Böcker av David Ellis

"What to make of the British?" is a question that puzzled Stendhal throughout his whole life. In this new work, which is both a biography and an exercise in cultural history, David Ellis brings to bear on the issues it raises much new and unfamiliar information.

This volume provides a study of the literary form of the biography.

David Ellis and Howard Mills challenge the automatic relegation to secondary status suffered by the works included here and suggest a radical reassessment of Lawrence's literary profile of how his writings relate to one another and of where his greatest power and originality lie.

This book documents a quest to determine if a flock of cranes could be trained to follow a truck on a long-distance migration and arrive wild enough to survive after release. This fast-moving, and often humorous, odyssey describes the training of tiny crane chicks and then the truck-led convoy of the grown birds on a bone-jarring, backroad migration over the mountains and across the deserts of Arizona. David Ellis'' cranes and his team of unshaven, obsessively dedicated ''craniacs'' suffer collisions with powerlines, eagle attacks and close calls with an array of trains, trucks and cars. The mood of this true adventure story varies from playful to mournful as the wonder and harshness of nature imprints the journey''s outcome.

David Ellis' Edgar Award-winning debut delivers an audaciously inventive thriller, from tantalizing first page to final double-twist

David Ellis sets out to resolve the meaning behind the 'spots of time' in the Prelude. Since the passages which concern him deal with very private moments in Wordsworth's life and have an interest which is largely psychological, he considers how far a knowledge of Freud might be relevant to their understanding.

Topics covered include: Crane Biology; General Husbandry; Egg and Semen Production; Incubation and Hatching; Veterinary Techniques for Rearing Crane Chicks; Behaviour Management; Imprinting, Attachment, and Behavioural Development in Cranes; Reproductive Physiology; Medicine and Surgery; Genetic Management; Records; Special Techniques; Artificial Insemination; Cryopreservation; Sex Determination; Reintroduction Techniques; Flight Restraint; Predator and Pest Management; Facilities; Ecology, Status, and Conservation.