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Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the postcards stop coming she worries that he will never make it home.
Author : Suzanne Collins
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545425162
Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the postcards stop coming she worries that he will never make it home.
Author : William Temple Hornaday
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Page : 640 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : William Temple Hornaday
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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1885
Category : East Indies
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780744548938
In this traditional English nursery rhyme, a young boy imagines the sounds made by various animals in the jungle.
Author : Stefan Bechtel
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 080700636X
He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the world. And he did. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937) was probably the most famous conservationist of the nineteenth century, second only to his great friend and ally Theodore Roosevelt. Hornaday's great passion was protecting wild things and wild places, and he spent most of his adult life in a state of war on their behalf, as a taxidermist and museum collector; as the founder and first director of the National Zoo in Washington, DC; as director of the Bronx Zoo for thirty years; and as the author of nearly two dozen books on conservation and wildlife. But in Mr. Hornaday's War, the long-overdue biography of Hornaday by journalist Stefan Bechtel, the grinding contradictions of Hornaday's life also become clear. Though he is credited with saving the American bison from extinction, he began his career as a rifleman and trophy hunter who led "the last buffalo hunt" into the Montana Territory. And what happened in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo, when Hornaday displayed an African man in a cage, shows a side of him that is as baffling as it is repellent. This gripping new book takes an honest look at a fascinating and enigmatic man.
Author : Gregory J. Dehler
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813934346
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of extinction. (Some are endangered to this day.) And yet these decades also saw the dawn of the conservationist movement. Into this contradictory era came William Temple Hornaday, a larger-than-life dynamo who almost uncannily embodies these conflicting threads in our history. In The Most Defiant Devil, a compelling new biography of this complex figure, Gregory Dehler explores the life of Hornaday the hunter, museum builder, zoologist, author, conservationist, and anti-Bolshevist crusader. A deeply religious man, he was nonetheless anything but peaceful and was racist even by his era’s standards, going so far as to display an Mbuti pygmy as a "living specimen" in a zoo. A passionate hunter, Hornaday killed thousands of animals, including some of the last wild buffalo in America, but he was far ahead of his time in his influential views on the protection of wildlife. Hornaday designed and built the New York Zoological Park (which became the Bronx Zoo) and was chief taxidermist for what would later become the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.In this single, fascinating individual, we can discern some of the Progressive Era's most destructive forces and some of its most enlightened visions.
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Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Baptists
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Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.
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Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Baptists
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 1966
Category : United States
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Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 1943
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