The proud Terangi makes a final, desperate attempt to escape from unjust imprisonment. As the authorities draw closer, nature intervenes. The skies blacken, the tides rise, the wind snaps through the palm trees and the South Sea island of Manukura is battered by a howling hurricane.
While stopping to admire some of the world’s most amazing trees, the Cat and Co. teach beginning readers how to identify different species from the shape of their crowns, leaves, lobes, seeds, bark, and fruit. Kids will learn about many trees common to North America.
Children Picture Dictionary English-English-Hindi with General Knowledge
This is a bilingual pictorial dictionary for kids. Common English words are defined in both languages with the help of coloured pictures. Second half is on GK with English words for colours, days, months, animals, body parts, insects, birds, time, souds, places, subjects, flowers, fruits, vegetables, sports & games, plants, trees, relations etc translated into Hindi.
Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell. Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared. While you read these words, somewhere in the world people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them?
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess.
