From passing the ultimate human test (a cocktail party) to acting in a stage play about the history of civilization, this is a story of human frailty...told by a talking gorilla.
This exhilarating collection of poems migrates from Tennessee, up the inside passage of Alaska before turning sharply south through Costa Rica and Brazil’s Ilhabela. Along the way, the feral world beckons and personal ghosts need careful negotiation.
Take one classic optical illusion, one large measure of fun and one valuable lesson about right and wrong and you have one highly re-readable read-aloud for kids. Is it a duck or is it a rabbit? You decide!
Revering and stalking in equal measure, Buddy Levy explores the complex and controversial relationship between himself, the hunter, and the hunted, the “gorgeous, complicated strong-flying” chukar partridge.
Colonial Cairo. A dead dog in a Coptic tomb. A dancing dervish stabbed before an English MP’s niece. Escalating religious and political unrest. The Mamur Zapt investigates.
Inhabiting the twin realms of literary theory and scientific exploration, Daisy Hildyard hypothesizes the new duality of humankind: our corporeal self and our imprint in the outer ecosystem.
The children sort the garbage that washes up on the shore and feed it to the pigs. So when a boy in a barrel arrives in a similar fashion they're not quite sure what to do.