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Author : Charles de Lint
Release : 2007-10-02
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 790/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ivory and the Horn by : Charles de Lint
Download or read book The Ivory and the Horn written by Charles de Lint. This book was released on 2007-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the world of Widdershins and The Onion Girl in this collection of Newford tales
Author : Arthur MacGregor
Release : 2014-10-30
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 013/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn by : Arthur MacGregor
Download or read book Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn written by Arthur MacGregor. This book was released on 2014-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artefacts made from skeletal materials since the Roman period were, before this book, neglected as a serious area of study. This is a comprehensive account which reviews over fifty categories of artefact. The book starts with a consideration of the formation, morphology and mechanical properties of the materials and illuminates characteristics concerning working with them. Following chapters discuss the organisation of the industry and trade in such items, including the changing status of the industry over time. Archaeological evidence is combined with that from historical and ethnological sources, with many illustrations providing key visual reference. Originally published in 1985.
Author : Ronald Isaac Orenstein
Release : 2013
Genre : African elephant
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 273/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ivory, Horn and Blood by : Ronald Isaac Orenstein
Download or read book Ivory, Horn and Blood written by Ronald Isaac Orenstein. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the illegal trafficking of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns and the implications for these endangered animals.
Author : De Lint, Charles
Release : 2000*
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Book Rating : 820/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ivory and the Horn [electronic Resource] : a Newford Collection by : De Lint, Charles
Download or read book The Ivory and the Horn [electronic Resource] : a Newford Collection written by De Lint, Charles. This book was released on 2000*. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phillip Hoose
Release : 2014-08-26
Genre : Young Adult Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by : Phillip Hoose
Download or read book The Race to Save the Lord God Bird written by Phillip Hoose. This book was released on 2014-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker." The Race to Save the Lord God Bird is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award.
