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Author |
: Richard J. King |
Publisher |
: University of New Hampshire Press |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
Release |
: 2013-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611682250 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611682258 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Devil's Cormorant by : Richard J. King
Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The DevilÕs Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the worldÕs most misunderstood waterfowl.
Author |
: Seth Dickinson |
Publisher |
: Tor Books |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2018-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466875135 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466875135 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Monster Baru Cormorant by : Seth Dickinson
A breathtaking geopolitical epic fantasy, The Monster Baru Cormorant is the sequel to Seth Dickinson's "fascinating tale" (The Washington Post), The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Her world was shattered by the Empire of Masks. For the power to shatter the Masquerade, She betrayed everyone she loved. The traitor Baru Cormorant is now the cryptarch Agonist—a secret lord of the empire she's vowed to destroy. Hunted by a mutinous admiral, haunted by the wound which has split her mind in two, Baru leads her dearest foes on an expedition for the secret of immortality. It's her chance to trigger a war that will consume the Masquerade. But Baru's heart is broken, and she fears she can no longer tell justice from revenge...or her own desires from the will of the man who remade her. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author |
: Linda R. Wires |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2014-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300187113 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300187114 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Double-Crested Cormorant by : Linda R. Wires
Explores the roots of the human-cormorant conflict and assesses the federal policies that have been developed to manage the bird's population in the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Sandra Perron |
Publisher |
: Cormorant Books |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2017-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781770864955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1770864954 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out Standing in the Field by : Sandra Perron
Some books are catalysts. Shake Hands with the Devil was one. For 2017, that book is Out Standing in the Field. In her memoir, Sandra Perron describes her experience of the Canadian Military - one of the most important institutions of our nation. What she has to say is exactly what the top brass has been paying lip-service to for years, and doing nothing to improve. In 2016, the Auditor General's Report noted that the military had no strategy to recruit women, even though they are required to meet a target that 25% of the uniformed personnel be women. According to Statistics Canada, 1,000 members of our military say they have been sexually assaulted in the past year. In her revealing and moving memoir, Sandra Perron, Canada's first female infantry officer and a member of the Royal 22e Régiment - the legendary "Van Doos" - describes her fight against a system of institutional sexism. Though repeatedly identified as top of her class throughout her training, she was subject to harassment by her male colleagues. Her military experience, however, wasn't all negative. Through two deployments to Bosnia and Croatia, Perron forged lasting friendships with men and women, serving her country with courage and compassion, and her determination helped pave the way for women's inclusion in the Armed Forces. Out Standing in the Field is the story of a soldier who refused to let her comrades or her country down, even while serving a military institution that failed her repeatedly. Beautifully written, Perron's memoir is a testament to her fortitude and patriotism, and serves as proof that the spirit of a true hero cannot be bent or broken.
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Total Pages |
: 374 |
Release |
: 1928 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4883310 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
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Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1928 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030583486 |
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: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anthropological Series by :
Author |
: Christian Beamish |
Publisher |
: Patagonia |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2013-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781938340116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1938340116 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Voyage of the Cormorant by : Christian Beamish
Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer’s Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality – and how the two came to shape each other – places Voyage of the Cormorant in the great American tradition of tales of life at sea, and what it has to teach us.
Author |
: Richard J. King |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 449 |
Release |
: 2019-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226514963 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022651496X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ahab's Rolling Sea by : Richard J. King
Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees.
Author |
: John Milton |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 1711 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:N11678720 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paradise Lost by : John Milton
Author |
: Phil Robinson |
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Total Pages |
: 540 |
Release |
: 1883 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HN25ID |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (ID Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poets' Birds by : Phil Robinson