Vultures In The Wind
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Vultures In The Wind
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Author : Peter Rimmer
language : en
Publisher: Peter Rimmer
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Vultures In The Wind written by Peter Rimmer and has been published by Peter Rimmer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
RIMMER’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL BOOK YET! Luke was close to death. He had been beaten mercilessly and was unrecognisable. They wanted the names of his ANC accomplices. Matt and Luke are born on the same day, spending an idyllic childhood in the heart of the Transkei, blissfully unaware of the differences between them. When they are forced to leave their home, both young boys struggle to find their place in a society where racial segregation is part of everyday life. Slowly they begin to build their lives but everything changes when Luke is taken in the night from Matt’s flat to a place unknown and is brutally beaten for information. After spending time in a hospital, they sadly part with Luke embarking on the revolutionary fight for freedom and Matt building a business empire. It’s the 1960s, South Africa, and it would be another twenty-nine years before they would meet again. Can either of them find peace, or was their all-too-brief childhood their only comfort in a world driven by political and societal extremes? Told from a personal perspective, Peter Rimmer’s Vultures in the Wind will open your eyes to the fate of South Africa and of the machinations of the great powers of the East and West. This story isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s a must-read. Get your copy today! Praise for Vultures in the Wind: A book worth reading! Deeply moving and entertaining read. Authentic and beautiful. Love, love, loved it.
The Wind Masters
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Author : Pete Dunne
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2003
The Wind Masters written by Pete Dunne and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Nature categories.
Vividly written by "the bard of birding" and beautifully illustrated by acclaimed bird artist Sibley, "The Wind Masters" shows what it is like to be a bird of prey. Line drawings throughout.
Vulture
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Author : Katie Fallon
language : en
Publisher: University Press of New England
Release Date : 2017-03-07
Vulture written by Katie Fallon and has been published by University Press of New England this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-07 with Nature categories.
Turkey vultures, the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet, are found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina, and nearly everywhere in between. In the United States we sometimes call them buzzards; in parts of Mexico the name is aura cabecirroja, in Uruguay jote cabeza colorada, and in Ecuador gallinazo aura. A huge bird, the turkey vulture is a familiar sight from culture to culture, in both hemispheres. But despite being ubiquitous and recognizable, the turkey vulture has never had a book of literary nonfiction devoted to it - until Vulture. Floating on six-foot wings, turkey vultures use their keen senses of smell and sight to locate carrion. Unlike their cousin the black vulture, turkey vultures do not kill weak or dying animals; instead, they cleanse, purify, and renew the environment by clearing it of decaying carcasses, thus slowing the spread of such dangerous pathogens as anthrax, rabies, and botulism. The beauty, grace, and important role of these birds in the ecosystem notwithstanding, turkey vultures are maligned and underappreciated; they have been accused of spreading disease and killing livestock, neither of which has ever been substantiated. Although turkey vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which makes harming them a federal offense, the birds still face persecution. They've been killed because of their looks, their odor, and their presence in proximity to humans. Even the federal government occasionally sanctions "roost dispersals," which involve the harassment and sometimes the murder of communally roosting vultures during the cold winter months. Vulture follows a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. By incorporating information from scientific papers and articles, as well as interviews with world-renowned raptor and vulture experts, author Katie Fallon examines all aspects of the bird's natural history: breeding, incubating eggs, raising chicks, migrating, and roosting. After reading this book you will never look at a vulture in the same way again.
A Vulture Landscape
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Author : Ian Parsons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-07
A Vulture Landscape written by Ian Parsons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-07 with Nature categories.
A Vulture Landscape is more than just a book about vultures, in the same way that these majestic flyers are more than just birds. Vultures are a crucial part of many of the world's ecosystems, and without these specialist environmental cleansers the ecosystems wouldn't work properly. A calendar year in the lives of these gargantuan raptors is explored as they live, breed, feed and fly with effortless ease across the skies of the vulture landscape that is Extremadura in central Spain.There are four species of vulture in Europe, and a fifth that is becoming more of a regular visitor as its own global population plummets. The serious conservation issues faced on a day-to-day basis by these species, and their relatives spread across the globe, are explored, issues that in many cases threaten their very survival. However, this book is a celebration of the vulture and the landscape in which it reigns.Using the latest science, his keen eye and his passion for the birds themselves, the author takes the reader on a journey, introducing readers to the vultures, their lives and their landscape. Along the way, much of the other wonderful wildlife of the vulture landscape, from exotic Bee-eaters and bewitching Montagu's Harriers to rutting Red Stags as well as some very excitable cattle, are included. Ian explains how watching vultures is not only addictive, but that it can often lead to vulture gazing, surely the most relaxing form of bird watching there is!
In The Shadow Of The Vulture
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Author : George Ryga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
In The Shadow Of The Vulture written by George Ryga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Fiction categories.
Set in the desert at the Mexico-U.S. border, this novel deals with the hope and despair of immigrant labourers.
Vultures
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Author : Tracy Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2012-01-15
Vultures written by Tracy Barrett and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Explores the anatomy, skills, habitats, diets, and hunting strategies of the world's amazing animals.
Vultures
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Author : Tracy Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2012-01-15
Vultures written by Tracy Barrett and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Provides comprehensive information on the anatomy, special skills, habitats, and diet of vultures
Wake Of Vultures
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Author : Lila Bowen
language : en
Publisher: Orbit
Release Date : 2015-10-27
Wake Of Vultures written by Lila Bowen and has been published by Orbit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with Fiction categories.
"Wake of Vultures will kick your a** up one page and down the other." -- io9 Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight. Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun. But if she can't kill the thing haunting her nightmares and stealing children across the prairie, she'll lose it all -- and never find out what happened to her real family. Wake of Vultures is the first novel of the Shadow series featuring the fearless Nettie Lonesome. The Shadow seriesWake of VulturesConspiracy of Ravens
A View Of Vultures
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Author : Alan Scholefield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
A View Of Vultures written by Alan Scholefield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Fiction categories.
Who Owns The Wind
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Author : David McDermott Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Who Owns The Wind written by David McDermott Hughes and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Political Science categories.
The energy transition has begun. To succeed - to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power - that process must be fair. Otherwise, mounting popular protest against wind farms will prolong carbon pollution and deepen the climate crisis. David Hughes examines that anti-industrial, anti-corporate resistance, drawing insights from a Spanish village surrounded by turbines. In the lives of these neighbours - freighted with centuries of exploitation - clean power and social justice fit together only awkwardly. Proposals for a green economy, the Green New Deal, or Europe's Green Deal require more effort. We must rethink aesthetics, livelihood, property, and, most essentially, the private nature of wind resources. Ultimately, the energy transition will be public and just, or it may not be at all