It was a long journey home. Mitchell thought he knew what he would learn in his travels. He was a respected young judge for the competitions in the upper settlements and wanted to know more about the Wings far from his home in the Seventh. He was fit and friendly and enjoyed meeting new people. He had the help and support of the pack train that carried goods between the settlements. They were experts on the trail and had contacts along the way. Still, the trip was harder than he thought, and not everything he found was expected or welcome. But he was determined to continue on until he unexpectedly found himself with a Wing of his own. The journey back was very different than walking in the packers train. He was dependent far more on his own abilities and those of the people he had met along the way. Though he was no longer alone, he couldnt rely on his new servant for much. That was what came in while taking on the old one.

Bambi follows the life of the eponymous roe deer, from birth to maturity. Through the years Bambi meets friends, learns how to survive in the forest, finds love, and learns how to survive “He”—the name animals give to man. The novel gives a glimpse into forest life: dangerous, yet awe-inspiring; unforgiving, yet beautiful. Written by Felix Salten and published in 1923 in German, it was translated to English in 1928 by Whittaker Chambers. It is considered one of the first environmental novels, and in 1936 was banned by Nazi Germany for being a parable of the persecution of Jews in Europe. Although adapted into multiple movies, ballets, and plays, Bambi is perhaps most popularly remembered as the subject of Walt Disney’s famous animated feature of the same name. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.

Newly retranslated, this elemental novel about danger, loss, and coming of age in the natural world was the source material for the classic Disney animated film. Bambi first came out in Vienna a hundred years ago, the work of Felix Salten, a Viennese litterateur, journalist, and man about town, and was an immediate success with readers. An English translation soon appeared with an introduction by the Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy and was widely and well reviewed. Later Walt Disney made his famous movie of the book, and as a consequence Salten’s intimate, delicate, poetic, and gripping tale of forest life, a book that captures both the calm and the disquiet of the animal world, has come to be thought of as a children’s book. Bambi is certainly a book that children can enjoy, but it is also a moving and lasting contribution to the literature of the natural world. In Damion Searls’s new translation the fawn Bambi and his mother, the groves and thickets of the forest, the open and dangerous space of the great field, the ever-present threat of the human—the whole intricate weave of life and death that Salten handles so deftly—all come alive for a new generation of readers. Paul Reitter’s afterword discusses the surprising political readings to which Salten’s fable of the woods was subjected.

Mad old colonels who took their trousers off before going elephant hunting, women poachers with terriers sewn into their underskirts, duck shooters chasing their quarry in helicopters - here they all in their vast and until now, long forgotten, eccentricity. Shooting's Strangest Days is a unique collection of stories about the mad, the bad and the truly dangerous to know from more than two hundred years of sporting shooting. Covering everything from delightfully dotty Royals - like George V, who always went shooting with a gun loader deliberately chosen because he looked exactly like the king - to obscure French chamois hunters, South American crocodile stranglers, Russian secret service beaters and suicidal Himalayan goat guides.

With a vibrant, fresh cover and recently refreshed interior illustrations, the complete classic story of Bambi is now available in a paperback bind-up containing both timeless tales of the deer’s woodland life. Bambi’s story begins as a young deer living happily in the forest. But when winter comes, Bambi learns that the woods hold danger. The first snowfall makes food hard to find, so Bambi’s father, a handsome stag, leaves Bambi and his mother alone to roam the forest. Then Man comes with weapons that can wound an animal, making Bambi afraid for himself and his loved ones. But Man can’t keep Bambi from growing into a great stag himself and becoming the prince of the forest. Bambi eventually mates with the doe Faline and becomes a father himself, to twins Geno and Gurri. The pair grow up and navigate the world of the woods. But for young fawns, the wild can be dangerous. And when the family begins to splinter apart, it falls to Bambi to set things right again. This charming paperback bind-up includes: Bambi Bambi’s Children