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Author: Richard Bach
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1970-09
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 0684846845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Allegory about a sea gull who seeks to attain perfect flight. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Steven Wickstrom
Publisher: Steven P. Wickstrom
Published: 2004-04
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 1413718906
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Meet Dusty-a recently hatched seagull. He has a fear of heights and as a result, Dusty is afraid to fly. The inability to fly embarrasses him. Even though he is afraid, Dusty is willing to trust his friends and face his fears. He doesn't seek adventure, but adventure seems to follow him as he finds himself in some rather unusual situations. A bird's first reaction to any problem is to fly away. But because he can't fly, Dusty is forced to face obstacles that shape his character in ways that make him unique. He would rid himself of his fear of heights if he could, but he doesn't know how to do it. He must learn to trust and depend upon friends and learn the value of friendship.
Author: Edwin Page
Publisher: Janus Book Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781857567151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The beast approaches by night, his eyes filled with desire. Arriving in the year 1274, he hopes to escape the cruel life he has known. A poignant friendship develops with one of the monks, but others fear his horrifying presence, a fear which threatens the fragile peace he has found.
Author: Adam Nicolson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1250134196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land." A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this book, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory. Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and NYT best-selling author Adam Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: for their mastery of wind and ocean, their aerial beauty and the unmatched wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer they return to breed. The seabird’s cry comes from an elemental layer in the story of the world. Over the last couple of decades, modern science has begun to understand their epic voyages, their astonishing abilities to navigate for tens of thousands of miles on featureless seas, their ability to smell their way towards fish and home. Only the poets in the past would have thought of seabirds as creatures riding the ripples and currents of the entire planet, but that is what the scientists are seeing now today.
Author: Edwin Page
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-09-15
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781492310686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A shadowy figure approaches by night, the glimmer of hope in his eyes. The Mount stands dark in the bay and its residents will be forever changed by his arrival. Secrets whisper in the folds of his cloak as his heavy steps sink deep into the sands of time. Set in western Cornwall, Where Seagulls Fly is a widely acclaimed and evocative story about a social outcast seeking refuge with the monks of St Michael's Mount. Arriving in the year 1274, he hopes to escape the cruel life he has known. A poignant friendship develops with one of the monks, but others fear his horrifying presence, a fear which threatens the fragile peace he has found. This 2013 edition of the novel includes a short section about the writing of Where Seagulls Fly. If you enjoy this touching tale then try one of the numerous other novels and novellas written by Edwin Page, including The Magical Isles Trilogy set on the Isles of Scilly, which begins with the book White Sands.
Author: Peter Harrison
Publisher:
Published: 1991-09-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780395602911
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the definitive book on the seabirds of the world, describing virtually all the known species. Illustrated in color.
Author: Tristan Gooley
Publisher: The Experiment
Published: 2012-06-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1615191550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.
Author: Roxanne Schinas
Publisher: Imperator Publishing
Published: 2008-12-31
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 0956072208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Roxanne Schinas has always had a passion for wildlife. Long before she was old enough to read of Gerald Durrell's adventures she was emulating them, with pets ranging from rabbits and half-tame hedgehogs to toads, sticklebacks, locusts, and a crayfish. In the spring of 2008, while her family were cruising in southern Spain, Roxanne decided to make a survey of the seagull colony on an uninhabited island. The project began with a hand-drawn map on which the nests were plotted. Phase two was to have consisted in the study of the young birds growing up on the island, but when a local nature warden told her that most of the chicks would die, Roxanne found that she had a perfect excuse for "rescuing" two and bringing them home. Mother was not impressed... but the deed was done, and now the young naturalist had the opportunity to study, intimately, the development of Larus Cachinanns, the yellow-legged gull. Two Gulls and a Girl is Roxanne's record of events in the seagull colony and amongst her two hand-reared birds. Contains 92 black-and-white photos and illustrations. Foreword by Richard Williamson.
Author: Luis Sepúlveda
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780439401876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teaches the chick to fly.
Author: Luis Sepúlveda
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781846884009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Cat, A Seagull, An Impossible Task...Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay her final egg and lands on a balcony, where she meets Zorba, a big black cat from the port of Hamburg. The cat promises the seagull to look after the egg, not to eat the chick once it's hatched and - most difficult of all - to teach the baby gull to fly. Will Zorba and his feline friends honour the promise and give Lucky, the adopted little seagull, the strength to discover her true nature?
