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| Author | : Christopher Skaife |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2018-10-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1443455946 |
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For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones. But their role is even more important than that—legend has it that if the ravens should ever leave, the Tower will crumble into dust and great harm will befall the kingdom. The responsibility for ensuring that such a disaster never comes to pass falls to one man: the Ravenmaster. The current holder of the position is Yeoman Warder Christopher Skaife, and in this fascinating, entertaining and touching book he memorably describes the ravens’ formidable intelligence, their idiosyncrasies and their occasionally wicked sense of humour. The Ravenmaster is a compelling, inspiring and irreverent story that will delight and surprise anyone with an interest in British history or animal behaviour.
| Author | : Christopher Skaife |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2018-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0008307903 |
Download The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Packed with insight and anecdote, his story brings the Tower ravens to vivid life, each bird with a personality of its own. I've been fortunate enough to tour the Tower and meet the ravens a few times in years past; after reading this book, I cannot wait to go back' George R. R. Martin
| Author | : Elvira Woodruff |
| Publisher | : Perfection Learning |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780756947910 |
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The 11-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there.
| Author | : K a Riley |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2021-11-04 |
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| ISBN | : |
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Kress and Brohn, a young Emergent couple with techno-genetically enhanced abilities, embark on a quest to infiltrate the Cult of the Devoted in the skyscraping arcology in the middle of what's left of Denver, Colorado. When Brohn mysteriously vanishes early in their mission, Kress-accompanied by Render, her psychically-connected raven companion-is forced to undertake a perilous journey through a danger-filled, post-apocalyptic city to find him and get him back. In this high-stakes adventure, inspired by Homer's epic The Odyssey, Kress must battle manipulators, gangsters, giants, and ghosts, and will literally go through Hell to find the man she loves.
| Author | : Mary Hoffman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2017-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781911122135 |
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| Author | : Frances Liardet |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2019-02-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0735218889 |
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage." --Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing Spanning World War II and the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself. A woman. A war. The child who changed everything. December 1940. As German bombs fall on Southampton, England during World War II, the city's residents flee to the surrounding villages. In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly married Ellen Parr finds a girl asleep, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. Little Pamela, it seems, is entirely alone. Ellen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home, the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband Selwyn had dreamed for themselves. As the war rages on, love grows where it was least expected, surprising them all. But with the end of the fighting comes the realization that Pamela was never theirs to keep. Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.
| Author | : Laline Paull |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2014-05-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062331167 |
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The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death. Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive’s survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw but her courage and strength are an asset. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect pollen. She also finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous. But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all—daring to challenge the Queen’s fertility—enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, her society—and lead her to unthinkable deeds. Thrilling, suspenseful and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees gives us a dazzling young heroine and will change forever the way you look at the world outside your window.
| Author | : Sam Thompson |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 2012-07-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0007454783 |
Download Communion Town Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Man Booker longlisted novel is a meditation on how each of us conjures up our own city.
| Author | : Nigel Jones |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 665 |
| Release | : 2012-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1250018145 |
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A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the world's busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it. Castle, royal palace, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, home to the crown jewels, armory, record office, observatory, and the most visited tourist attraction in the UK: The Tower of London has been all these things and more. No building in Britain has been more intimately involved in the island's story than this mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital, a place which has stood at the epicenter of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years. Now historian Nigel Jones sets this dramatic story firmly in the context of national—and international—events. In a gripping account drawn from primary sources and lavishly illustrated with sixteen pages of stunning photographs, he captures the Tower in its many changing moods and its many diverse functions. Here, for the first time, is a thematic portrayal of the Tower of london not just as an ancient structure, but as a living symbol of the nation of Great Britain.
| Author | : Bernd Heinrich |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 686 |
| Release | : 2009-10-13 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0061863939 |
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Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world. At the heart of this book are Heinrich's love and respect for these complex and engaging creatures, and through his keen observation and analysis, we become their intimates too. Heinrich's passion for ravens has led him around the world in his research. Mind of the Raven follows an exotic journey—from New England to Germany, and from Montana to Baffin Island in the high Arctic—offering dazzling accounts of how science works in the field, filtered through the eyes of a passionate observer of nature. Each new discovery and insight into raven behavior is thrilling to read, at once lyrical and scientific.
