Extinction Club
A Tale of Deer, Lost Books, and a Rather Fine Canary Yellow Sweater
by Robert TwiggerFor one thousand years, the Milu -- an exotic species of deer with the neck of a camel, horns of a stag, feet of a cow, and tail of a donkey -- existed only in the Chinese emperor’s private park in Beijing.
But in the nineteenth century, a Basque missiona.
- First published
- 2010
- Publishers
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Language
- English
About Robert Twigger
Robert Twigger is a British author who has been described as, 'a 19th Century adventurer trapped in the body of a 21st Century writer'. He attended Oxford University and later spent a year training at Martial Arts with the Tokyo Riot Police. He has won the Newdigate prize for poetry, the Somerset Maugham award for literature and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. In 1997, whilst on an expedition in Northern Borneo, he discovered a line of menhirs crossing into Kalimantan. In 1998 He was part of the team that caught the world's longest snake- documented in the Channel 4/National Geographic film and book Big Snake; later he was the leader of the expedition that was the first to cross Western Canada in a birchbark canoe since 1793. Most recently, in 2009-2010, he led an expedition that was the first to cross the 700 km Great Sand Sea of the Egyptian Sahara solely on foot. He has also written for newspapers and magazines such as The Daily Telegraph, Maxim and Esquire, and has published several poetry collections, including one in 2003, with Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing.Robert has published Real Men Eat Puffer Fish (2008), a humorous but comprehensive guide to frequently overlooked but not exclusively masculine pastimes, while his latest novel Dr. Ragab's Universal Language, was published to acclaim in July 2009. Robert now lives in Cairo, a move chronicled in his book Lost Oasis. He has lead several desert expeditions with 'The Explorer School'.Robert has given lectures on the topic of 'Lifeshifting', an approach which emphasises the need to centre one's life around meaning-driven motivation. Drawing on experiences working with indigenous peoples from around the world, he has spoken on 'work tribes' and polymathy. He has also spoken on leadership. Some of these talks have been to companies such as Procter and Gamble, Maersk Shipping, SAB Miller and Oracle computing....
Books
Next Step
Robert Koppel
The next step is the story of a man who reinvents himself through a cast of characters.
Organic Vegetable Gardening
Robert Milne
Growing your own organic vegetables will give you fresher, tastier and more nutritious produce, while doing away with food miles, fossil fuel consumption and unnecessary packaging.
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Robert Harvey
Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
Robert Lafore
Shift Happens!
Robert Holden
Old City Hall
Robert Rotenberg
Nothing Lasts Forever
Robert Steiner
In these three novellas, spouses and lovers are at the edge of themselves, saying the unsayable, doing the undoable, challenging us to keep our eyes open to disintegration and pain.
Biomedical Sciences
Robert Gauvin
This graduate-level textbook focuses on the validation and applicability of clinically relevant biomedical technologies, the market, regulatory aspects, the economic evaluation and the cost-effective pricing of medical devices.
Extreme Nation
Robert Yates
Auditing in an Internet of Things Environment
Robert R. Moeller
A much-needed resource packed with guidelines, standards, and expert insightauditing in an internet of things environment is a guidebook for auditors and controllers in the thick of the technological revolution.
Haunted Sketchbook
Robert Stava
Fly Fishing Houston and Southeastern Texas
Robert H. McConnell
Lessons of Loss
Robert Neimeyer
Lessons of loss explores how we react to loss, both physical and social, and adapt to it.
Entrepreneurship Education : A Global View
Robert H. Brockhaus Snr.
This title was first published in 2001.
Three Roads Back
Robert D. Richardson
50 Greatest Players in Atlanta Braves History
Robert W. Cohen
Compost Science for Gardeners
Robert Pavlis
Environmental Hazards
Robert McCulloch
Classical Philosophers on Literature
Robert Eaglestone
This routledge critical thinker is an introduction to the literary thought of three major classical thinkers: plato, aristotle and longinus.
Netting an Industry - How the American Fishing Industry Was Established
Hitz, Charles Robert, Sr.
Once upon a World
Robert Duncan
Reviews in Ecological Economics, Volume 1
Robert Costanza
The field of ecological economics emerged roughly two decades ago, and is rapidly growing both as a scientific endeavor and as a major guide to policy development.
Maestros and Monsters
Robert Boyers
Regions and the European Community
Robert Leonardi
Warriors and Warships
Robert D. Banks
Retirement Devotional
Robert Laura
Regions and the European Community
Robert Leonardi
The contributions to this volume analyse the role of sub-national institutions in the regional economic development process in the community's less developed countries: greece, ireland, portugal, spain and italy.
Compost Science for Gardeners
Robert Pavlis
Australian Literary Criticism
Ross, Robert L.
Uniquely Normal Manual
Robert Bernstein
Hungarian
Robert Vago
Mary Jane
Robert Ohlund
Mass Fatality and Casualty Incidents
Robert A. Jensen
The first major publication on mass fatality management when it was published in 1999, the new edition of this bestseller is greatly revised and expanded.
Me 262
Forsyth, Robert
Without Restraint
Robert DeLena
Handbuch Industrie 4. 0 und Digitale Transformation
Robert Obermaier
Respiratory Neurobiology
Robert Chen
Flowers
Robert Lucy
Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze
Robert Stam
Mortimer Early Reader : (Munsch Early Reader)
Robert Munsch
Anesthesia and the Classics
Holzman, Robert S.
Murmel, Murmel, Murmel Early Reader
Robert Munsch
36 Islands
Robert Twigger
Final Examination
Robert Sheckley
International Political Economy of Risk
Robert Deuchars
Memoirs of Ambassador J. Graham Parsons
Robert D. Eldridge
Ascent of the Mind to God
St. Robert Bellarmine
King in Yellow Illustrated
Robert William Chambers
Sunflowers Coloring Book for Kids
Robert GREE
Master of Ballantrae Illustrated
Robert Louis Stevenson
Prophets
Robert Jones Jr.
*a new york times bestseller* 'this visionary and deeply evocative debut carves a radiant love story out of the bleakest of landscapes.
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