Author : Olivier Dunrea
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Animals
ISBN :
Animals present the numbers from one to ten, as earthworms, toads, ants, and others march and burrow, scurry and scooch deep down underground.
Author : Héctor Tobar
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Copper miners
ISBN : 9781473635104
August 2010: the San Jose mine in Chile collapses trapping 33 men half a mile underground for 69 days. Faced with the possibility of starvation and even death, the miners make a pact: if they survive, they will only share their story collectively, as 'the 33'. 1 billion people watch the international rescue mission. Somehow, all 33 men make it out alive, in one of the most daring and dramatic rescue efforts even seen.
Author : Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351523201
With the growth of interest in folklore, it becomes increasingly evident that the presentation of a collection needs some rationale more than the fact that traditional materials have been collected and properly annotated. Much has been gathered and is now accessible through journals, archives, and lists. If a corpus of lore is not presented in some way, which bears new light on the process of word-of-mouth transmission, on traditional forms or expressions, or on the group among whom the lore was encountered, there is little reason to present it to the public. This work represents an attempt to present a body of folklore collected among one small group of Black Americans in a neighborhood in South Philadelphia. The author's approach toward collection and presentation has been intensive. He has tried to collect "in depth," and to recreate in his presentation the social background in which the lore was found, and to relate the lore with the life and the values of the group. Abraham's work is a departure from any past methods of analyzing folklore, and therefore a description of the author's point of view and his method will be given first. The majority of this work was written before his methodology was actually formulated. However throughout the project û the object was to illuminate as fully as possible the lore of one small group of African Americans from urban Philadelphia. The methodology, which developed, did so because of this objective more than anything else. Though the formulation of this theory may seem ex post facto, it is included because it clarified much during the rewritings of this book, and more importantly, because it will clarify many matters for the lay reader and for the professional folklorist.
Author : Robert Crowther
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Caves
ISBN : 9780744549454
Pull the tabs, lift the flaps and delve into the world of deep down underground: of tunnels, caves, mines and sewers, of dinosaurs and diamonds, bats and bones, mummies and mechanical moles. The pop-ups in the book are accompanied by facts, feats and figures.
Author : Diane Ohanesian
Publisher : little bee books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781499806519
Follow along as animal families snuggle down deep for the wintertime in this rhythmic and charming picture book perfect for little ones while they snuggle down for hibernation. It's wintertime, a quiet time, no creatures left in sight. They're dreaming, snoozing, snoring through each morning, noon, and night.... As winter arrives and fluffly snowflakes begin to fall, animal families gather together to snuggle down deep against the cold. They prepare and cozy up their dens, nests, and underground tunnels. Then they curl up nose to nose, cheek to cheek, snuggle down deep, and sleep.
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
CHAPTER ONE. BEGINS THE STORY WITH A PECULIAR MEETING. CHAPTER TWO. SHOWS WHAT ASTONISHING RESULTS MAY FOLLOW FROM TAKING THE WRONG ROAD. CHAPTER THREE. INTRODUCES A FEW MORE CHARACTERS AND HOMELY INCIDENTS. CHAPTER FOUR. AT WORK UNDER THE SEA. CHAPTER FIVE. DESCRIBES A WRECK AND SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES. CHAPTER SIX. TREATS OF THE MINER'S COTTAGE, WORK, AND COSTUME. CHAPTER SEVEN. TELLS OF THE GREAT MINE AND OF A ROYAL DIVE UNDER THE SEA. CHAPTER EIGHT. DOWN, DOWN, DOWN. CHAPTER NINE. TREATS OF DIFFICULTIES TO BE OVERCOME. CHAPTER TEN. SHOWS HOW MAGGOT MADE A DESPERATE VENTURE, AND WHAT FLOWED FROM IT. CHAPTER ELEVEN. SHOWS THAT MUSIC HATH CHARMS, AND ALSO THAT IT SOMETIMES HAS DISADVANTAGES. CHAPTER TWELVE. IN WHICH OLIVER GETS "A FALL," AND SEES SOME OF THE SHADOWS OF THE MINER'S LIFE. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. TREATS OF SPIRITS AND OF SUNDRY SPIRITED MATTERS AND INCIDENTS. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. CONTINUES TO TREAT OF SPIRITS, AND SHOWS THE VALUE OF HOSPITALITY. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. INTRODUCES A STRANGER, DESCRIBES A PICNIC, AND REVEALS SOME SECRETS OF MINING. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. DESCRIBES "HOLING TO A HOUSE OF WATER" AND ITS TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. TOUCHES ON THE CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS: OLIVER IN A NEW LIGHT AND HIS UNCLE IN A SAD ONE. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. TELLS OF KING ARTHUR AND OTHER MORE OR LESS FABULOUS MATTERS. CHAPTER NINETEEN. SMALL TALK AND SOME ACCOUNT OF CORNISH FAIRIES. CHAPTER TWENTY. THE MINE IN THE SEA. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE. TREATS OF TIN-SMELTING AND OTHER MATTERS. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO. SHOWS HOW OLIVER AND HIS FRIEND WENT TO NEWLYN AND SAW THE MACKEREL MARKET, AND FOUND SOME DIFFICULTIES AND MYSTERIES AWAITING THEM THERE. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE. IN WHICH IS RECORDED A VISIT TO AN INFANT-SCHOOL; A WARNING TO A THANKLESS OLD GENTLEMAN; ALSO A STORM, AND A SUDDEN AS WELL AS SURPRISING END OF A MINE, BESIDES DARK DESIGNS. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR. EXHIBITS THE MANAGING DIRECTOR AND THE SECRETARY OF WHEAL DOOEM IN CONFIDENTIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, AND INTRODUCES THE SUBJECT OF "LOCALS." CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE. SHOWS THE MINER IN HIS SUNDAY GARB, AND ASTONISHES CLEAREMOUT, BESIDES RELATING SOME INCIDENTS OF AN ACCIDENT. CHAPTER TWENTY SIX. TELLS OF A DISCOVERY AND A DISASTER. CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN. INDICATES THAT "WE LITTLE KNOW WHAT GREAT THINGS FROM LITTLE THINGS MAY RISE." CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT. DESCRIBES SETTING-DAY AT THE MINE, ETCETERA. CHAPTER TWENTY NINE. DETAILS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A DEED OF HEROISM. CHAPTER THIRTY. REVEALS SOME ASTONISHING FACTS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. CHAPTER THIRTY ONE. DESCRIBES A MARRED PLOT, AND TELLS OF RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. CHAPTER THIRTY TWO. TOUCHES ON LOVE AND ON PILCHARD FISHING. CHAPTER THIRTY THREE. THE LAST.
Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393242153
National Bestseller • New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • NPR "Favorite Books of 2019" • Guardian "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award "Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times." —Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times Book Review In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come—Underland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Global in its geography and written with great lyricism, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.
Author : Joanne Schwartz
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1554988721
Winner of CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Winner of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers, show the striking contrast between a sparkling seaside day and the darkness underground where the miners dig. With curriculum connections to communities and the history of mining, this beautifully understated and haunting story brings a piece of Canadian history to life. The ever-present ocean and inevitable pattern of life in a Cape Breton mining town will enthrall children and move adult readers.
Author : Jonathan Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101513225
Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicles the harrowing account of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for fourteen weeks in the fall of 2010. A resident of Chile since 1994, award-winning investigative reporter Jonathan Franklin gained access to the miners, their families, rescuers, and government officials that other journalists could only dream of. He developed such a bond of trust with the miners that they described in great detail the dramatic first seventeen days of their confinement. Once the miners were rescued, Franklin interviewed virtually all of them—at their homes, at his house, on horseback, and at the beach. The result is 33 Men, the most authoritative book on the Chilean mine disaster. Written with the author’s renowned eye for detail, it captures the remarkable story of the miners who grasped the essence of the human spirit in order to survive their entrapment, and the men and women who literally moved a mountain to set them free.
Author : William K. Hartmann
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1999-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812580396
A search for a scientist who disappeared while exploring the Martian desert. He is Alwyn Stafford and as the search progresses it becomes clear he has discovered something which other people want kept hidden. A new alien civilization? A first novel by a Mars astronomer.
