a true adventure in New York City with wildlife artist, Charles R. Knight, who loved saber-tooth cats, parties at the Plaza, and people and animals of all stripes
Kerley, Barbara
2018
Young Rhoda enjoys visiting the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park Zoo, and other places with her beloved grandfather, the famous wildlife artist, Charles R. Knight.
The author writes of his Jewish childhood growing up in Munich in the 1930s, where Adolf Hitler was his neighbor. Describes the Nazi rise to power, and how his life became a nightmare as his family struggled to survive.
Presents two texts by American writer Henry David Thoreau: "Walden," in which he offers his philosophy of life and observations of nature gleaned from a year of solitary living in a cabin on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, and "Civil Disobedience," a treatise on nonviolent resistance and protest.
The author provides an account of his experiences after he agreed to take a herd of "rogue" wild animals into his game reserve in South Africa that were otherwise going to be exterminated.
Philip Gulley reminisces about his childhood in Danville, Indiana, discussing his family, friends, concerns, school, and the citizens of the small town.
Thoreau stresses the importance of a quiet reflective life and the rewards of a non-materialistic existence in "Walden" and discusses his belief in nonviolent protests against an unjust government in "On the duty of civil disobedience".
Looks at the life and career of celebrated twentieth-century photojournalist Robert Capa, with a focus on his Paris studio which he used as a global platform for his photography.
The author describes how he first lived in a yurt in the New Mexico desert as a young man, and years later how he and his wife built an off-the-grid, energy-efficient, straw bale house in Vermont.
