Author: Richard BachPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147679331X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
"Includes the rediscovered part four"--Cover.
Smeagull the Seagull
Author: Mark Seth LenderPublisher:
ISBN: 9781732192904
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Smeagull the Seagull comes to the house near the shore every day and knocks on the sliding glass door. He knocks when he¿s hungry, and the people who live there feed him. Smeagull rules the roost! Keeping him fed is an exhausting job, but when Smeagull disappears, it makes clear what an important family member Smeagull has become. There are few places on earth without seagulls, both on shore and inland, and every child will find Smeagull captivating and yet familiar. Smeagull the Seagull teaches young children that animals are precious and have needs and feelings and family, just like us.This is a true story. Smeagull is a wild herring gull who does indeed knock at Valerie and Mark¿s house every day where he is fed scraps from sustainable seafood.The book is illustrated in full color by the graphic designer, Valerie Elaine Pettis. The text is written in rhyme by Mark Seth Lender, a published author and producer for wildlife content at Living on Earth, which is nationally broadcast on Public Radio.
The Seagull Reader
Author: Joseph KellyPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393930924
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1859, Samuel Butler, a young Cantabrigian out of joint with his family, with the church, and with the times, left England to hew out his own path in New Zealand. At the end of just five years he returned, with a modest fortune in money and an immense fortune in ideas. For out of this self-imposed exile came Erewhon, one of the world's masterpieces of satire, which contained the germ of Butler's intellectual output for the next twenty years. The Cradle of Erewhon is an examination and interpretation of the special ways in which these few crucial years affected Butler's life and work, particularly Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited. It shows us Butler the sheep farmer, explorer, and mountain climber, as well as Butler the newcomer to "The Colonies," accepting--and accepted by--his intellectual peers in the unpioneerlike little city of Christchurch, sharpening and disciplining his mind through his controversial contributions to the Christchurch Press. But more importantly, the book suggests the depth to which New Zealand penetrated the man and reveals new facets of influence hitherto unnoticed in Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited. The Southern Alps ("Oh, Wonderful! Wonderful! so lonely and so solemn"), the perilous rivers and passes, the character and customs of the Maoris--all these blend to afford new insights into a complex book. Butler was not the first to create an imaginary world as asylum from the harsh realities of this one (Vergil did the same in the Eclogues), nor was he the first, even in his own time, to protest against the machine as the enslaver of man, but his became the clearest and the freshest voice. On the biographical side, The Cradle of Erewhon offers new evidence for reappraising the man who for so long has been a psychological and literary puzzle. Why, for instance, did he repudiate his first-born book, A First Year in Canterbury Settlement? And why, once safely away from the entanglements of London, did he voluntarily return to them? Answers to these and other Butlerian riddles are suggested in the engrossing account of the satirist's sojourn in the Antipodes.
The Sea-Gull
Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
'The Seagull' is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. It is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. The play dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev.
Seagull One
Author: Lily PrellezoPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813037417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
There was a time in Miami when it seemed impossible to go through a week without news coverage of the men, women and children escaping Cuba and being pulled off of makeshift rafts in the middle of the Florida Straits. One out of four did not survive the dangerous journey; the others barely hung on with little food and water. Most of the lucky ones were saved by a group of volunteers who called themselves Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR). Seagull One is the never-before-told story of the men and women representing nineteen nationalities who came together to fly in rickety Cessnas over the Florida Straits to search for rafters fleeing Communist Cuba. It is a fascinating account of how José Basulto, a Cuban exile and Bay of Pigs veteran, founded BTTR with the humanitarian mission of saving the lives of the desperate souls willing to brave the ocean in pursuit of freedom. The group’s tactics were sometimes controversial, including protests against both the Cuban and U.S. governments, yet the organization managed to save over 4,200 people they would seldom, if ever, meet. Seagull One also records the infiltration of two spies, one who was a double agent working for the FBI. Together these two volunteers collaborated with the Castro government in planning the shoot down over international waters of two unarmed Cessnas flying a humanitarian mission on February 24, 1996. The cold-blooded murder of four innocent men (three American citizens and one legal resident) led to significant changes in U.S.-Cuba relations. Over one hundred people were interviewed for Seagull One. Their stories come to life in this nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.
Author: Joseph Kelly
Author: Joseph KellyThe Message
Author: Lance RichardsonPublisher: American Family Publishing
ISBN: 9781889025049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The message: "Two life changing books in one! If a man were to die, and then return, what message might those from the world beyond send back to us?"--Cover
The Seagull's Cry
Author: Denise RobinsPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 144478160X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Tansy Trehearn was born and bred in the beautiful and little Cornish port of the village St. Ruthyn, where Martin Wyde was opening a small hotel, The Seagull's Cry. Tansy was falling in love with her employer Martin. She had never been so bewildered, she had met the one man she could ever love, and found that she had to fight her own sister in order to get him. And that was when she learned that the cry of the seagull was no more sad and tortured than the cry of her own heart. Because while Martin and Tansy's love softly flowered, several people were plotting to ruin their newfound happiness.
Patsy the Seagull's Return to Happiness Lake
Author: Patricia RichelPublisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1682898660
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Book Patsy and his friend, Harriet, were good seagull friends who loved living at the Jersey Shore. Patsy only had one leg but he could do anything that other birds could do. They also loved Happiness Lake in Pennsylvania. They were blown out there when they got caught up in hurricane winds a few years ago. It was strange for them but they met animals and birds they had never seen before, and began to see how beautiful a lake is with all of its differences. One day they decided to return to Happiness Lake to visit their friends. Mr. and Mrs. Duck remembered them and introduced them to their visiting relatives from Ohio, Lori and Steven. Immediately they began to make fun of Patsy with his missing leg. Read and see how Patsy and Harriet handled those mean ducks.
