Download or read book Gray Wolf Island written by Tracey Neithercott and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of "The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender" comes a compelling story of five friends in search of a legendary treasure. They'll face adventure, supernatural elements, and what it means to trust one's friends with the darkest of secrets.
Download or read book Gray Wolf Island written by Tracey Neithercott and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five friends. Five secrets. One chance to find the treasure of a lifetime. Ruby’s sister had one dying wish: that Ruby explore the infamous Gray Wolf Island and find its legendary treasure. But when you take from Gray Wolf Island, the island demands something in return. Along with an eclectic group of friends —each with a mysterious past — Ruby sets off on a dangerous journey. Together, the group must face their own demons and give their secrets to the island in order to reach their goal. For fans of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer comes a compelling thriller with shades of magical realism, romance, and the ultimate test of friendship. “The complex characters are perfectly matched to the moving, magical, mysterious plot. Combine this with hypnotically beautiful prose, and you have a perfect novel.” —April Genevieve Tucholke, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Wink Poppy Midnight
Download or read book Wolf Island written by L. David Mech and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures In the late 1940s, a small pack of wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a perfect “laboratory” for a long-term study of predators and prey. As the wolves hunted and killed the island’s moose, a young graduate student named Dave Mech began research that would unlock the mystery of one of nature’s most revered (and reviled) animals—and eventually became an internationally renowned and respected wolf expert. This is the story of those early years. Wolf Island recounts three extraordinary summers and winters Mech spent on the isolated outpost of Isle Royale National Park, tracking and observing wolves and moose on foot and by airplane—and upending the common misperception of wolves as destructive killers of insatiable appetite. Mech sets the scene with one of his most thrilling encounters: witnessing an aerial view of a spectacular hunt, then venturing by snowshoe (against the pilot’s warning) to photograph the pack of hungry wolves at their kill. Wolf Island owes as much to the spirit of adventure as to the impetus of scientific curiosity. Written with science and outdoor writer Greg Breining, who recorded hours of interviews with Mech and had access to his journals and field notes from those years, the book captures the immediacy of scientific fieldwork in all its triumphs and frustrations. It takes us back to the beginning of a classic environmental study that continues today, spanning nearly sixty years—research and experiences that would transform one of the most despised creatures on Earth into an icon of wilderness and ecological health.
Download or read book Wolf Island written by Nicholas Read and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story is really told by the big, bright pictures—which glow with the rhythms and beauties of this remote habitat...Enthralling fare for budding naturalists." —Kirkus Reviews The Great Bear Rainforest is a majestic place full of tall trees, huge bears and endless schools of salmon. Award-winning photographer and author Ian McAllister's luminous photographs illustrate the story of a lone wolf who swims to one of the small islands that dot the rainforest's coast. The island provides him with everything he needs—deer, salmon, fresh water—everything, that is, but a mate. When a female wolf arrives on the island's rocky shores, she and he start a family and introduce their pups to the island's bounty. Wolf Island is part of the My Great Bear Rainforest series, which includes The Seal Garden, A Bear's Life and A Whale's World.
Download or read book Wolf Island written by Celia Godkin and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a family of wolves is removed from the food chain on a small island, the impact on the island's ecology is felt by the other animals living there.
Download or read book Wolf Island Lit Link Gr 1 3 written by and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wolf Island written by E.P. Clark and published by Helia Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some wolves hunger for more than meat. When Urho Kivinieminen, unwilling Seumi tracker for the Rutsi army that has conquered his country, is sent to scout Wolf Island, he doesn’t have much choice. The Rutsi have captured his homeland, and now they want this deserted island as well. But as Urho discovers, the island isn’t so deserted as they’d thought. Its inhabitants just aren’t human. Once he finds the dark forces that hold the island in their power, Urho needs to escape and convince the Rutsi to leave as well. But they are determined to have its magic, whatever the cost. The island’s magic is stronger than they’d reckoned, though—and it has awakened against them. Set in a magical Finnish-inspired world, this epic fantasy novelette of approximately 12,000 words is a prequel to The Singing Shore trilogy, but can be enjoyed as a standalone.
Download or read book Gray Wolf Red Wolf written by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, fact-filled book on endangered gray and red wolves. "Amply illustrated with handsome photographs . . . It may never be possible to reconcile human greed with a harmonious natural ecology, but the respectful account of endangered wolves suggests that the effort is eminently worthwhile".--The Horn Book. Full-color photos.
Download or read book How to Escape from a Leper Colony written by Tiphanie Yanique and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen. The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real. Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Condé before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.
Download or read book What If There Were No Gray Wolves written by Suzanne Slade and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the temperate forest ecosystem and the role of the gray wolf in helping to maintain it, describing the wolf's place on the food chain and what would happen to the temperate forest if the gray wolf were to become extinct.
Download or read book Takaya written by Cheryl Alexander and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting and evocative look at the unique relationship between a solitary, island-dwelling wolf and a renowned wildlife photographer. A lone wild wolf lives on a small group of uninhabited islands in British Columbia's Salish Sea, surrounded by freighter, oil tanker and other boat traffic and in close proximity to a large urban area. His name is Takaya, which is the Coast Salish First Nations people's word for wolf. Cheryl Alexander studied and documented this unique wolf for years, unravelling the many mysteries surrounding his life. Her documentation of Takaya's journey, his life on the islands and the development of their deep connection is presented alongside a stunning collection of her photography. Through journal entries, interviews, and a stunning collection of photography, Takaya: Lone Wolf addresses a number of profound questions and tells a story that is certain to inspire, enlighten, and touch the heart. It is the story of a wild animal, alone yet at peace.
Download or read book A Bear s Life written by Ian McAllister and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are so many things for bear cubs to learn about in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Download or read book Dark Lies the Island written by Kevin Barry and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'.
Download or read book Blood Rites written by Jim Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, Chicago's only professional wizard takes on a case for a vampire and becomes the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders. Harry Dresden has had worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Like fleeing a burning building full of enraged demon-monkeys, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there’s something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film’s producer believes he’s the target of a sinister curse—but it’s the women around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways. Harry’s doubly frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas—his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can’t quite figure out, until his investigation leads him straight to the vampire’s oversexed, bite-happy family. Now, Harry’s about to discover that Thomas’ family tree has been hiding a shocking secret: a revelation that will change Harry’s life forever.
Download or read book The Wolves of Isle Royale written by Rolf Olin Peterson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic: the compelling firsthand account of an ancient predator-prey relationship---the Isle Royale wolf and moose dynamic
Download or read book The Lost Wolves of Japan written by Brett L. Walker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan and tracks changing attitudes toward nature through Japan's long history. Grain farmers once worshiped wolves at shrines and left food offerings near their dens, beseeching the elusive canine to protect their crops from the sharp hooves and voracious appetites of wild boars and deer. Talismans and charms adorned with images of wolves protected against fire, disease, and other calamities and brought fertility to agrarian communities and to couples hoping to have children. The Ainu people believed that they were born from the union of a wolflike creature and a goddess. In the eighteenth century, wolves were seen as rabid man-killers in many parts of Japan. Highly ritualized wolf hunts were instigated to cleanse the landscape of what many considered as demons. By the nineteenth century, however, the destruction of wolves had become decidedly unceremonious, as seen on the island of Hokkaido. Through poisoning, hired hunters, and a bounty system, one of the archipelago's largest carnivores was systematically erased. The story of wolf extinction exposes the underside of Japan's modernization. Certain wolf scientists still camp out in Japan to listen for any trace of the elusive canines. The quiet they experience reminds us of the profound silence that awaits all humanity when, as the Japanese priest Kenko taught almost seven centuries ago, we "look on fellow sentient creatures without feeling compassion."
Download or read book Once a Wolf written by Stephen R. Swinburne and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the long and troubled relationship between humans and wolves--from persecution to preservation. Full-color photos.
