JEACs J Junior E Environmentalists A And C Conservationists in their third thrilling adventure! This time the JEACs Rohan, Amy, Nimal, Anu, Gina and Mich from India and Canada are heading to Sri Lanka for their summer holidays and will be based at the Alighasa Wildlife Conservation. They learn, upon arrival in Sri Lanka, that the Conservation is in the process of expanding, and that some of the animals, especially the elephants who tend to break out of the current section and destroy farmers crops will be relocated to the new area, which will have stronger barriers. Relocating elephants will be a novel experience for the JEACs and they look forward to it eagerly. However, when several incidents of sabotage occur at the Conservation, it becomes evident to the staff at Alighasa, as well as to the JEACs, that somebody is attempting to delay the relocation of the elephants. To make matters worse, elephants are being killed and their tusks stolen. The JEACs, assisted by Mahesika (a Sri Lankan girl), strive to uncover the plot and capture the crooks! Website: http://www.jeacs.com
Download or read book The Oriental Sporting Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Imjin War written by Samuel Hawley and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Korea's southern tip. His objective: to conquer Korea, then China, then the whole of Asia. The resulting seven years of fighting, known in Korea as "imjin waeran," the "Imjin invasion," after the year of the water dragon in which it began, dwarfed contemporary conflicts in Europe and was one of the most devastating wars to grip East Asia in the past thousand years. THE IMJIN WAR is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of this cataclysmic event, so little known in the West. It begins with the political and cultural background of Korea, Japan and China, explores the diplomatic impasse that led to the war, describes every major incident and battle from 1592 to 1598 and introduces a fascinating cast of characters along the way. There is Hideyoshi, hosting garden parties as his armies march toward Beijing; Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin, emerging from a prison cell to take on the Japanese navy with just thirteen ships; Chinese commander Zhao Chengxun, suffering defeat after promising to "scatter the Japanese to the four winds"; the courtesan Chu Non-gae, luring a samurai warrior into her arms and jumping into the Nam River with him locked in her embrace. One nation fighting to expand, another to survive. Shockwaves extending across China and beyond. THE IMJIN WAR is an epic tale of grand perspective and intimate detail of an upheaval that would shape East Asia for centuries to come.
Download or read book Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Far Call written by Gordon R. Dickson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jens Wylie would never leave Earth, but his heart was with the brave men and women of the first Mars Expedition, enchanted by the siren song of the stars. As U.S. Undersecretary of Space, he thought he could share some small part of that bold adventure. But as the mission progressed, Jens saw the sure signs of imminent disaster, a mission failure that could bring Earth's Space program to a halt. He knew that he must risk his future, and maybe even his life, to keep humanity on the road to the stars-the only question was whether he had the courage to do it.
Download or read book The Far Eastern review written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
