The Life of the Cave
Title | The Life of the Cave PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Mohr, Thomas L. Poulson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Cave Book
Title | The Cave Book PDF eBook |
Author | Emil Silvestru |
Publisher | New Leaf Publishing Group |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780890514962 |
DISCOVER JUST HOW LONG IT REALLY TAKES FOR A CAVE TO FORM
The Cave
Title | The Cave PDF eBook |
Author | José Saramago |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2003-10-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547537980 |
An unassuming family struggles to keep up with the ruthless pace of progress in “a genuinely brilliant novel” from a Nobel Prize winner (Chicago Tribune). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices. Marçal works there as a security guard, and Cipriano drives him to work each day before delivering his own humble pots and jugs. On one such trip, he is told not to make any more deliveries. People prefer plastic, apparently. Unwilling to give up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls. Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds, and Cipriano and Marta set to work—until the order is cancelled and the penniless trio must move from the village into The Center. When mysterious sounds of digging emerge from beneath their new apartment, Cipriano and Marçal investigate; what they find transforms the family’s life, in a novel that is both “irrepressibly funny” (The Christian Science Monitor) and a “triumph” (The Washington Post Book World). “The struggle of the individual against bureaucracy and anonymity is one of the great subjects of modern literature, and Saramago is often matched with Kafka as one of its premier exponents. Apt as the comparison is, it doesn’t convey the warmth and rueful human dimension of novels like Blindness and All the Names. Those qualities are particularly evident in his latest brilliant, dark allegory, which links the encroaching sterility of modern life to the parable of Plato’s cave . . . [a] remarkably generous and eloquent novel.” —Publishers Weekly Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Into the Planet
Title | Into the Planet PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Heinerth |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2019-08-20 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0062691562 |
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today—and one of the very few women in her field—Into the Planet blends science, adventure, and memoir to bring readers face-to-face with the terror and beauty of earth’s remaining unknowns and the extremes of human capability. Jill Heinerth—the first person in history to dive deep into an Antarctic iceberg and leader of a team that discovered the ancient watery remains of Mayan civilizations—has descended farther into the inner depths of our planet than any other woman. She takes us into the harrowing split-second decisions that determine whether a diver makes it back to safety, the prejudices that prevent women from pursuing careers underwater, and her endeavor to recover a fallen friend’s body from the confines of a cave. But there’s beauty beyond the danger of diving, and while Heinerth swims beneath our feet in the lifeblood of our planet, she works with biologists discovering new species, physicists tracking climate change, and hydrogeologists examining our finite freshwater reserves. Written with hair-raising intensity, Into the Planet is the first book to deliver an intimate account of cave diving, transporting readers deep into inner space, where fear must be reconciled and a mission’s success balances between knowing one’s limits and pushing the envelope of human endurance.
Discovery in the Cave
Title | Discovery in the Cave PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Dubowski |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2011-04-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 030777158X |
This amazing true adventure story about the discovery of the Lascaux Cave will have young readers feeling that they've discovered something pretty special, too! In 1940, four teenage boys and a dog dropped themselves into a hole in the forest floor. Using a flaming grease gun as a torch, they ventured deep underground, eventually coming to a huge cave, the walls of which were covered with life-size paintings of animals. Whole herds of horses! Deer with horns as big as tree branches! Giant bison! The boys were amazed by their discovery. They'd stumbled upon the world's finest examples of prehistoric painting! Perfect for classroom use, this Step 4 Step into Reading book is realistically illustrated by award-winning artist Bryn Barnard.
The Book of the Cave of Treasures
Title | The Book of the Cave of Treasures PDF eBook |
Author | E. a. Budge Budge |
Publisher | Cosimo, Inc. |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1596053356 |
And in the days of Nimrod, the mighty man (or giant), a fire appeared which ascended from the earth, and Nimrod went down, and looked at it, and worshipped it, and he established priests to minister there, and to cast incense from it. From that day the Persians began to worship fire...-from "The Fourth Thousand Years"One of the most prolific and respected Egyptologists of the Victorian era, Budge here offers his translation of the 4th-century A.D. Syrian text commonly known as "the Cave of Treasures," a history of the world from the Creation to the crucifixion of Christ and considered by some to be an apocryphal book of the Bible. Budge's extensive notes, linking the work to other ancient writings, as well as the numerous illustrations, make this unusual work, first published in 1927, an excellent resource for students of ancient civilizations and comparative mythology.SIR E. A. WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was curator of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. Among his many works of translation and studies of ancient Egyptian religion and ritual is his best-known project, The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
The Cave
Title | The Cave PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Hodgson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780711247031 |
In een grot zit een klein diertje dat nooit naar buiten komt. Buiten de grot wacht een hongerige wolf die van alles probeert om het kleine diertje naar buiten te lokken. Misschien dat het met een donut met spikkels lukt? Prentenboek met kleurrijke, humoristische illustraties. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.