[bookshare-discuss] Four books Submitted
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:33:07 -0400
Hi you all, here are four books submitted. Some edited some not.
Everyone Remembers the Elephant in the Pink Tutu
Hold for Monica on Advertising.
Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul II
Manatees: Their Natual Habitat and Conservation
By James Powell
From the Book jacket:
These large, herbivorous marine mammals have calm, inquisitive natures that
have endeared them to many. Curious legends are associated with manatees and
dugongs, and they are central to many cultural traditions around the world.
These remarkable animals are at risk throughout most of their range, from
hunting, collisions with water craft, entanglement in fishing gear, habitat
alteration, and disease. This up-to-date study examines their origins, life
cycles, and present distribution, and discusses the problems facing
conservationists in their efforts to protect these gentle giants.
Discover the world's animals and the physical world in the World Life
Library from Voyageur Press. This highly acclaimed series brings you the
latest research from leading naturalists, along with stunning color
photographs of your favorite animals and of our fascinating natural world.
**********
The Spotted Sphinx
By Joy Adamson
From the Book jacket:
joy adamson, universally known for her epic of Elsa, the Kenya lioness, and
her cubs, has a new and fascinating animal story to tell. This time it is
centered on Pippa, a cheetah given to her by her owners, who had raised her
as a pet. Mrs. Adamson decided to restore this great and graceful cat to its
natural wild heritage, in spite of the fact that no domesticated cheetah had
ever consented to return to the bush.
Joy Adamson first gained the friendship and trust of her charge; then, with
what Julian Huxley termed her "passionate patience and understanding love,"
she encouraged her to enter the wild life. Eventually Pippa mated with a
wild cheetah and lived in the bush. But this did not end her relationship
with Joy Adamson: when the first litter was born, Pippa led her to her cubs.
The life of a wild animal is harsh-but no less harsh is the life of someone
dedicated to keeping in touch (over several years) with a family of wild
cheetahs. Against a background of terrifying floods, an alarming bush fire,
and the menace of bandits, Joy Adamson kept contact by making long daily
treks, always burdened with heavy loads, through bush in which elephants
might stampede at any moment, or one might inadvertently arouse the ire of
lions and leopards.
The record of the three years during which Joy Adamson watched over the
development of Pippa and her young is as engrossing and as acutely observed
as was her account of her relationship with Elsa. Elsa still looms large in
the book as her human friend describes the contrast in character between the
elegant, affectionate but enigmatic and elusive cheetah and the magnificent
Elsa.
The author's photographs of the story is complete and extraordinarily
beautiful.
JOY ADAMSON
was born in Austria and spent nearly thirty years in Kenya. As wife of the
Senior Game Warden of the Northern Frontier District of Africa, she explored
some of the most inaccessible regions of that vast area. In the fifties, she
undertook to make a record, both in paintings and in photographs, of the
vanishing customs and costumes of Kenyan tribal life, published in The
Peoples of Kenya.
Since the publication of her books on the lioness Elsa and her cubs-Born
Free, Living Free, and Forever Free-she has been known throughout the world
as a best-selling author, dedicated to the conservation of African wild
life, which she helps finance through her Elsa Fund.
Shelley L. Rhodes M.A., VRT, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Alumni Association Board
www.guidedogs.com
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limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller
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