An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk According To One Who Saw It
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An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk According To One Who Saw It
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Author : Jessie Greengrass
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-07-30
An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk According To One Who Saw It written by Jessie Greengrass and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-30 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 'Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt' A. L. Kennedy The twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world. There are stories about those who are lonely, or estranged, or out of time. There are hauntings, both literal and metaphorical; and acts of cruelty and neglect but also of penance. Some stories concern themselves with the present, and the mundane circumstances in which people find themselves: a woman who feels stuck in her life imagines herself in different jobs - as a lighthouse keeper in Wales, or as a guard against polar bears in a research station in the Arctic. Some stories concern themselves with the past: a sixteenth-century alchemist and doctor, whose arrogance blinds him to people's dissatisfaction with their lives until he experiences it himself. Finally, in the title story, a sailor gives his account - violent, occasionally funny and certainly tragic - of the decline of the Great Auk.
The Last Of Its Kind
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Author : Gísli Pálsson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-06
The Last Of Its Kind written by Gísli Pálsson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Science categories.
How an iconic bird’s final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinction The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gísli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species. Pálsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone. At the time, the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialized it as a natural phenomenon. Pálsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them, and how the naturalists’ Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concern—and as something that could be caused by humans. Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Pálsson’s own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great auk opens a window onto the human causes of mass extinction.
Wings Of The Gods
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Author : Peter (Petra) Gardella
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Wings Of The Gods written by Peter (Petra) Gardella and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Education categories.
Wings of the Gods surveys the many roles that birds have played in the development of religions, from legends, rituals, costumes, wars, and spiritual disciplines to the current ecological crisis. Peter (Petra) Gardella and Laurence Krute, both scholars and birdwatchers, transcend a narrow focus on humanity to explore the agency of birds in world history.
Granta 153 Second Nature
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Author : Isabella Tree
language : en
Publisher: Granta
Release Date : 2020-11-19
Granta 153 Second Nature written by Isabella Tree and has been published by Granta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-19 with Literary Collections categories.
'Never has there been a greater need for writers who can communicate about the environment in such clear, immediate and powerful ways, who can envisage the past as well as the future. The knowledge is already out there. We just have to listen. The contributors to this issue all have a deep understanding of how nature works. Some are scientists; others, environmental journalists exploring the latest thinking about ecosystems and how to repair them; or poets, novelists and activists examining our responses to the current crisis. These stories will, I hope, be both enlightening and empowering, galvanising us to bring about change.' Isabella Tree, guest-editor Patrick Barkham Tim Flannery Cal Flyn Jessie Greengrass Caoilinn Hughes Amy Leach Dino J. Martins Rod Mason Charles Massy Rebecca Priestley Callum Roberts Judith D. Schwartz Samanth Subramanian Ken Thompson Manari Ushigua Sheila Watt-Cloutier Adam Weymouth Photography: Xavi Bou, introduced by Tim Dee, and Merlin Sheldrake Poetry: Nate Duke and John Kinsella
We Could Not See The Stars
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Author : Elizabeth Wong
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-07-08
We Could Not See The Stars written by Elizabeth Wong and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-08 with Fiction categories.
Han was contemplative. Nothing that he had seen so far answered his questions about where his mama and he came from. Who they were. He was sad for his mama, and for himself, for not only did he not know her, he didn't even know the person whom she had become. And then, what of the people that led to him? His mama's father, his mama's mother, his mama's father's father, his mama's father's mother - the list went on and on, the people he did not know, the stories they had not told him, the names that they had lost. 'No people, only ghosts here,' he whispered. Han's uneventful life in a sleepy fishing village is disturbed when a strange man arrives, asking questions about Han's mother. Han doesn't trust Mr Ng, but his cousin Chong Meng is impressed with the stories of his travels and tales of a golden tower. Together they steal the only thing Han has left to remember his mother by, before disappearing. On a faraway island, across the great Peninsula and across the seas, the forest of Suriyang is cursed. Wander in and you will return without your memories. Professor Toh has been researching the forest of Suriyang for years. He believes that the forest hides something that does not wish to be discovered. An ancient civilization. A mysterious golden tower. Chong Meng is tangled up in the professor's plans to discover the truth about Suriyang. Han travels the breadth of the Peninsula to find his cousin before it is too late. How much will Han sacrifice to discover who he really is?
The High House
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Author : Jessie Greengrass
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-01-04
The High House written by Jessie Greengrass and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-04 with Fiction categories.
Trying to make a home in the midst of an environmental disaster, Caro, her younger half-brother, and High House's caretaker and his daughter fight to stay alive as the rising waters threaten to engulf the whole town.
Kaapse Bibliotekaris
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Kaapse Bibliotekaris written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Libraries categories.
Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-
Sight
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Author : Jessie Greengrass
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-02-22
Sight written by Jessie Greengrass and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with Fiction categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019 'A stunning debut' Guardian In Jessie Greengrass' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies. Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves.
Sight
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Author : Jessie Greengrass
language : en
Publisher: John Murray
Release Date : 2019-01-08
Sight written by Jessie Greengrass and has been published by John Murray this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Fiction categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 'A stunning debut' Guardian In Jessie Greengrass' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies. Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves.
Who Killed The Great Auk
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Author : Jeremy Gaskell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Who Killed The Great Auk written by Jeremy Gaskell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Nature categories.
"Who Killed the Great Auk? takes us on a tour of some of the wildest and most remote communities on earth. We travel with Audubon to Labrador, sail to the remote Scottish island of St. Kilda, experience the hardship of life in the Newfoundland colonies, and follow the peregrinations of intrepid naturalists as they put to sea in search of the very last of the Great Auks."--Jacket.
