Feivel's Flying Horses
Title | Feivel's Flying Horses PDF eBook |
Author | Heidi Smith Hyde |
Publisher | Kar-Ben Publishing ™ |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1512488836 |
A loving father carves carousel horses that represent members of his family as he saves money to bring them from Europe to America. This book is a work of historical fiction based on the stories of Jewish woodcarvers who came from the Old Country and turned their talents to carving carousel horses on Coney Island.
Feivel's Flying Horses
Title | Feivel's Flying Horses PDF eBook |
Author | Heidi Smith Hyde |
Publisher | Kar-Ben Publishing |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0761339590 |
A Jewish immigrant who is saving money to bring his wife and children to join him in America creates ornate horses for a carousel on Coney Island, one for each member of his family.
Flying Horses, Secret Rivers, Magical Cities
Title | Flying Horses, Secret Rivers, Magical Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Anu Kumar |
Publisher | Hachette India Children's Books |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2024-06-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9357318143 |
Just a hundred years ago, much of the world was unknown - believe it or not! Secret cities lay hidden in the intimidating Himalayas, the perilous passes to them known to only a few. Fierce monsters were said to lurk in the swamps of north-east India. The mighty River Brahmaputra flowed through Assam and Bengal, but its place of origin was a big mystery. And in the cold, windy deserts of Central Asia, the fastest horse on earth galloped wild. Yet, intrepid explorers - men and women - full of curiosity and thirsty for knowledge, travelled to these distant and forbidding places. They returned with extraordinary tales and important discoveries, forever leaving their mark on history. Read their stories and join them on their exciting explorations in this rare book! Find how a way to Tibet was discovered, who brought the healing cinchona plant to the subcontinent, why the north-west frontier was once a very dangerous place, where exactly the Brahmaputra began its journey, what led to the rhododendron becoming a popular plant in faraway Britain, and much, much more!
Where Horses Fly
Title | Where Horses Fly PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Dagnall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Camp meetings |
ISBN | 9780977138494 |
The history of the Martha's Vineyard Camp-Meeting Association, a religious group, that began in 1835 and continues to this day.--
Horses
Title | Horses PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Johns |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780674023239 |
The remarkable relationship between people and horses has been evoked in art from the beginning of the bond between them. In this beautifully illustrated book, Catherine Johns explores the horse in art from the ancient world to the modern era, from the Horse of Selene to Persian miniatures and prints by Duerer, Stubbs, and Hokusai.
The Runaway Flying Horse
Title | The Runaway Flying Horse PDF eBook |
Author | Paul-Jacques Bonzon |
Publisher | Parents Magazine Press |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Horses |
ISBN | 9780819308757 |
Bored with his life on the merry-go-round, a little wooden horse decides to run away.
Horses Don't Fly
Title | Horses Don't Fly PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Libby |
Publisher | Arcade Publishing |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781559705264 |
" From breaking wild horses in Colorado to fighting the Red Baron's squadrons in the skies over France, here in his own words is the true story of a forgotten American hero: the cowboy who became our first ace and the first pilot to fly the American colors over enemy lines.Growing up on a ranch in Sterling, Colorado, Frederick Libby mastered the cowboy arts of roping, punching cattle, and taming horses. Once he even roped an antelope. As a young man he exercised his skills in the mountains and on the ranges of Arizona and New Mexico as well as the Colorado prairie. When World War I broke out, he found himself in Calgary, Alberta, and joined the Canadian army. In France, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an "observer," the gunner in a two-person biplane. Libby shot down an enemy plane on his first day in battle over the Somme, which was also the first day he flew in a plane or fired a machine gun. He went on to become a pilot. He fought against the legendary German aces Oswald Boelcke and Manfred von Richthofen. He became the first American to down five enemy planes and won the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in action. When the United States entered the war, he became the first person to fly the American colors over German lines. Libby achieved the rank of captain before he transferred back to the United States at the behest of another aviation legend, then-colonel Billy Mitchell. Written in 1961 and never before published, Horses Don't Fly is a rare piece of Americana. Libby's memoir of his cowboy days in the last years of the Old West will remind readers of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy-but it's the real thing. His description of World War I combines a rattling good account of the air war over France with captivating and sometimes poignant depictions of wartime London, the sorrow for friends lost in combat, and the courage and camaraderie of the Royal Flying Corps. Told in a modest, self-deprecating, and often humorous voice in a pure American vernacular, Horses Don't Fly is, as Winston Groom notes in his introduction, "not only an important piece of previously unpublished history [but] a gripping and uplifting story to read."