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The Covenant of Water is a 2023 novel by physician and author Abraham Verghese. The book tells the story of a Malayali family living in southwest India, in the Kerala state, with the narrative spanning three generations, from 1900 to 1977. In each generation, some members of the family die by drowning because of an affliction they refer to as ...
Subfossil remains and remnants of the birds that were brought to Europe in the 17th century show that dodos were very large birds, measuring around 62.6–75 cm (24.6–29.5 in) in height. [37] [38] The bird was sexually dimorphic; males were larger and had proportionally longer beaks. Weight estimates have varied from study to study.
The book was a critical success. Walter Clemons in Newsweek declared that it "will become a classic in the literature of survival." [2] Keith Mano of The New York Times Book Review gave the book a "rave" review, stating that "Read's style is savage: unliterary, undecorated as a prosecutor's brief." He also described the book as an important one:
Scientists Have $29 Million “Wild Plan” To Save Birds On Island Where Mice Are Eating Them Alive. Renan Duarte. September 4, 2024 at 4:29 PM. Help is on the way for the birds of Marion Island ...
Jennifer Ackerman (born 1959) is an American author known for her ornithology books, including the bestselling book The Genius of Birds. [1] In that book, Ackerman posits that, contrary to popular metaphors such as "bird brained," birds are actually quite intelligent and think in complex ways. [2] Called a "peppy survey of the science of bird ...
Publication place. Scotland. Pages. 337. ISBN. 9781847080295. Corvus: A Life With Birds by Esther Woolfson is a non-fiction book about a family which adopts various corvids; a rook named Chicken, a magpie named Spike, and a crow named Ziki. [1] [2] It is Woolfson's first book. [3]
This is a list of monster movies, about such creatures as extraterrestrial aliens, giant animals, Kaiju (the Japanese counterpart of giant animals, but they can also be machines and plants), mutants, supernatural creatures, or creatures from folklore, such as Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. These movies usually fall into the science fiction ...
281. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in July 1960 and became instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird has become a classic of modern American literature; a year after its release, it won the Pulitzer Prize.