Get Book The Poetry of Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke Pdfįor the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke's major poetic works. This remarkable retelling of the story of the peppered moth is the perfect introduction to natural selection and evolution for children. In a beautiful landscape changed by humans how will one little moth survive? A clever picture book text about the extraordinary way in which animals have evolved, intertwined with the complication of human intervention. Along come people with their magnificent machines which stain the land with soot. “This is a story of light and dark.” Against a lush backdrop of lichen-covered trees, the peppered moth lies hidden. Powerful and visually spectacular, Moth is the remarkable evolution story that captures the struggle of animal survival against the background of an evolving human world in a unique and atmospheric introduction to Darwin's theory of Natural Selection.
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