Song Of The Crocodile

Download or read book Song of the Crocodile written by Nardi Simpson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'SONG OF THE CROCODILE is a moving, wise and deeply rewarding novel from an astonishing writer' - Emily Maguire, author of AN ISOLATED INCIDENT Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of the Billymil family, three generations who have lived in this 'gateway town'. Race relations between Indigenous and settler families are fraught, though the rigid status quo is upheld through threats and soft power rather than the overt violence of yesteryear. As progress marches forwards, Darnmoor and its surrounds undergo rapid social and environmental changes, but as some things change, some stay exactly the same. The Billymil family are watched (and sometimes visited) by ancestral spirits and spirits of the recently deceased, who look out for their descendants and attempt to help them on the right path. When the town's secrets start to be uncovered the town will be rocked by a violent act that forever shatters a century of silence. Full of music, Yuwaalaraay language and exquisite description, Song of the Crocodile is a lament to choice and change, and the unyielding land that sustains us all, if only we could listen to it. 'In Song of the Crocodile, Yuwaalaraay author Nardi Simpson makes a lightning debut.' - Kill Your Darlings

Download or read book Crocodile Smile written by Sarah Weeks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten songs, each from a different endangered animal's point of view, offer a stunning anthem to our planet and its inhabitants.

Download or read book Dragon Songs written by Vladimir Dinets and published by Arcade. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing story of a groundbreaking scientific quest over five continents to study our modern dinosaurs—that ends up changing a life, as well as our understanding about crocodiles and their relatives. A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic—survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else—until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations—a form of communication extremely rare in nature—and a “dance” unknown in the scientific literature but that resembled a scene from Jurassic Park. To prove his thesis about the language of crocodiles, he spent the next six years traveling around the world on shoestring budgets and in extreme circumstances, studying almost every living species. At the same time, as a man desiring companionship in life, he sought love. With adventures on five continents, Dragon Songs is his account of this quest. It includes an escape from a boiling lava lake in the Afar Desert, being chased up a tree by a tiger in India, hitching a ride with a cocaine smuggler in Bolivia, and diving with giant Greenland sharks—all in the name of studying crocodiles, among which he routinely paddled in his inflatable kayak. Of course, not everything went according to plan. But, in the end, his ground-breaking research helped change the field. And during the course of his adventures, he met and courted his future wife.

Download or read book Crocodile Smile Book and CD written by Sarah Weeks and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten songs about animals such as "I've never eaten a princess" in which a komodo dragon bemoans the damage fairy tales have done to his reputation.

Download or read book Here Comes the Crocodile written by Kathryn White and published by Koala Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here comes the crocodile! And he's sniffing and he's snarling. And he's grumbling and he's growling. And his great big tummy's rumbling . . . Oh no! He's hungry. RUN!

Download or read book Crocodile Safari written by Jim Arnosky and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Jim Arnosky describes his trip into the Florida Everglades in search of the elusive American crocodile, an animal which has inhabited the earth since the days of the dinosaurs.

Download or read book Never Smile at a Crocodile written by Jack Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You should never smile at Mr Crocodile! Sing along with Jay Laga'aia's wonderful recording of the classic song, marvel at the delightful illustrations, and play with the cuddly plush toy.