Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Honeyguides
ISBN : 0618070311
When the honey guide cries, follow where she leads, past elephants and zebras, snakes and sleeping lions, to the place where there is treasure.
Author : Jan Brett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698180348
The African plains provide a stunning environment for Jan Brett's latest animal adventure. For as long as anyone can remember, the honeyguide bird and the African honey badger have been partners when it comes to honey:Honeyguide finds the honeycomb, Badger breaks it open, and they share the sweetness inside. But this day, Badger keeps all the honey for himself. Foolish Badger! In no time, Honeyguide leads Badger on a fast chase. Badger thinks it's for honey; but Honeyguide has a surprise waiting for her greedy friend. As they swim across a pond, push through a thicket of reeds, leap over a huge anthill, a menagerie of exotic animals passes the news along in a kind of animal Bush Telegraph. Finally Badger faces a lift-the-flap page, revealing the twist that teaches Badger a lesson. Can you guess who's under that flap? Honey . . . Honey . . . Lion! will surely become a family favorite for readers of all ages.
Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857905813
The acclaimed author travels across Ethiopia collecting folktales in this travelogue featuring many of the fabulous stories she heard. In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital city, to start her first teaching job. She was introduced to Emperor Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage across the mountains on foot to the ancient city of Lalibela, hitched a ride on an oil tanker across the Danakil Desert, and was arrested—briefly—for a murder she did not commit. Back in Britain, Laird established herself as a major author of fiction for children and young adults, but she always wanted to return to Ethiopia. Her chance came in the late 1990s, when the British Council in Addis Ababa invited her to collect folk stories from every region of the country. Encountering ex-guerrilla fighters, camel traders, Coptic nuns and tribespeople en route, Laird has written a remarkable account of her journey interwoven with a treasure trove of stories featuring princes and maidens, snakes and lions, zombies and hyena-women.
Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857905813
In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching post. She was introduced to Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage across the mountains on foot to the ancient city of Lalibela, hitched a ride on an oil tanker across the Danakil Desert, and was arrested for a murder she had not committed. Back in Britain, Laird established herself as a major author of fiction for children and young adults, but she always wanted to return to Ethiopia. Her chance came in the late 1990s, when the British Council in Addis Ababa invited her to collect folk stories from every region of the country. Encountering ex-guerrilla fighters, camel traders, Coptic nuns and tribespeople en route, Laird has written a remarkable account of her journey interwoven with a treasure trove of stories featuring princes and maidens, snakes and lions, zombies and hyena-women.
Author : Noriko Carroll
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2006-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780740757075
Provides full-color photographs that chronicle the life of a hummingbird, following the story of Honey, an adult female, and her two chicks, Ray and Zen, including building a nest, laying the eggs, hatching, and their first flight.
Author : Lester Short
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198546665
This book covers in unmatched detail the life history, relationships, biology, and conservation of all the world's toucans, barbets, and honeyguides. These number 133 species, found in tropical regions around the world. The toucans are especially well-known because of their dramatic bills and their association with the Amazon rainforest. The colour plates, painted by well- known US artist Albert Earl Gilbert, are probably the best paintings of these birds ever produced.
Author : Deborah Bawden
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 0008429820
Two funny, light-hearted traditional tales from Africa.
Author : Rafael Francis
Publisher : Rafael Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2024-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1763682412
Following a near-death experience, Clark Burrows, an aspiring journalist, calls on his best friend, Johnny, to make the most of their fading youth. They plan to exploit every drug they can get their hands on, destined to reach the full potential of their human senses. Clark plans to document and write a journal based on this adventure. Drugs can alter the mind, change perception and meddle with consciousness, but they are never to be underestimated. If a tiny speck of paracetamol in a sugar-coated tablet can erase a gut-wrenching fever, a headache and a case of the sweats, imagine what an injection direct to the bloodstream can do—better yet, a toxic deliriant of most wicked and evil capability. Through narcotics, stimulants, dissociatives and psychedelics, the objective was clear, but easy to lose sight of when uncanny situations, hilarious shortcomings, tricky romances and dodgy dealers get in the way. Clark and Johnny quickly learn how fragile, yet powerful the human psyche can be, experiencing feelings and worlds otherwise unknown, stumbling upon substances that weren't listed—and some, they didn't know existed. Journalism was the excuse. Curiosity was the drive.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811203227
One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print. Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in "Money and How It Gets That Way"--a tongue-in-cheek parody of "economics" provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he "ever thought about money." His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in "An Open Letter to All and Sundry," and in "The Angel is My Watermark" he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting. "The Immorality of Morality" is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as "First Love," are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light," and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco. Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.
Author : Nancy J. Jacobs
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300209614
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