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Book On the Backs of Burros

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. David Smith
  • Publisher : Western Reflections Publishing Company
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9781932738940
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book On the Backs of Burros written by P. David Smith and published by Western Reflections Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Grand Canyon Burros That Broke

Download or read book The Grand Canyon Burros That Broke written by Steven Brezenoff and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egg finds out that the Grand Canyon is a perfect place for a mystery.

Book Journey with a Baja Burro

Download or read book Journey with a Baja Burro written by Graham Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining account of the author's experiences walking with a burro 1,000 miles from the U.S. border to Loreto, Baja California. Mackintosh and his burro traversed scorching desert and frigid pine-covered mountains to visit mission sites along the way.

Book The Burro

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Brookshier
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2001-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780806133386
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Burro written by Frank Brookshier and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The donkey, the onager, the koulan-the burro. All are names for one of the world’s most used and abused beasts of burden. If the horse was the animal of conquest, it was the lowly burro who made it possible for civilization to spread to the far reaches of the earth. Burros brought wood to the fires, raised water from the wells, toiled in the fields, carried the great and the poor, followed the conquistadors to the New World, and packed for the prospector and miner. Recommended by Cleveland Amory, renowned animal welfare advocate and founder of the Black Beauty Ranch, this book is an eloquent and appealing account of the burro’s past and present. It includes a chapter on the selection, feeding, and care of pet burros.

Book Running with Sherman

Download or read book Running with Sherman written by Christopher McDougall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America, and, in the process, discovering the life-changing power of the human-animal connection. "A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor." —John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog When Christopher McDougall decided to adopt a donkey in dire straits, he had no idea what he was getting himself into. But with the help of his neighbors, Chris came up with a crazy idea. Burro racing, a unique type of competition in which humans and donkeys run side by side over mountains and through streams, would be exactly the challenge Sherman and Chris needed. In the course of Sherman’s training, Chris would enlist Amish running clubs, high-spirited goats, the service animal community, and two Sarah Palin–loving long-distance female truckers. Sherman’s heartwarming story of overcoming all odds to run one of the most unbelievable races in America shows the healing power of movement and the strength of the human-animal connection. Look for Christopher McDougall's new book, Born to Run 2, coming in December!

Book Waiting for the Biblioburro

Download or read book Waiting for the Biblioburro written by Monica Brown and published by Tricycle Press. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ana loves stories. She often makes them up to help her little brother fall asleep. But in her small village there are only a few books and she has read them all. One morning, Ana wakes up to the clip-clop of hooves, and there before her, is the most wonderful sight: a traveling library resting on the backs of two burros‑all the books a little girl could dream of, with enough stories to encourage her to create one of her own. Inspired by the heroic efforts of real-life librarian Luis Soriano, award-winning picture book creators Monica Brown and John Parra introduce readers to the mobile library that journeys over mountains and through valleys to bring literacy and culture to rural Colombia, and to the children who wait for the BiblioBurro. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book was donated to Luis Soriano's BiblioBurro program.

Book Peque  a the Burro

Download or read book Peque a the Burro written by Jami Parkison and published by RSM Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her feeling that she is only a burro, Pequeña is able to live up to the noble heritage of her ancestors who helped to build Mexico.

Book Bostonian  an Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Bostonian an Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by Arthur Wellington Brayley and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lizards on the Mantel  Burros at the Door

Download or read book Lizards on the Mantel Burros at the Door written by Etta Koch and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm, witty memoir of a young family’s rugged adventure living in the newly established Big Bend National Park in the 1940s. A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a twenty-three-foot travel trailer in tow—which they named Porky, the Road Hog—she anticipated a brief, civilized camping trip between her old home in Ohio and a new one in Arizona. It was only when she found herself moving into an old rock house without plumbing or electricity in the new Big Bend National Park that Etta realized she’d left her sheltered life behind for an experience in frontier living. In this book based on her journals and letters, Etta Koch and her daughter June Cooper Price chronicle their family’s first years—1944–1946—in the Big Bend. Etta describes how her photographer husband Peter Koch became captivated by the region as a place for natural history filmmaking—and how she and their three young daughters slowly adapted to a pioneer lifestyle during his months-long absences on the photo-lecture circuit. In vivid, often humorous anecdotes, she describes making the rock house into a home, getting to know the Park Service personnel and other neighbors, coping with the local wildlife, and, most of all, learning to love the rugged landscape and the hardy individuals who call it home.

Book Biblioburro

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeanette Winter
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-06-28
  • ISBN : 1442440732
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Biblioburro written by Jeanette Winter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man, his burros, and his books bring joy to children in remote Colombian villages in this inspiring book based on a true story by celebrated picture book creator Jeanette Winter. Luis loves to read, but soon his house in Colombia is so full of books there’s barely room for the family. What to do? Then he comes up with the perfect solution—a traveling library! He buys two donkeys—Alfa and Beto—and travels with them throughout the land, bringing books and reading to the children in faraway villages. Complete with an author’s note about the real man on whom this story is based.

Book Burro Genius

Download or read book Burro Genius written by Victor Villasenor and published by HarperCollins+ORM. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing at the podium, Victor Villaseñor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He became enraged. With a pounding heart, he began to speak of these incidents. When he was through, to his great disbelief he received a standing ovation. Many in the audience could not contain their own tears. So begins the passionate, touching memoir of Victor Villaseñor. Highly gifted and imaginative as a child, Villaseñor coped with an untreated learning disability (he was finally diagnosed, at the age of forty-four, with extreme dyslexia) and the frustration of growing up Latino in an English-only American school in the 1940s. Despite teachers who beat him because he could not speak English, Villaseñor clung to his dream of one day becoming a writer. He is now considered one of the premier writers of our time.

Book Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program

Download or read book Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States, concluding that constructive changes could be implemented. The Wild Horse and Burro Program has not used scientifically rigorous methods to estimate the population sizes of horses and burros, to model the effects of management actions on the animals, or to assess the availability and use of forage on rangelands. Evidence suggests that horse populations are growing by 15 to 20 percent each year, a level that is unsustainable for maintaining healthy horse populations as well as healthy ecosystems. Promising fertility-control methods are available to help limit this population growth, however. In addition, science-based methods exist for improving population estimates, predicting the effects of management practices in order to maintain genetically diverse, healthy populations, and estimating the productivity of rangelands. Greater transparency in how science-based methods are used to inform management decisions may help increase public confidence in the Wild Horse and Burro Program.

Book Packing with Burros

Download or read book Packing with Burros written by Dave Daney and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World s Toughest Races

Download or read book World s Toughest Races written by Ali Clarke and published by Summersdale Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do fierljeppen, running 156 miles in the Sahara desert and coal-carrying all have in common? They're just some of the wackiest, toughest and most extreme manpower races and challenges dreamed up by the human race. This fact-packed miscellany is bursting with all the details, statistics and anecdotes of the world's most unusual competitions (ever heard of bog snorkelling?) and intense endurance contests. Whether you're an armchair thrill seeker or you're wild enough to have an adventure or two under your belt, this book will entertain and inspire.

Book Little Burro

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Arnosky
  • Publisher : G. P. Putnam's Sons
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9780399255199
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Little Burro written by Jim Arnosky and published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Little Burro's band of burros leaves her canyon, Little Burro does not want to follow, but she soon finds out that visiting new places can be fun. Full color.

Book Travelers  Tales  American Southwest

Download or read book Travelers Tales American Southwest written by Sean O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its vast vistas, splendid sunsets, and rich history, the American Southwest has always inspired superb writing. "Travelers' Tales Southwest" features a choice selection of some of the best by Tony Hillerman, David Roberts, Barbara Kingsolver, Alex Schoumatoff, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, and others. Maps.

Book Call of the Burro

Download or read book Call of the Burro written by P. J. Day and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, P. J. Day and his two brothers and two sisters grew up in the magical valley of Tesuque (Tazookey), located about five miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. One of the family pets was a little gray burro they had named Pedro, who was less than a year old when he came to live with them. While reminiscing about that marvelous childhood Christmas Day 2001, P.J. wrote a short poem for his daughter, placing Pedro smack dab in the middle of the very first Christmas. A Burro’s Tale evolved from that poem and Call of the Burro is the continuation of that story. The setting for Call of the Burro is also the Tesuque Valley, and in addition to most of the original burros from the first story, there are now three new little baby burro’s and one additional new adult burro. Call of the Burro takes place 12 years after the original story. The three mischievous little youngsters in Call of the Burro narrowly escape a life and death situation with the help of an unexpected hero. As in A Burro’s Tale, Call of the Burro is filled with many life lessons for teenagers and young adults and throughout the story, when tested, it’s about doing the right thing. Woven within the story is yet another occasion in which Pedro must find the courage to do the right thing and to once again come to the aid of the Holy Family in their time of need.