Heavy Words Lightly Thrown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heavy Words Lightly Thrown write by Chris Roberts. This book was released on 2005. Heavy Words Lightly Thrown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the origins and meanings of nursery rhymes reveals the popular sport behind "Jack Be Nimble" and Humpty Dumpty's identity as a cannon mounted on the walls of a Colchester church.
A Feather in His Hat
A Feather in His Hat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Feather in His Hat write by Sinclair Lewis. This book was released on 1943. A Feather in His Hat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hats
Hats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hats write by Malcolm Smith. This book was released on 2020-01-01. Hats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For such simple garments, hats have had a devastating impact on wildlife throughout their long history. Made of wild-caught mammal furs, decorated with feathers or whole stuffed birds, historically they have driven many species to near extinction. By the turn of the twentieth century, egrets, shot for their exuberant white neck plumes, had been decimated; the wild ostrich, killed for its feathers until the early 1900s, was all but extirpated; and vast numbers of birds of paradise from New Guinea and hummingbirds from the Americas were just some of the other birds killed to decorate ladies’ hats. At its peak, the hat trade was estimated to be killing 200 million birds a year. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was a trade valued at £20 million (over $25 million) a year at the London feather auctions. Weight for weight, exotic feathers were more valuable than gold. Today, while no wild birds are captured for feather decoration, some wild animals are still trapped and killed for hatmaking. A fascinating read, Hats will have you questioning the history of your headwear.
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins: Read & Listen Edition
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins: Read & Listen Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins: Read & Listen Edition write by Dr. Seuss. This book was released on 2013-09-24. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins: Read & Listen Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As topical today as when it was first published in 1938, this book tells of Bartholomew Cubbins (from Caldecott Honor winner Bartholomew and the Oobleck) and his unjust treatment at the hands of King Derwin. Each time Bartholomew attempts to obey the king’s order to take off his hat, he finds there is another hat on his head. Soon it is Bartholomew’s head that is in danger . . . of being chopped off! While The 500 Hats is one of Dr. Seuss’s earliest works, it is nevertheless totally Seussian, addressing subjects that we know the good doctor was passionate about: abuse of power (as in Yertle the Turtle), rivalry (as in The Sneetches), and of course, zany good humor! This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases write by Bartlett Jere Whiting. This book was released on 1977. Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."
