[PDF] The Twelve Wild Geese eBook

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Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 9780590456845

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Rose saves the lives of her twelve brothers after a fairy turns them into geese.

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 1998-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0684829525

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Includes tales of fairies, changelings, ghosts, witches, saints, the devil, giants, kings, queens, and robbers.

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0553509489

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From the Golden Book archives comes a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, gloriously illustrated by Gordon Laite in the late 1960s but never published until now! Gordon Laite’s breathtaking artwork for a Little Golden Book edition of the Andersen fairy tale was found recently in the Golden Books archive. Planned for a 1970 release but never published, this Little Golden Book is finally making its debut for today’s fairy tale fans! And it couldn’t be a lovelier retelling of the story of a determined princess whose loyalty saves her brothers from being turned into swans by an evil queen.

Author : M. A. Ogilvie
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1408138611

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In range, Wild Geese covers the geese of North America, Europe and Asia, and thus the world species except for the Hawaiian Goose or Ne-Ne. The plan of the book is similar to the author's Ducks of Britain and Europe but distribution, status and migration rightly assume a more extensive role in Wild Geese and the detailed text on those subjects is fully complemented by migration and distribution maps. Comprehensive chapters are also devoted to classification, ecology, breeding, identification, and to exploitation and conservation. The identification chapter is especially helpful with sections on adult and first winter birds, downy young, plumage variants and voice, for each species and sub-species, as well as guidance on ageing and sexing geese in the field. The text is effectively supported by 16 identification plates in colour by Carol Ogilvie, showing details of heads and bills as well as all species in flight and on the ground, and downy young. The author is an established authority on ducks and geese and has been a research scientist at the Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, England, since 1960.

Author : Mori Ogai
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472901419

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Mori Ōgai (1862–1922), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, wrote The Wild Goose at the turn of the century. Set in the early 1880s, it was, for contemporary readers, a nostalgic return to a time when the nation was embarking on an era of dramatic change. Ōgai’s narrator is a middle-aged man reminiscing about an unconsummated affair, dating to his student days, between his classmate and a young woman kept by a moneylender. At a time when writers tended to depict modern, alienated male intellectuals, the characters of The Wild Goose are diverse, including not only students preparing for a privileged intellectual life and members of the plebeian classes who provide services to them, but also a pair of highly developed female characters. The author’s sympathetic and penetrating portrayal of the dilemmas and frustrations faced by women in this early period of Japan’s modernization makes the story of particular interest to readers today. Ōgai was not only a prolific and popular writer, but also a protean figure in early modern Japan: critic, translator, physician, military officer, and eventually Japan’s Surgeon General. His rigorous and broad education included the Chinese classics as well as Dutch and German; he gained admittance to the Medical School of Tokyo Imperial University at the age of only fifteen. Once established as a military physician, he was sent to Germany for four years to study aspects of European medicine still unfamiliar to the Japanese. Upon his return, he produced his first works of fiction and translations of English and European literature. Ōgai’s writing is extolled for its unparalleled style and psychological insight, nowhere better demonstrated than in The Wild Goose.

Author : Kieran Fanning
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0702304158

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A complete collection of much loved Irish fairy tales, myths and legends, bound into a beautiful new edition. Enjoy the rich mythical history of Ireland from the arrival of the Tuatha De Danann on the island and their great battles with the Fomorians right up to the modern day fairytales of Irish storytelling. Including the Ulster Cycle, and the Fenian Cycle, the book features heroes such as Cuchulainn and Fionn Mac Cumhaill, and many traditional favourites such as The Children of Lir.