[PDF] The Ivory And The Horn eBook

Author : Charles de Lint
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765316790

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Return to the world of Widdershins and The Onion Girl in this collection of Newford tales

Author : Arthur MacGregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317602013

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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
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : African elephant
ISBN : 9781770852273

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Describes the illegal trafficking of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns and the implications for these endangered animals.

Author : Michael Locke
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780764343070

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In the pre-plastic era everything was made from natural materials, often by skilled craftsmen. The materials that they used are now often rare and easily misidentified. Are they made from bone, ivory, horn, tortoiseshell shell, skin or scales, or some other now forgotten exotic material? This technical book will help collectors, antique dealers, museum conservationists, and frequenters of flea markets to know more about the vast array of those artifacts, their biology, rarity, value, and how to conserve and restore them. Included in this comprehensive guide are hundreds of images of actual collectibles ranging from knives to buttons.

Author : Charles De Lint
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312855734

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A collection of tales focuses on the magical city of Newford and includes "Our Lady of the Harbour," a retelling of "The Little Mermaid," and "Winter Was Hard," which describes androgynous, pixie-like creatures known as gemmin.

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0374301964

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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.

Author : Robert Holdstock
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0575119063

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Several years ago, Christian Huxley's father, George, obsessively documented the strange phenomena emanating from Ryhope Wood at the edge of their property. He watched the ancient heroes emerge, shouting both incomprehensible warnings and unmistakable invitations. Recklessly, George followed them inot the mysterious sylvan shadows that changed him forever. Christian himself was not untouched by these living dreams. A childhood encounter with a phantom from another time draws him to the Wood as an adult. Deep in Ryhope, Christian uncovers the lie that permeates his worst nightmares. And like his father, he will be consumed with the mythagoes of Ryhope, especially a young Celtic warrior called Guiwenneth. She is the key to the mystery of the universe, an ancient heroine caught in a timeless tale of bravery and sacrifice. Now, together with a band of crusaders from a world long gone, Christian and Guiwenneth become part of the unfolding stories both remembered and forgotten. They meet sorcerers in battle and giants who can travel miles in one step. And they discover the meaning of the two gates, Ivory and Horn - one the lie, the other the truth.