A Modest Proposal

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Wandelgids - Reisgids The Mountain Hut Book | Cicerone

This book is a celebration of mountain huts, showcasing the the sheer variety and sometimes quirky nature of these buildings that allow walkers, trekkers and climbers to access remote corners of the mountains. Packed with entertaining stories that bring the places and people to life, it contains descriptions of the author's favourite huts in the Alps, along with suggestions for hut-to-hut tours of 3-13 days duration, including the Tour of Mont Blanc. It also traces the history of huts and how they have evolved from the most primitive of shelters to the often purpose-built, eco-friendly buildings of today. For the uninitiated, it unravels some of the mystery of huts and explains how to use them and what facilities to expect. Above all, it illustrates the way in which mountain huts can be truly sociable places, where like-minded people can spend a night or two in the most magical of locations and share a love of wild places. Reviews: [This book is] practical, interesting, and deserves a…

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage BDS Art Scale Statue 1/10 Venom 30 cm

As if he were smiling, the muscular figure with slimy black skin shows its frighteningly sharp teeth. Exposing his long tongue and with his eyes closed, he focuses on a goal to promote his twisted sense of justice by eliminating criminals to protect his city. On top of a building rubble base, Iron Studios presents the statue Venom - BDS Art Scale 1/10 - Venom: Let There Be Carnage, featuring the symbiote anti-hero in its cinematic version. Derived from a comet full of symbiotic life forms and discovered by a space probe from a bioengineering corporation called the Life Foundation, an alien merges in symbiosis with investigative journalist Eddie Brock to survive, thus creating, from that union the monstrous being who introduces himself as Venom. As part of an invasion force that sought new worlds for the symbiotes to take over and feed on, the creature and Brock end up creating a deep bond and together decide to help protect Earth from the invasion of the alien species. After completing…

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Noordereiland-tekeningen (Hardback)

Situated in the middle of the river Maas, between the northern and southern parts of Rotterdam, Noordereiland is shaped like a typical riverboat. Bart Lodewijks trekked from its western to its eastern end, making his drawings in chalk on commercial buildings, ship cabins, quay walls, houses, and steel pipes. He then wrote a poetic account of the life he encountered on the island, published in three parts. His presence as an outsider there elicited both questions and stories from the island's inhabitants; snapshots of trust and distrust. Although wind and rain will inevitably erase the artist's traces on the island, through this publication it becomes permanently anchored in memory.

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Natuurgids a Naturalist's guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka | John Beaufoy

Handzame gids met duidelijke foto's van 278 vogels uit Sri Lanka. A photographic identification guide to 278 bird species covering the most commonly seen in Sri Lanka is an ideal, portable guide for residents and visitors alike, written by an experienced birder with a track record for writing to a popular audience. The author’s top quality photographs are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, plumage, distribution, habits and habitat. The species accounts cover 75 of the 82 families of birds recorded in Sri Lanka and distinguish between highly scarce migrants and vagrants to explain what a realistic and good ‘country list’ and ‘trip list’ would be for residents and visitors respectively. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne is one of Sri Lanka’s most high profile wildlife personalities. In the words of British TV Naturalist Bill Oddie, no single individual has done so much to brand a country for its wildlife. A graduate from Imperial College, London, he h…

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A Rembrandt invention (Paperback)

A distinguished black man kneels on a riverbank before a bearded white man in robes, with the air of a prophet. What could a depiction of this scene be other than the well-known story from chapter 8 of The Acts of the Apostles? No Dutch notary of the seventeenth century hesitated in identifying the subject of a painting with this motif as the baptism by Philip of an Ethiopian official called a moor, a eunuch or a chamberlain. On the road from Jerusalem to Gaza, he becomes convinced of the divinity of Christ and is brought into the faith by an envoy of the Lord. The identification was so obvious that it does not seem to need further interrogation. Yet, as Gary Schwartz shows in this fascinating, concise study, a closer look is very revealing. The text of Acts, which specifies that both men went into the water, and does not say that the eunuch kneeled or even that he was black, is not followed closely by any Dutch artist of the seventeenth century. Rembrandt was one of those who took

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Reisverhaal - Natuurgids A Vulture Landscape | Ian Parsons

A Vulture Landscape is more than just a book about vultures, in the same way that these majestic flyers are more than just birds. Vultures are a crucial part of many of the world's ecosystems, and without these specialist environmental cleansers the ecosystems wouldn't work properly. A calendar year in the lives of these gargantuan raptors is explored as they live, breed, feed and fly with effortless ease across the skies of the vulture landscape that is Extremadura in central Spain.There are four species of vulture in Europe, and a fifth that is becoming more of a regular visitor as its own global population plummets. The serious conservation issues faced on a day-to-day basis by these species, and their relatives spread across the globe, are explored, issues that in many cases threaten their very survival. However, this book is a celebration of the vulture and the landscape in which it reigns. Using the latest science, his keen eye and his passion for the birds themselves, the autho…

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Vogelgids A Field Guide to the Birds of Mongolia | John Beaufoy

A Field Guide to the Birds of Mongolia is a fully comprehensive field guide to the 521 officially recorded bird species of Mongolia. The species are clearly illustrated in over 154 plates, showing plumage variation between sexes, seasons and age classes, as well as the upperside and underside of birds in flight. Common, scientific and Mongolian names are given for each species. The main identifying features of each species are described and key facts cover habitat, identifying features and voice. Distribution maps provide an at-a-glance view of where and when the birds can be found. The book also includes information on the geography and major habitats of Mongolia. Dorjlkhagvajantsan Ganbold is an ornithologist and professional illustrator. Born in a small town in the Khentii mountain range of eastern Mongolia, Dorj grew up birdwatching in the beautiful Kherlen river valley and Khurkh-Khuiten wetlands, leading his first classes in bird illustration in early high school. While at the…

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Reisverhaal Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes | Robert Louis Stevenson

In 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson escaped from his numerous troubles--poor health, tormented love, inadequate funds--by embarking on a journey through the Cévennes in France, accompanied by Modestine, a rather single-minded donkey. The notebook Stevenson kept during this time became Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, a highly entertaining account of the French and their country. The Amateur Emigrant describes his travels to and around America: the crowded weeks in steerage, the cross-country train journey. Filled with sharp-eyed observations, it brilliantly conveys Stevenson's perceptions of America and the Americans. Together, these writings reveal as much about the traveler as the places he travels to.

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A year drenched in blood (Paperback)

Hitler talked about his 'Fortress Europa', but it was a rampart 'without a roof.' Above all the western allied air eet relentless bombed Nazi-Germany. After the failed battle at Kurks in 1943, the allied landings in Normandy and the collapse of army group 'Mitte' in 1944, it was clear that Hitler lost the war on military and production technical district. Nevertheless the German people fought on. This book describes the different aspects of '1945, a year drowning in blood'. Hitler focused in this final phase on the eastern front, cause the battle against what he called Jewish-Bolshevism was his priority until the bitter end.

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Vogelgids a Naturalist's guide to the Birds of Myanmar | John Beaufoy

A Naturalist’s Guide to the Birds of Myanmar is an introductory photographic identification guide to 280 birds found in the most frequently visited parts of Myanmar, with a further 100 related species referred to in the descriptions. The selection covers widespread, endemic and near-endemic species, as well as species that are rare and threatened in other parts of Asia but significant in Myanmar. High quality photographs from one of Myanmar’s top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers geography and climate, vegetation, opportunities for naturalists and the main sites for viewing the listed species. Also included is an all-important checklist of all of the birds of Myanmar encompassing, for each species, its common and scientific name as well as its vernacular name, its status in each state as well as its global IUCN status. Thet Zaw Naing is a b…

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