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  • Infant's Cabinet of Birds & Beasts

    • 12 Oct 2011
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  • an inquiry into the psychic powers of ants and other insects

    • 26 Aug 2011
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  • Blue Light of Lago Carrera

    • 15 Aug 2011
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    "This monograph celebrates the most unusual landscape in central Chilean Patagonia, the marble caverns of Lago Carrera. The surreal beauty of this unique corner of Patagonia has won it the designation, Santuario de la Naturaleza, (a protected Nature Sanctuary) from the Chilean government. These are the slot canyons of the far South. The color palette is different but the magic is similar, and just as strong.

    The incredible set of pictures has been captured by landscape photographer and environmentalist, Linde Waidehofer, 67, from Colorado, USA.

    'It is the water that formed the unique shapes of the marble walls,' explained Ms Waidehofer in her book on the caverns, Blue Light.
    'Originally great ice-fields blocked the western end of the lake - today its glacier-fed waters drain into the Pacific Ocean.
    'Geologists have a simple explanation for the breath-taking blue of this giant lake.
    'They talk of finely ground glacial silt which makes the water an unearthly blue and crystal clear.
    'These waters are magic.'"

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    Linde Waidhofer has been charging $5.00 for most of her eBOOKs. But her PayPal shopping card system per book was too complex and time-consuming. So now she would like to try something different. You can download any of these eBOOKs and enjoy them, without paying. But after you have looked at them, if you feel they are special, and worth something to you, then we'd like to ask you to pay something via the PayPal DONATE button — it's up to you. (And any amount you send goes directly to Linde Waidhofer, period.)

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    But Linde's Unknown Patagonia eBOOK is an exception. Please, do not send a penny for that one. Linde wants as many people as possible to see it, and learn about this rare, beautiful, and potentially threatened region. So help her spread the word. Enjoy her Unknown Patagonia eBOOK, then share it with as many people as you can. Both Linde and Western Eye Press believe that the more people learn about this amazing landscape, the easier it will be to try to protect it. This is breathtaking photography in the service of a grand cause. Thanks! 

    UNKNOWN PATAGONIA, Chile's Secret South
    by Linde Waidhofer, eBOOK edition in PDF format.
    Click the book image to download the eBOOK.

     

     

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  • The Swiss family Robinson : in words of one syllable

    • 15 Aug 2011
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  • Goody Two-Shoes

    • 13 Jul 2011
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    "FARMER MEANWELL was at one time a very rich 
    man. He owned large fields, and had fine flocks of
    sheep, and plenty of money. But all at once his good for-
    tune seemed to desert him. Year after year his crops failed,
    his sheep died off, and he was obliged to borrow money to
    pay his rent and the wages of those who worked on the
    farm.

    At last he had to sell his farm, but even this did not bring
    him in money enough to pay his debts, and he was worse off
    than ever.

    Among those who had lent money to Farmer Mean well 
    were Sir Thomas Gripe, and a Farmer named Graspall." 

    The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a little children's story published by John Newbery in London in 1765. The story popularized the phrase "goody two-shoes", often used to describe an excessively virtuous person.
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  • The Spirit of Christmas

    • 11 Dec 2010
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    The spirit of Christmas by Henry Van Dyke. 
    Published 1909 by Scribner in New York .

     Table of Contents :

    A dream-story: The Christmas angel. 
    A little essay: Christmas-giving and Christmas-living.
    A short Christmas sermon: Keeping Christmas.
    Two Christmas prayers: A Christmas prayer for the home: A Christmas prayer for lonely folks.

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