2021, ISBN: 9780374530433

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Bearport Pub Co Inc. Library Binding. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all… mais…

Bearport Pub Co Inc. Library Binding. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included., Bearport Pub Co Inc, 1, UsedGood. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials., 0, Little Simon, 2009-07-07. Board book. Used: Good., Little Simon, 2009-07-07, 2.5, -: Arrow Books Ltd, 2015. None. Paperback. Very Good. -. A candid and brilliantly funny memoir... ...of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed comedy legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-wracking first public appearance at St Peter`s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman. And so on to his dizzying ascent via scriptwriting for Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman and others to the heights of Monty Python. Punctuated from time to time with John Cleese`s thoughts on topics as diverse as the nature of comedy, the relative merits of cricket and waterskiing, and the importance of knowing the dates of all the kings and queens of England, this is a masterly performance by a former schoolmaster., Arrow Books Ltd, 2015, 3, Victoria University Press. Very Good. 21 x 14cm. Paperback. 2004. 327 pages. <br>The wide white page spans eight centuries of writi ng - from Dante's epic account of Ulysses's last southbound ocean journey to Michael Chabon's writing of a WWII US army base on th e ice, in Kavalier and Clay. There is fiction and poetry from nea rly a dozen different countries, and genres range from Coleridge' s Rime of the ancient mariner, via H.P. Lovecraft's Gothic fantas y and Kim Stanley Robinson future fiction, to the surreal comedy of Monty Python's Scott of the Sahara. --book jacket. ., Victoria University Press, 2004, 3, Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2.5, Random House, 1981. Hardcover. Good., Random House, 1981, 2.5, In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weight in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the heartwarming tradition of Born Free, a fascinating, funny and moving memoir of a family's life in the African wilderness and their love for an orphaned lion.Kobie Kruger fell in love with her new home in remote Mahlangeni the moment she arrived with her game-ranger husband Kobus and their three little girls. Golden sunshine glowed in the lush garden; hippos basked in the Letaba River; storks and herons perched along the shore. Kobie felt she'd found heaven on earth - until she found a python in her bedroom on the first night. It was the perfect introduction to the wonders and terrors that awaited.As the family settled into their new life, a steady stream of wild animals wandered in and out. A honey badger that they nursed back to health rampaged happily through the house. Sneaky hyenas stole blankets. Ordinarily placid elephants grew violent in the summer heat. And one terrible day, a lion attacked Kobus in the bush and nearly killed him.But nothing prepared them for the sheer joy and heartbreak of raising a lion cub, Kobus found the three-day-old orphan hoarse with crying for its dead mother and brought it home. Though terrified of lions, Kobie turned into an instant lion-mother. Leo became an adored member of the family, though they always knew that one day he would have to return to the wild. By turns funny and heartbreaking, engaging and hair-raising, The Wilderness Family is an unforgettable memoir of a woman, her family, and the remote corner of the world they called home for seventeen incredible years., Transworld, 2001, 2.5, Wordsworth Editions Ltd. New. Wordsworth Press, Paperback, 2007, Book Condition: New, The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man. . 1998. TRADE PAPERBACK., Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998, 6, After losing his brother to cancer and a painful divorce that left him the sole charge d'affaires of two decidedly spirited children, environmental reporter Daniel Glick knew he and his little family desperately needed some karmic rejuvenation. He opted for an epic adventure. In the summer of 2001, Dan, Zoe, and Kolya packed up and set off on a six-month tour to see the world's most exotic and endangered habitats. Monkey Dancing takes readers along for this incredible journey. From the python-infested rivers of Borneo to the highest summits of Bali, from Nepal's Gangeatic Plains to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Glick recounts the adventures they met with, the challenges they confronted, and how they learned to cope with grief, loss, and one another. Along the way, he offers intimate reflection on life, fatherhood, change, and the fragile health of our troubled planet. Acclaimed by reviewers, a BookSense Parenting bestseller, Monkey Dancing is a ""poignant, affirming, ultimately courageous book"" ,Audubon Magazine.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés. ., 0, Simon Spotlight, 2012-05-01. Hardcover. Used: Good., Simon Spotlight, 2012-05-01, 2.5, Andrew Park, 2021-04-27. Hardcover. Used: Good., Andrew Park, 2021-04-27, 2.5, Andrew Park, 2021-04-27. Hardcover. Used:Good., Andrew Park, 2021-04-27, 0, Little Simon, 2013-09-03. Brdbk. Board book. Used: Good., Little Simon, 2013-09-03, 2.5, Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, Bantam Books. Good. Paperback. 2002. 208 pages. light wear, tanned pages<br><br><p><strong>ZOO TAILS </strong><br /><br />by Oliver Graham-Jones <br /><br />Bantam Bo oks, UK, 2002<br />ISBN 9780553813425<br />midsize pb, 208pp<br / ><br />GOOD: light wear, tanned pages<br /><br />One puff adder; one antelope; one crocodile. These were the animals on the sick l ist with which Oliver Graham-Jones was presented on his first day as veterinary officer of London Zoo. It was 1950, and the care o f wild animals in zoos was in its infancy. Previously sick animal s had been placed in the care of their keepers, kept from public view, and if they didn't respond to traditional medications allow ed to pass quietly away. But Oliver was to change all this. A pio neer of many of the techniques now used by vets around the world, he was instrumental in building the first animal hospital, and i n moving London Zoo away from its Victorian past into the high-te ch world of modern veterinary medicine. In Zoo Tails, he tells us about some of the animals he cared for: what it felt like when h e was faced with an escaped bear or an injured elephant; and what he did when called upon to perform a colostomy on a python, or w hen he was asked to fit one of the ravens in the Tower of London with a wooden leg. If a dangerous animal escaped or required urge nt medical attention, Oliver Graham-Jones was always on hand, rea dy for any eventuality. Frequently describing himself as quaking with fear, he comes across as humane, skilful and most of all inc redibly brave. If you are a lover of animals in any shape or form , and My Family and Other Animals was an essential part of your c hildhood reading, then Zoo Tails is for you.</p> ., Bantam Books, 2002, 2.5, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 256pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a near Very Good dj [dj = tear @ top rear corner; nick @ spine tail; else nrVG] A nice crisp copy of this tie-in to the TV series by the Monty Python alumnus., New York: St. Martin's Press, 5, No Starch Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., No Starch Press, Incorporated, 2.5, No Starch Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., No Starch Press, Incorporated, 2.5, No Starch Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., No Starch Press, Incorporated, 2.5, No Starch Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., No Starch Press, Incorporated, 2.5, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing gear of airliners; pernicious European zebra mussels, riding in ships' ballast water, disrupt aquatic ecosystems across the United States; feral camels and poisonous foreign toads plague Australia; giant Indonesian pythons lurk beneath homes in suburban Miami. As alien species jump from place to place and increasingly crowd native and endangered species out of existence, biologists speak fearfully of "the homogenization of the world." Never mind bulldozers and pesticides: the fastest growing threat to biological diversity may be nature itself. Out of Eden is a dazzling personal journey through this strange and shifting landscape. Alan Burdick tours the front lines of ecological invasion in the company of world-class scientists: in Hawaii, Tasmania, Guam, San Francisco; in lush rain forests, aboard an Alaska-bound oil tanker, inside a spacecraft-assembly facility at NASA. Wry and reflective, animated and provocative, Out of Eden is a search both for scientific answers and for ecological authenticity, from a writer of remarkable range and talent. Out of Eden is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction., Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006, 5<

2006, ISBN: 9780374530433

New York: Anchor Books; Random House, 2006 xiii, 416 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetratin… mais…

New York: Anchor Books; Random House, 2006 xiii, 416 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt--it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt's life, here is Candice Millard's dazzling debut. / CANDICE MILLARD is a former writer and editor at National Geographic magazine. She lives in Kansas City." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Anchor Books; Random House, 2006, 5, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing gear of airliners; pernicious European zebra mussels, riding in ships' ballast water, disrupt aquatic ecosystems across the United States; feral camels and poisonous foreign toads plague Australia; giant Indonesian pythons lurk beneath homes in suburban Miami. As alien species jump from place to place and increasingly crowd native and endangered species out of existence, biologists speak fearfully of "the homogenization of the world." Never mind bulldozers and pesticides: the fastest growing threat to biological diversity may be nature itself. Out of Eden is a dazzling personal journey through this strange and shifting landscape. Alan Burdick tours the front lines of ecological invasion in the company of world-class scientists: in Hawaii, Tasmania, Guam, San Francisco; in lush rain forests, aboard an Alaska-bound oil tanker, inside a spacecraft-assembly facility at NASA. Wry and reflective, animated and provocative, Out of Eden is a search both for scientific answers and for ecological authenticity, from a writer of remarkable range and talent. Out of Eden is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction., Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006, 5<

2006, ISBN: 0374530432

[EAN: 9780374530433], Used, as new, [PU: Farrar Straus Giroux], Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to place… mais…

[EAN: 9780374530433], Used, as new, [PU: Farrar Straus Giroux], Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing gear of airliners; pernicious European zebra mussels, riding in ships' ballast water, disrupt aquatic ecosystems across the United States; feral camels and poisonous foreign toads plague Australia; giant Indonesian pythons lurk beneath homes in suburban Miami. As alien species jump from place to place and increasingly crowd native and endangered species out of existence, biologists speak fearfully of "the homogenization of the world." Never mind bulldozers and pesticides: the fastest growing threat to biological diversity may be nature itself. Out of Eden is a dazzling personal journey through this strange and shifting landscape. Alan Burdick tours the front lines of ecological invasion in the company of world-class scientists: in Hawaii, Tasmania, Guam, San Francisco; in lush rain forests, aboard an Alaska-bound oil tanker, inside a spacecraft-assembly facility at NASA. Wry and reflective, animated and provocative, Out of Eden is a search both for scientific answers and for ecological authenticity, from a writer of remarkable range and talent. Out of Eden is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction., Books<