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Author: Merrill Gilfillan Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803271074 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 212
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The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska?s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid?stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled?in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a cafä in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota. These are some of the things that catch Merrill Gilfillan?s eye and ear in this radiant collection of essays. ø Written with a poetic economy that often attains grandeur, Magpie Rising is an exhilarating tour of the Great Plains?its geography, wildlife, history, mythology, and food, its vast spaces and weirdly synchronous time. This is nature writing at its most evocative and insightful.
Author: Merrill Gilfillan Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803271074 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska?s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid?stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled?in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a cafä in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota. These are some of the things that catch Merrill Gilfillan?s eye and ear in this radiant collection of essays. ø Written with a poetic economy that often attains grandeur, Magpie Rising is an exhilarating tour of the Great Plains?its geography, wildlife, history, mythology, and food, its vast spaces and weirdly synchronous time. This is nature writing at its most evocative and insightful.
Author: Darryl Jones Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: 9780868406688 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 188
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Wherever people live in Australia, magpies tend to be found there, too. These very familiar birds are one of our most loved and admired wild birds. Yet, during the breeding season, many magpies become extremely aggressive toward people, sometimes causing serious injury or distress, especially to children. The fact that this is a very common, well loved yet sometimes dangerous neighbor makes solving the magpie-human conflict very complicated. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive guide to everything that is known about this bird, why it attacks, and what we can do about it.
Author: Merrill Gilfillan Publisher: Big Earth Publishing ISBN: 9781555662271 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 148
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In this new book detailing his travels through the American Great Plains, author Merrill Gilfillan continues to elucidate for us, and add to our appreciation of, one of the most ignored and misunderstood areas of our vast American landscape. Like few American writers, Gilfillan has a deep feeling for, and understanding of the western grasslands, which give both dignity and a deep historical sense to our sometimes forgotten heartland.Gilfillan's sense of the land encompasses the plants, wildflowers, and small creatures; the birds that he writes such wonderfully detailed descriptions about; the rivers, watering holes, and butteframed vistas; and, very importantly, the legacy of the Plains tribes of Native Americans who loved this land and fashioned myth and legend about it. By overlaying these myths onto the modern plains landscape, Gilfillan invokes a poignant sense of loss, yet we are also ennobled by the profound sense of the landscape that his vision imparts to us. Gilfillan is a tour guide like no other. His readers are given lovely, lingering descriptions of the overlooked and forgotten, the out-of-the-way and underfoot.
Author: Ellen Datlow Publisher: Start Publishing LLC ISBN: 1597806447 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 737
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***One of Publishers Weekly's ""Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018""*** A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders. For more than three decades, editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow, winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, has had her finger on the pulse of the horror genre, introducing readers to writers whose tales can unnerve, frighten, and terrify. This anniversary volume, which collects the best stories from the first ten years of her annual The Best Horror of the Year anthology series, includes fiction from award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Neil Gaiman, Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction―Ellen Datlow Lowland Sea―Suzy McKee Charnas Wingless Beasts―Lucy Taylor The Nimble Men―Glen Hirshberg Little America―Dan Chaon Black and White Sky―Tanith Lee The Monster Makers―Steve Rasnic Tem Chapter Six―Stephen Graham Jones In a Cavern, in a Canyon―Laird Barron Allochthon―Livia Llewellyn Shepherds’ Business―Stephen Gallagher Down to a Sunless Sea―Neil Gaiman The Man from the Peak―Adam Golaski In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos―John Langan The Moraine―Simon Bestwick At the Riding School―Cody Goodfellow Cargo―E.Michael Lewis Tender as Teeth―Stephanie Crawford & Duane Swierczynski Wild Acre―Nathan Ballingrud The Callers―Ramsey Campbell This Stagnant Breath of Change―Brian Hodge Grave Goods―Gemma Files The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine―Peter Straub Majorlena―Jane Jakeman The Days of Our Lives―Adam L. G. Nevill You Can Stay All Day―Mira Grant No Matter Which Way We Turned―Brian Evenson Nesters―Siobhan Carroll Better You Believe―Carole Johnstone About the Authors Acknowledgment of Copyright About the Editor
Author: Merrill Gilfillan
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Author: Merrill Gilfillan![La Gazza Ladra. The Thieving Magpie, a semi-serious opera [by G. M. S. C. Gherardini.] Authorized edition. Ital.&Eng PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/r3_pxT712u0C?fife=w80-h100)
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