Swallow Journey


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These stories are a wonderful way for children to explore one of nature's most fascinating mysteries--the instinctive compulsion for animals to migrate over large distances. With poetic text and stunning illustrations, these tales evoke the majestic environments that each animal inhabits. Two tiny swallows, Skimmer and Sweet Claw, have flown over a long distance to raise their young brood in the exact same nest they built last year. Now it is time for them to leave the cold, autumnal winds of northern Europe and return to the warmth and plenty of South Africa.




A Single Swallow


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From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, writer and birdwatcher, it is the expedition of a lifetime. Along the way he discovers old empires and modern tribes, a witch-doctor's recipe for stewed swallow, explains how to travel without money or a passport, and describes a terrifying incident involving three Spanish soldiers and a tiny orange dog. By trains, motorbikes, canoes, one camel and three ships, Clare follows the swallows from reed beds in South Africa, where millions roost in February, to a barn in Wales, where a pair nest in May.




The Swallow


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From the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren and The Twelve Birds of Christmas. With around 700,000 breeding pairs, the swallow is one of the most familiar birds in Britain. Though we consider the swallow to be 'our' bird, we also share this beloved creature with millions of others across the globe. Whilst we see it on a daily basis for half the year, the swallow then flies south to Africa, living on only in our memory in the long, dark winter. In The Swallow Stephen Moss documents a year of observing the swallow close to home and in the field to shed light on the secret life of this extraordinary bird. We trace the swallow's life cycle and journey, including the epic 12,000-mile round trip it takes every year, to enable it to enjoy a life of almost eternal sunshine, and the key part the swallow plays in our traditional and popular culture. With beautiful illustrations throughout, this captivating year-in-the-life biography reveals the hidden secrets of this charismatic and beautiful bird. PRAISE FOR STEPHEN MOSS: 'A superb naturalist and writer' Chris Packham 'Inspired, friendly and blessed with apparently limitless knowledge' Peter Marren 'Moss has carved out an enviable niche as a chronicler of the natural world' Daily Mail




Fantastic Journey Along the Swallows Migratory Routes


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Swallows are widely spread across the five continents and their coming back in the skies, at the end of their annual migration route, marks the change of season in the collective imagination. In this coloring book, featuring drawings by Sara Muzio, an artist with a ten-year-long experience in graphic and design, you will follow a swallow's journey all over the world and discover different environments. This black-and-white bird will link all pages, while the various environments will be represented by animals and plants drawn in silhouette, figures that together will mark the boundaries of the region where the swallow will be traveling. Rich in precious details and elegant in style, these drawings can be coloured in pencil or marker pen according to your personal fantasy and taste, spending many free hours in a very relaxing and pleasant activity. To top it off, there is a game in the game: in every drawing you can find another animal hidden in the page. Your achievement through colours, being so unique and personal, can be proudly displayed and will represent an antidote to everyday stress. ILLUSTRATOR: Sara Muzio has over ten years of experience working in graphic design and illustration. In 2002, after earning a degree in Medical Illustration, she began working for small graphic design studios and in 2004 she became the scientific illustrator for Lumen Edizioni, where she completed a postgraduate course on publishing and advertising graphics. From 2005 to 2011, Sara worked as a freelance graphic designer for private clients as well as public entities and publishing houses. From 2011 to 2013, she was the graphic and packaging designer for Sambonet Paderno Industrie S.p.a. She currently works as a freelance graphic designer and as the Marketing Assistant for "La Salute nel Sale", a halotherapy centre with locations in Vercelli and Casale, Italy. In addition to the illustrations found in this book, she created those for 'Flower Fantasy' and 'Hidden in the Jungle' for White Star Publishers.




Swallow


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Swallow


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Introduces swallows, discussing their physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, food, hunting and migration habits, and predators.




Beastly Journeys


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A critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siècle literature.




Swallow


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An American half-dollar. A beaded crucifix. Tooth roots shaped like a tiny pair of pants. A padlock. Scads of peanut kernels and scores of safety pins. A metallic letter Z. A toy goat and tin steering wheel. A Perfect Attendance Pin. One of the most popular attractions in Philadelphia's world-famous Mtter Museum is the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection; a beguiling set of drawers filled with thousands of items that had been swallowed or inhaled, then extracted nonsurgically by a pioneering laryngologist using rigid instruments of his own design. How do people's mouths, lungs, and stomachs end up filled with inedible things, and what do they become once arranged in Jackson's aura-laden cabinet? What drove Dr. Chevalier Jackson's peculiar obsession not only with removing foreign bodies from people's upper torsos but also with saving and cataloging the items that he retrieved? Animating the space between interest and terror, curiosity and dread, award-winning author Mary Cappello explores what seems beyond understanding; the physiology of the human swallow, and the poignant and baffling psychology that compels people to ingest non-nutritive things. On a quest to restore the narratives that haunt Jackson's uncanny collection, she discovers that all things are secretly edible. Combining original research with a sympathetic and evocative sensibility, Cappello uncovers a history of racism and violence, of forced ingestion and hysteria, of class and poverty that left children to bank their family's last quarters in their mouths. Here, the seemingly disparate but equally marvelous worlds of the circus and the medical amphitheater meet in characters ranging from sword swallowers and women who lunched on hardware to the sensitive, bullied boy who grew up to be the father of endoscopy.




Swallow the Air


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In 2006, Tara June Winch's startling debut Swallow the Air was published to acclaim. Its poetic yet visceral style announced the arrival a fresh and exciting new talent. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates its important contribution to Australian literature. When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, but it is the people she meets, not the destinations, that teach her what it is to belong. Swallow the Air is an unforgettable story of living in a torn world and finding the thread to help sew it back together.




Journey Om


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Journey OM is a story of Peace and Freedom, an amazing recounting of one's woman's pilgrimage to link the constellation Pleiades and the National Historic Chief Joseph Trail to our current New Age enlightenment. The adventure revives the prophecy of Chief Joseph, leader of the Nez Perce, which began 132 years ago and remained unfinished until Shima, the author, realized her calling to fulfill Chief Joseph's destiny. What followed were equally incredible experiences confronting forces of darkness and celebrating miracles of light. The world as we know it is quickly ascending from the third dimension of reality... of strife, scarcity, and the illusion of separation to the fifth dimensional reality... of limitless abundance, vibrant health, and peaceful harmony.