Nicholas Evans

The Horse Whisperer

Helen Ross is a 29-year-old biologist, sent into a hostile place to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. She struggles for survival and for self-esteem, embarking on a love affair with the 18-year-old son of her most powerful opponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder.

The Loop

In the 1960s, Tommy Bedford has the magnificent luck of escaping boarding school and moving to Hollywood to live with his older sister, rising ingenue Diane Reed, and her beau, suave cowboy actor Ray Montane. For a time, life is full and glamorous. But Hollywood has a darker side, and one day a shocking and deadly confrontation forces Diane and Tommy to flee. Decades later, Tom Bedford has retreated into the isolated wilds of Montana. His biggest secret has corroded his life and ruined his marriage. Only when Danny, Tom's estranged son, is charged with murder while serving in Iraq is Tom finally forced to reckon with his demons. As he fights to save the son he has let slip away, Tom must confront the violence in his own past-and learn the true meaning of bravery.

The Brave

When a murder suspect's body is found frozen in the ice of a remote mountain creek, the subsequent investigation poses unsettling questions about how a promising young woman from a loving family could engage in acts of killing and ecoterrorism. Reprint.

The Divide

Bernhard Robben

Der erfolgreichste Roman der letzten Jahre jetzt erstmals im Taschenbuch: Man nennt ihn den Pferdeflüsterer: Tom Booker, den Einzelgänger, der es wie kein anderer versteht, kranke und verstörte Pferde zu heilen. Auch Annie hofft, daß er ihrer Tochter Grace und deren Pferd Pilgrim mit seinen magischen Fähigkeiten helfen kann, ein schweres Unfalltrauma zu überwinden. Die Begegnung mit dem Einzelgänger Tom Booker wird das Leben beider Frauen jedoch für immer verändern...

Roman

Der Pferdeflüsterer

Mannen som kunde tala med hästar

Als een troep wolven het vee van enkele boeren in de Rocky Mountains bedreigt, wordt een jonge biologe aangesteld om de wolven te beschermen, wat voor het gezin van de leider van de boeren grote gevolgen heeft.

De wolvenlus

Una innocente cavalcata all'alba per salutare la prima neve si trasforma in un incubo per la giovane Grace. La caduta, il terribile schianto con il camion, la perdita di una gamba, le ferite forse incurabili riportate dal suo cavallo Pilgrim: in una manciata di minuti una sequenza di eventi ingovernabili trasforma l'esistenza della piccola cavallerizza rubandole la speranza e la voglia di vivere. L'incrollabile fiducia e determinazione della madre Annie, la capacità di Tom di "parlare tra sussurri" all'animo di uomini e cavalli restituiranno a una ragazzina segnata nel corpo e nel cuore la forza di guarire, e a una donna forte ma confusa il senso di un'esistenza dimenticata. Un'avventura spirituale, nella cornice di una natura maestosa e benevola, capace di assorbire e medicare i dolori dell'uomo. Da questo libro - uno dei più grandi successi editoriali internazionali degli ultimi anni - l'omonimo film diretto e interpretato da Robert Redford.

L'uomo che sussurrava ai cavalli

Nadat een Amerikaans meisje en haar paard bij een ongeluk ernstig gewond zijn geraakt, roept haar moeder de hulp in van de eigenaar van een paardenkliniek.

De paardenfluisteraar

Insieme con i lupi

Set against the backdrop of the American West and the wilds of Africa, The Smoke Jumper is an epic story of friendship, passion and honour that charts three people's quest for happiness and self-discovery. Evans is also the author of The Horse Whisperer.

The Smoke Jumper

El Hombre que susurraba a los caballos

W petli

The fire that was to change so many lives started with a single shaft of lightning that struck a mountain ridge on a still and moonless night. The woman who camped nearby with her group of troubled teenagers slept on and heard nothing. Until the deadly inferno engulfed the mountain, and into the flames leaped The Smoke Jumper. His name is Connor Ford and he braves he the flames to save the woman he loves but cannot have, for Julia Bishop is the partner of his closest friend, Ed Tully. Julia loves them both but the tragedy on Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them and burns a brand on all their hearts. In the wake of the fire, Connor travels to the world's worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but not happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, when he must walk through fire again ...

Hans Kooijman

Het keerpunt

The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result. Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our collective intellectual heritage Questions why such linguistic diversity exists in the first place, and how can we can best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, and draws on a wealth of vivid examples from his own field experience Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual ‘last speakers’ and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries

Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

Dying Words

Felix K. Ameka

Alan Dench

Descriptive grammars are our main vehicle for documenting and analysing the linguistic structure of the world's 6,000 languages. They bring together, in one place, a coherent treatment of how the whole language works, and therefore form the primary source of information on a given language, consulted by a wide range of users: areal specialists, typologists, theoreticians of any part of language (syntax, morphology, phonology, historical linguistics etc.), and members of the speech communities concerned. The writing of a descriptive grammar is a major intellectual challenge, that calls on the grammarian to balance a respect for the language's distinctive genius with an awareness of how other languages work, to combine rigour with readability, to depict structural regularities while respecting a corpus of real material, and to represent something of the native speaker's competence while recognising the variation inherent in any speech community. Despite a recent surge of awareness of the need to document little-known languages, there is no book that focusses on the manifold issues that face the author of a descriptive grammar. This volume brings together contributors who approach the problem from a range of angles. Most have written descriptive grammars themselves, but others represent different types of reader. Among the topics they address are: overall issues of grammar design, the complementary roles of outsider and native speaker grammarians, the balance between grammar and lexicon, cross-linguistic comparability, the role of explanation in grammatical description, the interplay of theory and a range of fieldwork methods in language description, the challenges of describing languages in their cultural and historical context, and the tensions between linguistic particularity, established practice of particular schools of linguistic description and the need for a universally commensurable analytic framework. This book will renew the field of grammaticography, addressing a multiple readership of descriptive linguists, typologists, and formal linguists, by bringing together a range of distinguished practitioners from around the world to address these questions.

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