Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
The Jay The Beech and the Limpetshell - Finding Wild Things With My Kids - cover

The Jay The Beech and the Limpetshell - Finding Wild Things With My Kids

Richard Smyth

Publisher: Icon Books

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

'Generous, moving and alive. A gift' - Tim Dee, author of Greenery
'Intelligent, thought-provoking and always, always interesting' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment
'Smyth writes with warmth and engaging perception about our relationship and understanding of the natural world on our doorsteps' - Jon Dunn, author of The Glitter in the Green
'Fresh and tender and playful' - Patrick Galbraith, author of In Search of One Last Song
Weren't they richer, rock pools, wasn't the seashore busier, when I was a kid?

Richard Smyth had always been drawn to the natural world, but when he became a father he found a new joy and a new urgency in showing his kids the everyday wild things around them. As he and his children explore rockpools in Whitley Bay, or the woods and moors near his Yorkshire home, he imagines the world they might inhabit as they grow up.

Through different objects discovered on their wanderings - a beech leaf, a jay feather, a limpetshell - Smyth examines his own past as well as that of the early natural historians, weaving together history, memoir, and environmentalism to form a new kind of nature writing: one that asks both what we have lost, and what we have yet to find.
Available since: 03/30/2023.
Print length: 224 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Breaking Hip Pain Patterns: Mastering Hip Massage - Mastering Advanced Massage Assessment and Release for the Asymmetrical Hip - cover

    Breaking Hip Pain Patterns:...

    MarkSenzig

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    "Unlock the power of healing touch and revolutionize your massage practice with our expert-led mastering sacroiliac massage class, designed to help you effectively alleviate pain and promote optimal mobility for your clients." 
Please purchase separately a companion video at apple store 
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mastering-hip-massage/id1667450386 
Cracking the Code 
What you're about to witness and make your own are nine effective approaches to unraveling a common pain pattern that, ironically, often goes unrecognized! 
+ About 70% of my clients come in with hip/back imbalances: 
+ More than half of those have already seen other practitioners, unsuccessfully. 
+ Discovery happens during assessments. 
+ The code will be the correct sequence of techniques that pinpoint and ease the real  culprit(s) causing the imbalance. 
Why nine approaches? 
+ Nine client complaints give us enough choices to begin narrowing down the search. 
+ Verbal and visual input reflects recent changes in habitual movements, trauma, stress, and environment. 
+ Body feedback during assessment palpations directs with less guesswork. 
+Fibrotic tissue and unexpected joint fixations, for example, often tell us to slow down, modify, or switch to the nearest technique. 
+ Consider these systematic techniques to be a giant, living flowchart, with enough overlap and process of elimination to find your clients’ unique pathways.
    Show book
  • The Artificial Intelligence Nexus - Bridging the Gap between Man and Machine - cover

    The Artificial Intelligence...

    Jonathan Bennett

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    "The Artificial Intelligence Nexus: Bridging the Gap between Man and Machine" can help you explore the future. Explore in detail how artificial intelligence is changing the world and its potential to be a game changer. 
Have you ever been curious about the workings of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it impacts various industries, such as transportation and healthcare? Are you interested in the possible effects of AI on employment markets or the ethical dilemmas it poses? Our in-depth guide provides information on these urgent issues as well as others. It's a glimpse into the future that addresses artificial intelligence's difficulties and pitfalls while delving into the limits of possibility. 
This book provides a thorough knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI), including its types, uses, history, evolution, ethical considerations, and potential implications for the future. It offers case studies, professional evaluations, and forecasts to assist readers in getting ready for, adjusting to, and creating in an AI-driven society.
    Show book
  • Akashic Record & Gemstone Healing & Reiki With Dry Fasting for Energy Healing - cover

    Akashic Record & Gemstone...

    Green Greenleatherr

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to use Reiki to bring balance to your system so your body can heal itself more efficiently. 
Are you looking for an alternative way of getting healthier? A method that hopefully does not involve any kind of drugs or medication because you are worried about the negative side effects that they bring. Worry no more, there is a not-so-new method of natural healing that has been practiced for hundreds of years in the East, and is now available in the Western hemisphere. Now, even Americans can receive the many benefits of the ancient Japanese practice called Reiki. 
Reiki is an alternative healing technique that does not rely on anything pharmaceutical whatsoever. In fact, it does not even rely that much on physical contact whatsoever. This technique uses the energy emitted by the human body. This technique is used to place some of the practitioners energy to clear the patient’s ki pathways, which are the reasons why the person’s body cannot heal itself. Once the ki pathways are cleared, the body can then start regenerating and healing itself from whatever it is that ails them. 
You will learn more about Reiki when you continue reading this book, like the different forms of Reiki, and the various ailments that it can cure. And you will also learn how to do very basic reiki healing techniques on your own, you will learn how to heal yourself whenever you feel under the weather. 
 
    Show book
  • Desert Oracle - Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest - cover

    Desert Oracle - Volume 1:...

    Ken Layne

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    This program is read by the author, Ken Layne, host of the Desert Oracle radio show. It includes an exclusive first listen to a story from Desert Oracle: Volume 2.The cult-y field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert.For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle is available as an audiobook.Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night.From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.A Macmillan Audio production from MCD Books.
    Show book
  • The Kingdom of Brunel - cover

    The Kingdom of Brunel

    Phil G

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    He would become one of the leading figures of this new technological age, helping to bring the world out of the darkness of the previous centuries, and into a new era of progress. 
 
He was a visionary – an engineer and inventor of unparalleled ingenuity and ambition. With his railway projects he would conquer rivers, mountains, and vast stretches of land. His oceanic projects would produce the largest and most powerful ships the world had ever seen – helping thousands of people to bridge the continents and bringing mankind closer than ever before. His architectural projects would serve as testament to the ingenuity of mankind and would stamp his legacy upon the landscape. But his legacy endures in more than his constructions and inventions – his genius would come to inspire whole generations of new engineers, architects, and scientists – his legacy lives on all around us. 
 
So, join us now, as we trace his story from its very beginnings – join us on an exploration of the life and times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
    Show book
  • The Soul of the White Ant - cover

    The Soul of the White Ant

    Eugene Marais

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    The Soul of the White Ant by Eugène Marais is a passionate, insightful account into the world of termites. It is a meticulously researched expose of their complex, highly structured community life. 
Originally translated into English in 1937, the quality of research remains as relevant today as it was when it was first published. This illuminating account will not only appeal to those with a scientific interest in termites, but will similarly enthrall readers who are new to their captivating world. 
An exceptional feature of his detailed research is the extraordinary psychological life of the termite. While the studies are based in South Africa, the extensive research includes the termites of Magnetic Island, Australia. 
The Soul of the White Ant is part science, part mysticism, a sort of manual of pantheism, and a very personal and careful observation of termites as a life form.
    Show book