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The Rain Forest Storybook Rosalind Kerven

The Rain Forest Storybook By Rosalind Kerven

The Rain Forest Storybook by Rosalind Kerven


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This is a challenging, important and highly readable collection of traditional stories, which brings alive the human voices behind a major environmental tragedy. It will take children on a fascinating journey to meet some of the peoples who live in the world's disappearing rain forests. It also contains a wealth of factual information about the original forest peoples' ways of life.

The Rain Forest Storybook Summary

The Rain Forest Storybook: Traditional Stories from the Original Forest Peoples of South America, Africa and South-East Asia by Rosalind Kerven

This is a challenging, important and highly readable book, which brings alive the human voices behind a major environmental tragedy. It will take children on a fascinating journey to meet some of the peoples who live in the world's disappearing rain forests. Readers will share their traditional stories, absorbing many new ideas about the natural world, their fellow human beings - and even about themselves. They will travel to the Amazon to hear about the mysterious transformations of Jaguar-Man; and then to central Africa to discover what happened when the Most Beautiful Song in the Forest was destroyed. The book also contains a wealth of factual information about the original forest peoples' ways of life.

Table of Contents

About this book; THE FOREST PEOPLES OF SOUTH AMERICA; Jaguar-Man; Gifts from the River; Bumblebee Spat; Us and You; The Old Sun; The Magic Canoe; THE FOREST PEOPLES OF AFRICA; Fire and the Forest Lord; The Most Beautiful Song in the Forest; The Company of Chimpanzees; The Making of the Palm Trees; What a Terrible Life in the Forest!; THE FOREST PEOPLES OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA; The Forest is His; The Superman of Sarawak; Never Laugh at Animals; Pig Power, Python Power; The Women's Revenge; Stolen Goods; Sources

Additional information

GOR013614471
9780521435338
0521435331
The Rain Forest Storybook: Traditional Stories from the Original Forest Peoples of South America, Africa and South-East Asia by Rosalind Kerven
Used - Like New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
19940421
80
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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