eBooks „Vulture“
2 eBooks were found for the search term „Vulture“.
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Imonikhe Ahimie
The Tortoise visits the City in the Sky
or, Greed Goes Before A Fall
- Fairy Tale
- English
- 4456 Words
- Ages 8 and up
- 309
The Tortoise is the most popular character of all the varied characters that abound in the folklore of the Nigerian peoples. The exploits of the Tortoise, whether in all-animal stories or in stories that have an animal-human mix, are without compare in all of the folklore that originates from The Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Indeed, in all of Nigerian folklore, there may be as many Tortoise stories as there are all other stories combined. In different circumstances, the Tortoise is associated with wisdom, selfishness, just low cunning or, even, kindness.
In this adventure, our hero pays a visit to a fabulous city in the Sky in company of the avian folk but things don't work out quite in the way that he might have expected. [more]
Keywords: Africa, Nigeria, Folktale, Tortoise, Birds, Vulture
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Mayne Reid
The Ocean Waifs A Story Of Adventure On Land And Sea
- Adventure
- English
- 112232 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
The "vulture of the sea," borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon an object that has attracted his attention.
It is a raft, with a disc not much larger than a dining-table, constructed out of two small spars of a ship,--the dolphin-striker and spritsail yard,--with two broad planks and some narrower ones lashed crosswise, and over all two or three pieces of sail-cloth carelessly spread. [more]
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