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To escape an assassin, Rachel finds sanctuary in the rainforest, where the most exotic of all creatures walks: Rio. But when he unleashes his secret animal instincts, Rachel fears that her isolated haven could become an inescapable hell...
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If you have Fever you already have this story!.......2007-08-14
This is book #2 in the rainforest (cat people) and is included in the Fever book which has The Awakening and Wild Rain (both cat people stories).
Fyi
This story was entertaining. Rachael running and escapes into the rainforest where she encounters Rio (wild cat). Rachael learns she is part of the feline breed.
Entertaining and well written. Moves right along with two likeable characters.
Derivative Trash.......2007-02-02
This is just a horrible book. The characters are flat, the writing is unimaginative, and the subject is trite.
Excellent.......2007-01-06
I thought that there would be no match for "dark gold." I was completely wrong. Wild rain I think now, would have to be on my top #1 romance book followed by dark gold and conspiracy game. I love the area, the whole animal idea and the characters are exceptional! I would like for more of these to be written!
excellent paranormal read!.......2006-06-12
I'd forgotten how good Crhristine Feehan can be at her best. This was one hot and sexy book, with lots of interesting details and secondary characters to flesh the plot out. I'd have given it 5 stars except for the leg wound thing, which went on far too long. But even given that odd little hitch, it was still a riveting story, and I really liked both the lovers - something I can't always say. Last but not least, the inside front cover pictured the sexiest man I've seen in a long time. Yum!
The One Trick Pony Rides Again.......2006-05-04
I want to like Ms. Feehan, I really do. I loved her novellas in "After Twilight" and "Fantasy" (the story in "Fantasy" is the first setting of these leopard-man tales) but I can't.
I tried, really I've tried, to read her novels but they are all the same. Giant blocks of description that begin the novel as sensual, and end with me taking some Tylenol. The Carpathian ones are more palatable, than this one and her gaslight-the-reader style "Mind Games"
Her plots are all the same with small variations, and this one has Rachel faking her own death to escape her brother. She runs to the jungle and squats in a cabin that appears to be a tree house, yet has running water and other bizarre amenities.
Of course, it belongs too Rio, a 2 dimensional tortured-hero leopard-man with two pet leopards who attack her. They give her a deadly puncture wound on her leg and Rio breaks her wrist.
Gee, how romantic.
On the same page as Rachel is bleeding pus she is also dry-humping Rio. It's disgusting and illogical, the wounds used to delay the first sex scene. And, as a person who's had serious wounds, I can't believe anyone laid out like that would be panting for a man like that, she'd be in too much pain.
But of course she is hot to trot because she's approaching her Han Vol Dan, her first change into a leopard-woman. Rio doesn't tell her because he is an over-controlling alpha male with a perfect body and a shady past that has gotten him cast out of Leopard society.
I can't finish it, it's just so bad. But I can tell you how it will end, because all her frigging books end the same way. Rachel will panic over the change, Rio will soothe her, she will change to escape the bad guys coming for them. Rio will kill her brother and his men, and they will mate. Rachel and Rio, that is.
And because they've found true love, he'll be accepted back into leopard society. The end.
Just don't waste the money on this book. It's overdone setting on a sparse plot and the characters are just flat stereotypes.
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A New Collection of Three Complete Books
The best loved and best-selling author of The Shell Seekers, Rosemunde Pilcher writes compelling stories that resonate with life, love, and family drama. Now an all-new collection brings together three of her bestselling works:
Snow in April; Wild Mountain Thyme; and
Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories. These three titles have combined sales of over two million which makes this dramatically-charged, hardcover volume a sure bet winning fans everywhere. 624 pages.
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Excellent Storytelling.......2007-04-05
These stories are a pleasure to read. You'll smell the flowers and the sea while you take in every single word.
A Pleasure.........2007-03-26
I have never read anything that Mrs.Pilcher wrote that I have not enjoyed.
I recommend all her works to those who love excellent storytelling.
A great way to spend a rainy weekend........1998-03-21
Although not as in-depth as her bigger, later books, these three offerings of Pilcher's offer the same warmth and sense of being there. You can smell the flowers and the sea and the burning peat and feel the damp climate without ever growing cold.
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- A Gem
- silence of the birds
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And No Birds Sing: A True Ecological Thriller Set in a Tropical Paradise
Mark Jaffe
Manufacturer: Barricade Books
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ASIN: 1569801096 |
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A Gem.......2001-02-18
This account of efforts to understand and deal with threatened exotic-caused extinctions on Guam is a gem. The paper back's blurbs focus on Jaffe's "ecological detective thriller." But it's the seamlessness of the book's widely-informed joined elements -- including biographical and political sketches of great pith, accessible population biology, and How Modern Science Works to try to save avian species -- that's most compelling. This deftness in weaving many individually fascinating threads recalled for me Neal Ascherson's astonishing "Black Sea."
The paperback's Index lists only passing references to DDT -- on pages 26, 27 and 72. Because the bad guy is not a chemical, not one of our products. No, he's one of us. And after the paucity and untimeliness of the legislative response to the Guamanian situation had sunk into my consciousness, it was ironic that in the end, an air force base on the island established the 50-acre "environmental reclamation experiment" Jaffe hopes could begin to turn it all around. Like the ending of William Golding's little masterpiece, with the navy warship rescuing the tribe of island-stranded boys from themselves.
silence of the birds.......1998-10-30
My God! You won't find any birds singing in this masterpiece! Rachel Carson has nothing on this guy! The DDT chapter broke my heart!!!
Book Description
The Phantom Stallion's new foal is ready to be born, and River Bend Ranch's own Dark Sunshine is the mother. Samantha couldn't be more excited, and she's sure she can handle the new baby while everyone is gone on the annual cattle drive.
Customer Reviews:
Best one.......2006-10-16
I only need one more book to complete this series ,but so far Rain Dance is my personle fav. book.Any story with baby foal init I will read.
Rain Dance was great!.......2006-02-24
Terri Farley is an awsome author. All of her books are awesome. Rain Dance was no exception. I loved this book. For one I thought Sam would end up going on the cattle drive, I didn't think she would stay to help her mare foal. I also thought that it was exciting when Dark Sunshine (Sunny) had a foal. Then I was suprised how Sunny was treating her filly. I don't want to ruin the rest of the story to those who haven't read this book. All together, I thought this book was one of the best books in the PHANTOM STALLION series. I would recomend this series to anyone who loves horses.*
i love phantom stallion!.......2005-07-05
this book was really cute. i enjoyed the excitement of the new foal, especially because the phantom was his sire. i am excited to see what is in store for tempest through out the series.this was one of the best books of the series, but it was a little short.
Phantom Stallion is a Great Series!.......2005-03-04
I have read the first thirteen of the Phantom Stallion series, and Rain Dance is one of my favorites. Like all the Phantom Stallion books, a lot of different story lines are presented throughout the book. You get to know not only the human characters, but also the horses, each of which have their own personality as well. I really liked the excitement of a foal being born! I highly recommend the Phantom Stallion series for any horse lover!
Another good one.......2004-08-03
Another great book by Terri Farley :)
Maybe the greatest next to Red Feather Filly
It mainly featured Sam and Sunny. Which is cool.
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- mesmerizing and otherworldly
- HUDSON'S OBSURE CLASSIC IS A JEWEL !
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Green Mansions (Dover Books on Literature and Drama)
W. H. Hudson
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Book Description
Modern classic tells the compelling story of Rima, a strange birdlike girl of the jungle, and Abel, the European who falls in love with her. The book owes much of its popularity to the mystic, near-religious feeling that pervades the story and the beauty of Rima's halting, poetic expressions.
Customer Reviews:
mesmerizing and otherworldly.......2006-08-15
This is 1 of my favorite novels!!! WH Hudson's prose is very lush: he pulls you into the hypnotic South American jungle and reveals a strange unforgettable tale of adventure and romance ... so unlike today's stale and predictable "stories." This isnt an easy read ... you'll need lots of time to savor the prose. As others have noted, the ending is underdeveloped (and a disappointment). I dont often buy books, but this 1 is a keeper!!!
HUDSON'S OBSURE CLASSIC IS A JEWEL !.......2004-02-26
This obscure classic is a jewel!I first read it when I was about 10 years old, and I never forgot the love story of Abel, a political refugee from Venezuala and Rima, the last of a race of exotic, mystical, bird-like people.If I could rate Green Mansions past 5 stars, I would use all the stars in our universe to convince you to read it!
Romantic Naturalism.......2004-02-26
Hudson, a noted naturalist during the Romantic/Victorian periods, grew up in the wild Pampas, and this book reflects a fascination with nature that most likely began during his childhood. Themes of civilzation vs. savagery and the untouched beauty of the tropics vs. development are found throughout Green Mansions, but these issues are encased in a love story that holds notes of mystery, fantasy, and romanticism.
While the novel provides a good introduction to the naturalist writings of this period (and a much easier read than most of the more scientific prose being written at the time), I thought that the ending was not as developed as the rest of the book, in addition to being highly unsatisfying. The novel does, however, offer wonderful descriptions of the wild forests of the region, and develops fantastical characters, particularly in the case of Rima, the primary female character.
Romantic and Superiority.......2003-03-06
William Henry Hudson's novel Green Mansions is an exotic romance that takes place in the South American rainforest. The novel is written from the perspective of Abel, a young man who had to leave the city he was living in for political reasons. During his time in the rainforest he meets Rima, who he describes as a bird-like girl, and her grandfather Nuflo. Despite these two, Abel mainly interacts with the Indians with whom he was living before he met Rima and Nuflo. The Indians are mostly referred to as savages.
Green Mansions mainly focuses on the intimation of love and death, and the romanticism of nature versus the disturbing influences of civilization. However, Abel does not see any living creature during his stay in the rainforest as equal to him. He thinks of himself as superior to the Indians, Nuflo, and to Rima as well. He bases his sense of superiority on a better education, a greater intelligence, as well as a better physical condition. This sense of superiority is kept throughout the novel. However, his arrogance is one way to deal with his insecurity about many situations. Abel only seems to feel secure if he sees himself as superior to everybody else. This is the reason why he defines superiority based on the situation. Sometimes superiority is referred to as greater intelligence and in other cases as physical superiority. The way he uses superiority depends on the way it is easier for him to define himself as superior.
Hauntingly Beautiful Tale of the Rain Foest.......2003-01-31
I first read this when I was 13 or 14 and never forgot the story. I just reread it 40 years later while vacationing in Central America, the perfect place for a tale of the rain forest. The language is exquisite - not a quick read, for I wanted to absorb the beauty of the descriptions and details. I recommend this to anyone with an interest in nature, for it is not only a wonderful love story, but also a vivid description of the Venezuelan rain forest and its indigenous people.
Customer Reviews:
Astonishing color pictures from the rain forest.......2002-02-22
A very handsome book, full of beautiful color photographs of neotropical wildlife. Definitely the most captivating picture book about the rain forest that I know of. It made me even more aware of the need to preserve the incredibly rich variety of life forms on our planet.
Product Description
Acclaimed for a "skillful blend of supernatural thrills and romance that is sure to entice reader" (Publishers Weekly), New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan now explores the dark past of a woman on the run - and her darker desires for the only man left she dares to trust... What has she done? With a new identity, a staged death, and a chance to flee the treachery that stalks her, Rachael has escaped from a faceless assassin. Now, thousands of miles from home, under the lush canopy of the rain forest, she's found sanctuary. Where can she hide? In this world teeming with unusual creatures walks the most exotic of them all. His name is Rio. A native of the forest imbued with a fierce prowess, he is something to be desired. Possessed of secrets of his own, he is something to be feared. Whom can she trust? But as Rachael's past looms as oppressively as the heat of the forest, and as Rio unleashes the secret animal instincts that course through his blook, Rachael fears that her isolated haven has become an inescapable hell...
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- IF YOU DON'T READ THIS BOOK YOU HAVE TO..
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Guyana: The Lost El Dorado: My Fifty Years in the Guyanese Wilds
Matthew French Young
Manufacturer: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
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IF YOU DON'T READ THIS BOOK YOU HAVE TO.........1999-10-07
I JUST FINISHED READING THIS BOOK, FOR BY SCHOOL AND TO ME AS A NATURE LOVE THIS WAS THE BEST BOOK I JHAVE READ FOR A WHILE, IT;S DEAL WITH BIODEVESRITY, AND IT,S PEOPLE AS I PUT ON TOP A 5 STAR IT TO ME IT NEEDED IT. GO READ IT IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO BUY IT IT WILL BE AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
THANK YOU
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- Nature Girl
- Romance versus Superiority
- A beautiful, mystical story of adventure and love
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- The green fields of WH Hudson
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Green Mansions (Oxford World's Classics)
W. H. Hudson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the `green mansion' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow. One of the acknowledged masters of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement. First published in 1904 and a best-seller after its reissue a dozen years later, Green Mansions offers its readers a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man.
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Running from a failed conspiracy to overthrow the government, Abel chooses to fulfill a lifelong desire and explore the thick and primitive wilderness surrounding the Orinoco river in Venezuela. Adventure, intrigue, and love await him under the "green mansions" of the impressive woodlands near the mountain of Ytaioa.
Customer Reviews:
Nature Girl.......2006-09-05
This book encompasses the memoirs of Mr. Abel, an educated, middle class, urban dweller from Venezuela, who decides to journey throughout the primative wilderness of Guyana; he is transformed in the process. _Green Mansions_ is a harrowing adventure story, a romance, but is, above all, probably one of the most artistically stylized pieces on nature ever written. Mr. Abel is vulnerable to his new environment's treacherous heat, its indigenous wildlife, the cruelties (as well as the hospitality) of its native peoples, and suffers periods of disease and starvation.
Mr. Abel falls in love with a strange, beautiful, and exceedingly elusive young woman, named Rima, who has a rare affinity with nature and its creatures. Rima, whose mysterious family background figures strongly in the plot, is raised by her grandfather, Nuflo, after her mother dies. Mr. Abel accuses Nuflo of hypocracy, but eventually comes to respect him. Mr. Abel, despite his background and personal attitudes, learns to adapt to and eventually to accept nature on its own terms. As frightening and disturbing as many of the parts of this extraordinary book are, it is never less than mesmerizing.
Romance versus Superiority.......2003-03-14
William Henry Hudson's novel Green Mansions is an exotic romance that takes place in the South American rainforest. The novel is written from the perspective of Abel, a young man who had to leave the city he was living in for political reasons. During his time in the rainforest he meets Rima, who he describes as a bird-like girl, and her grandfather Nuflo. Despite these two, Abel mainly interacts with the Indians with whom he was living before he met Rima and Nuflo. The Indians are mostly referred to as savages.
Green Mansions mainly focuses on the intimation of love and death, and the romanticism of nature versus the disturbing influences of civilization. However, Abel does not see any living creature during his stay in the rainforest as equal to him. He thinks of himself as superior to the Indians, Nuflo, and to Rima as well. He bases his sense of superiority on a better education, a greater intelligence, as well as a better physical condition. This sense of superiority is kept throughout the novel. However, his arrogance is one way to deal with his insecurity about many situations. Abel only seems to feel secure if he sees himself as superior to everybody else. This is the reason why he defines superiority based on the situation. Sometimes superiority is referred to as greater intelligence and in other cases as physical superiority. The way he uses superiority depends on the way it is easier for him to define himself as superior.
A beautiful, mystical story of adventure and love.......2002-10-22
The main male charachter has reason to leave civilization and travels far into South American jungles, meets with native tribes, and finds one which takes him in. They all seem happy with him until his curiosity gets the best of him, and he goes to a 'forbiden forest' so feared by this tribe he becomes ostricised for having been there.
In the second part of this book he befriends a mysterious girl who lives in the forest and seems more farie than human. He finds himself doing things for her which he would have never thought he would do for another person.
This is a clasic love story, intriguing, beautiful, and tragic. This was one of my first introductions to the classics of lliterature, and prompted me to find and read more of classic literature which has greatly enriched the scope of my reading experiences.
A beautifully told tale.......2001-09-18
Those of you who have read Rand Johnson's "Arcadia Falls - A Fable" will find interesting parallels here, albeit in a Victorian idiom, as Hudson presents a moving and mysterious romance against a backdrop of great natural beauty, in this case the South American jungle.
The green fields of WH Hudson.......2001-02-16
JB Priestly wrote a book about time ('Man and Time') and in it he referred to a WH Hudson novel called 'A Crystal Age'. His couple of paragraphs about 'A Crystal Age' stimulated my interest but nowhere could I find the novel he referred to. However, I did find 'Green Mansions' and I have read it several times. It is a beautiful novel with an undertone of darkness (is death the darkness that we all live with during the beauty of life?). Perhaps 'Green Mansions' disappointed me a little after triggering my romantic nerve. I did, however, keep exploring the writings of WH Hudson - 'Long Ago and Far Away', 'The Purple Land', 'Idle Days in Patagonia' and the wonderful 'A Shepherd's Life'.
On a recent trip to the States I visited a small specialist bookshop where it was suggested I might be able to get access to 'A Crystal Age' through abebooks.com. This was great advice. I have just finished reading 'A Crystal Age' and I concur with JB Priestley's assessment. 'A Crystal Age' is worth the effort of pursuing - it is a surprising first-person utopian novel in which Hudson's love of nature does not render him oblivious to the fact that there are downsides in all worlds - all imaginable worlds. Just like the dark shadows in 'Green Mansions'. The end of 'A Crystal Age' is so surprising - I believe very few readers would see what is coming - I certainly didn't as I rushed on towards it. There is a certain illogic to the ending, but there is also something that haunts me continuously. I hope the illogic has not been a contributing factor in this novel's failure to be reprinted. But why else has it not been picked up - I am sure there is a market.
'A Crystal Age' is a stronger less romantic novel than 'Green Mansions', but it is also exceptional for many reasons. I don't hesitate in recommending 'Green Mansions' but I also urge readers to pursue 'A Crystal Age' - it is only a matter of time before I will be re-reading it myself. As for publishers who are looking for books from the past to reprint - give 'A Crystal Age' a look.
Customer Reviews:
Super Hands on book.......2000-06-17
This is a great book for children about third grade level. It does have a few activities that younger kids could do with a little head start. It has great step by step instructions and pictures. Most are things that can be recylcled and are inexpensive items. The ideas don't necessarily have to be related to the rainforest. Just an all around great book for hands on learning.
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