Download or read book Khorbahn The Wild Dogs of Africa and Their Life on the Serengeti Plain written by Gloria T. August and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild dogs of the Serengeti Plain are used as an allegory for the lives of the humans who film them in their natural habitat. Whether it is the lives of the humans or those of the animals you are hit in the gut by both. Backdrop of the Korean War and a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War 2 make you pause to consider the effect of animals on the lives of the humans. The animals have an important place in the desperate lives of the humans. The entire book is one wild ride.
Download or read book Inheritance of Stone Book 1 written by Gloria T. August and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First of two part history and travel book on Ludlow Massacre and the life of the Italian immigrants in Southeastern Colorado in the early 20th c. Story is filled with joy and terrible tragedy related to the life of the miners in Ludlow, Colorado. The author compares American immigration with that of South Africa. Biography of two friends of the author whose aunt lost all of her children in the Ludlow Massacre. The importance of immigrants in the history of the United States is the central theme of the the two books. How an immigrant becomes an American, the angst and redemption of immigration, is the story told in these two volumes. Having survived the Ludlow massacre, miners had to go back into the mines where over a 127 miners died three years later having survived the massacre. Many unanswered questions still linger over the Ludlow Massacre. The author tours the battlefield and the world of the miners of which all remnants of their lives have now disappeared.
Download or read book Africa s Wild Dogs written by Jocelin Kagan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are roughly 6,600 wild dogs left in Africa yet they have cast such a spell on top wildlife photographer and naturalist Jocelin Kagan that she is determined to help save them. If left to their own devices, they are more than capable of thriving, as this sumptuous photographic natural history shows. Jocelin has called in world experts to add their latest findings about these resourceful, graceful and highly skilled family groups. Nomadic predators whose territories range thousands of kilometres, they hunt co-operatively, preying on small herbivores. Non-confrontational, they form complex bonds as this book reveals. Now restricted to small populations and threatened by some shoot-to-kill policies, habitat fragmentation, diseases from domestic dogs, climate change and snares, as well as natural predation from hyenas and lions, Africa's wild dogs will be supported by all the royalties from this book.
Download or read book Savage Paradise written by Hugo van Lawick and published by William Morrow &Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains some of the best animal photographs ever published, illustrating the world of the African predators -- lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, and wild dogs. To accompany this unique collection, the author describes the animals pictured, as well as his life on the Serengeti. He blends entertaining anecdote, important new scientific material, and an almost miraculous understanding of the animals he studies. His sympathy for his subjects coupled with supreme technical ability give his photographs a unique quality and significance.
