Through Jungle and Desert
Author : William Astor Chanler
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : William Astor Chanler
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Henryk Sienkiewicz
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Children
ISBN :
Author : Howard Rice
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2005-01-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780743983563
This book takes a closer look at the main characteristics of a desert, how they're formed, and how plants and animals have adapted to their arid environment. Reads at a level of 2.5 with a word count of 558.
Author : T. J. Marsh
Publisher : Rising Moon Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2002-07
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780873588027
A counting book in rhyme presents various desert animals and their children, from a mother horned toad and her little toadie one to a mom tarantula and her little spiders ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration.
Author :
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1922417025
This interactive book is an illustrated game of hide and seek, where the reader must track down Sir David Attenborough on each page. Since 1954, Sir David Attenborough has been gracing our TV screens to educate and celebrate the animal and natural worlds. In those nearly 70 years of broadcasting and documentary making, Attenborough became a national treasure in the United Kingdom and attained near-mythical status the world over. We only need to hear a word or two uttered, before we recognize David Attenborough's iconic voice. But, in this brightly illustrated book, we'll have to find him by sight and by sheer willpower. On each page in this book, drawn by artist Maxim Usik, Attenborough is lying in wait. You'll have to find him as he dives into the ocean, wades through wetlands and hides in the long grasses of the savannah - all the time keeping a watchful eye out for some of our world's, most incredible - and endangered - wildlife. There's no better way to celebrate an international icon (and perhaps stop and think about conservation along the way).
Author : Charles Blackmore
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781845115821
The ferocious Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, one of the largest sandy deserts in the world and the harshest on earth, is known by the Chinese as the "desert of death" or the "place of no return." Its unknown depths are said to be haunted by demons and spirits and legend has it that ancient cities filled with treasure lie lost and buried beneath its dunes. The only certainty is that no human being in history had ever crossed it from end to end. But, after five years of planning, in 1993, Charles Blackmore together with a team of British, Chinese and Uyghurs and a caravan of thirty camels, set out to accomplish the seemingly impossible: they would cross the Taklamakan, west to east, directly through its unmapped, untrodden centre. Conquering the Desert of Death is at once a deeply personal journey and the story of an adventure that will go down in history as one of the great achievements of exploration.
Author : John Man
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China)
ISBN : 9780753801611
For 70 years, the Gobi, one of the worlds richest yet least explored wildernesses, was all but barred to outsiders by Mongolia's position as a buffer-state between Russia and China. With the collapse of communism, however, the Gobi is beginning to br revealed in all its glorious diversity. Travelling from west to east across the Gobi, John Man retraced the steps of the early explorers, livingwith herdsmen, and drawing on the most recent scientific work, This core of Central Asia's heartland is extraordinarily rich in wildlife and astonishing natural beauty.
Author : William Astor Chanler
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2016-07-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781535066549
Through Jungle and Desert, Travels in Eastern Africa by William Astor Chanler. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1896 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Author : Dana Fritz
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0826358748
In a new approach to environmental photography, Dana Fritz explores the world’s largest enclosed landscapes: Arizona’s Biosphere 2, Cornwall’s Eden Project, and Nebraska’s Lied Jungle and Desert Dome at the Henry Doorly Zoo. In these vivaria, plants are grown amid carefully constructed representations of the natural world to entertain and educate tourists while also supporting scientific research. Together, these architectural and engineering marvels stand as working symbols of our complex relationship with the environment. Giant terraria require human control of temperature, humidity, irrigation, insects, weeds, and other conditions to create otherwise impossible ecosystems. While technical demands inform the design of these spaces, the juxtapositions of natural and artificial elements generate striking visual paradoxes that can go unnoticed. Here Fritz turns away from visitors’ prepared sight lines, revealing alternate views that dispel the illusion of natural conditions. Inviting questions about what it means to create and contain landscapes, Terraria Gigantica inspires contemplation of our ecological future.
Author : Barbara Gowan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Arizona
ISBN : 9781585361625
An introduction, through numbers, to some of Arizona's animals, geography, history, and more.