Delia Owens
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English
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
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English
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Delia Owens, author of the best-selling Where the Crawdads Sing, began her career writing riveting real-life adventure and wildlife tales with her husband, Mark Owens. Collected in a single volume for the first time, these three odysseys show how the Owenses' "ingenuity, courage, and accomplishment are beyond exaggeration." (People)
Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Delia and Mark Owens,...
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Publisher
Vintage Español, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
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En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la "chica de la marisma". Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y canaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeros de juego. Kya aprende a descifrar los signos de la naturaleza...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
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English
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In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and-in the end-themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists describe their work in the remote and ruggedly beautiful Luangwa Valley, in northeastern Zambia. There they studied the mysteries of the elephant population's recovery after poaching, discovering remarkable similarities...
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English
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The authors of Secrets of the Sahara battle the elephant poachers of Zambia in this exciting . . . part adventure story, part wildlife tale. Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet, in the 1970s and 1980s, about a thousand of these captivating creatures were slaughtered in Zambia each year, killed for their valuable ivory tusks. When biologists...
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New Environmentalists volume 9
Language
English
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Zambia and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) represent two divergent strategies on environmentalism. Meet people from both countries and learn of the successes, failures, and sacrifices they experienced seeking environmental justice.
