Seeking a safe haven in the forest after his family is murdered, fierce warrior Ronin, laird of the McTavers, takes Kalial, the princess of the forest, hostage when he comes under attack by forest dwellers and soon discovers a love to last a lifetime with his beautiful captive. Original.
Retraces Audubon's travels through North America in the early 1800s, and the authors' journal
Edited by William Cronon . New York : Library of America , 1997 . Murphy , Priscilla Coit . What a Book Can Do : The Publication and Reception of " Silent Spring . " Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2005 .
Various individuals contributed their special knowledge during the research process. I am indebted to Gabina de Paepe, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp; Françoise Reynaud and Jean-Baptise Woloch at Musée Carnavalet in ...
Provides young readers with a tour of the rugged west with a look at its beautiful canyons, deserts, and the vast Rocky Mountains that are the home to many strange and unique plants and animals, including cacti, rattlesnakes, buffalo, and ...
into her nightgown and climbing into the big bed where Dulcie already lay sound asleep. ... Next to her Dulcie had awakened and was sitting up, her cries filling the silent room. ... “I wish we could go back to the island.
Two years later, Wild America, their classic account of the trip, was published. On the eve of that book's fiftieth anniversary, naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Peterson and Fisher's steps to tell the story of wild America today.
( The eponymous Jean Charles was an associate of the pirate Jean Lafitte . ) Naquin had a son , Jean Marie , who married a Native woman and escaped to the island after his father disowned him . Jean Marie's children , in turn , married ...
Under the Wild Sky: A Saga of Love and War Inb Revolutionary Ireland
Birds were “the objects of my greatest delight,” wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world’s greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of...
Mali Under the Night Sky, a 2011 Skipping Stones honor book, is the true story of Laotian American artist Malichansouk Kouanchao, whose family was forced by civil war to flee Laos when she was five.