The Bedside Book of Adventure
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Author : David Gentleman
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Page : 319 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Adventure and adventurers
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Author : Graeme Gibson
Publisher : Nan a Talese
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0385524595
A lavishly illustrated companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationships between predators and prey, drawing on mythology, nature writings, and other sources to provide coverage of both real and fictional creatures.
Author : Graeme Gibson
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
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ISBN : 9781526633675
Author : Various
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416938427
Young readers can join the Backyardigans as they search for buried treasure, blast off to outer space, and explore the Icy North in this collection of seven stories.
Author : Dr D G Hessayon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2011-07-08
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1446497046
The perfect bedside read from the world's best-loved, best-selling writer of the Expert gardening books. There are times when we simply wish to read about our hobby and not be badgered by advice. If you enjoy reading about plants whether or not you can grow them, or enjoy discovering gardens you may never visit and could never hope to match, or are keen to learn how people gardened in the past and what they have contributed to our gardens today, then this is the book for you. It includes sections on the great gardeners in history; extraordinary and surprising plants; remarkable gardens around the world; key gardening moments in history; the wildlife in our gardens; things for the plant lover to do indoors, and other 'this and that' trivia, statistics and fascinating things you never knew, all illustrated with charming line drawings. The Bedside Book of the Garden is a gardening book to be read at leisure, which will never tell you that you have to go outside, and which will not only make you a better gardener but will open your eyes to the magic of gardening.
Author : Theodore Harold White
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Historie
ISBN : 9780446971461
White recalls his own career at home and abroad over the past forty years, the famous men and women he has written about and known, and the triumphs and shortfalls of the American system.
Author : Alison Uttley
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 168137448X
The “superb” time travel adventure of one lonely young girl, a remarkable family, and an impossible task, set between modern and Elizabethan England (The Washington Post) "A beautiful book . . . a form of enchanting ghost story, with the ghosts drawn in with the grace of a painter on a fan." —The Observer Penelope Taberner Cameron is a solitary and a sickly child, a reader and a dreamer. Her mother, indeed, is of the opinion that the girl has grown all too attached to the products of her imagination and decides to send her away from London for a restorative dose of fresh country air. But staying at Thackers, in remote Derbyshire, Penelope is soon caught up in a new mystery, as she finds herself transported at unforeseeable intervals back and forth from modern to Elizabethan times. There she becomes part of a remarkable family that is, Penelope realizes, in terrible danger as they plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots, from the prison in which Queen Elizabeth has confined her. Penelope knows the tragic end that awaits the Scottish queen, but she can neither change the course of events nor persuade her new family of the hopelessness of their cause, which love, loyalty, and justice all compel them to embrace. Caught between present and past, Penelope is ever more torn by questions of freedom and fate. To travel in time, she discovers, is to be very much alone. And yet the slow recurrent rhythms of the natural world, beautifully captured by Alison Uttley, also speak of a greater ongoing life that transcends the passage of the years.
Author : Martyn Ford
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101936282
Fans of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library and The Mysterious Benedict Society will race through this exciting adventure about an orphan, his unusual friends, and the power of imagination. What if everything you imagined could become real? It all starts when Professor Eisenstone, scientist and inventor, creates a box that’s supposed to turn whatever you imagine into reality. There’s only one problem: he can’t get it to work. Until Tim shows up. An orphan with an especially keen imagination, Tim brings to life Phil, an eloquent finger monkey with a dry sense of humor. Tim and Professor Eisenstone work in secret to make the box more powerful. But when Eisenstone is kidnapped along with his contraption, Tim, Phil, and the professor’s granddaughter, Dee, must find the criminals before they use the box to turn their imagined evil into something all too real. Creating a miniature monkey is all well and good. But in order to rescue his friend, Tim will have to face his darkest fears and unleash the true potential of his own mind. “A splendid adventure, hilarious and harrowing in turn and so strongly cast that even the precocious pocket primate doesn't steal the show.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "With a solid mystery, fantastic device, warm friendships, a funny monkey, and heartening conclusion, this has a heaping serving of middle-grade antics."-Booklist “The Imagination Box is children’s fiction in the classic mode, with double-crosses, deceitful adults and narrow escapes all meshing into a solid mystery plot…and a timeless be-careful-what-you-wish-for message.”—Financial Times (UK)
Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0029351707
History of the human race from the point of view of mankind's changing ideas--sociological, cosmological, philosophica.