Amazing Animal Adventures at the Poles: Going Wild (Paperback)
Autor Brian Keatingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2005 – vârsta de la 8 până la 13 ani
Join Brian Keating as he describes:
Swimming with the canaries of the ocean in Cunningham Inlet
Playing with minke whales in the Antarctic
"Meeting the superbears of Frobisher Bay
Watching kings in their finest suits on South Georgia Island
Living on the edge in the Antarctic
Each story, told by Keating with boundless energy and enthusiasm, provides details in easily digestible bites and features full-colour
photographs with fact-filled cutlines, a small glossary, and an information sidebar - "Brian's Notes." Also included in the book are an activity to encourage students to have their own backyard adventures, a full-colour world map showing the locations of Keating's wildlife adventures, and an index.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1894856546
Pagini: 48
Dimensiuni: 201 x 251 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE
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Notă biografică
Brian Keating is a keen naturalist, avid outdoorsman, world traveller, intrepid adventurer, and extraordinary spokesperson for the world's wild places and the creatures that inhabit them. Keating's first job with the Calgary Zoo in 1981 was in their education program. Now he is Head of the zoo's Conservation Outreach Department, and responsible for national and international conservation projects, such as the Wechiau Hippo Sanctuary in Ghana, West Africa, and the nature-based eco-tour program that he started in 1983.
Keating has been a weekly guest on CBC Radio Calgary for nearly two decades and has been featured bi-weekly on the Discovery Channel for the past six years. In addition to his full time job at the zoo, Keating is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calgary, a pilot, a scuba diver, and mountaineer. Brian is accompanied on wilderness trips and adventures by his wife, Dee, who is a local Calgary physician.