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    Memories of a Sparrow
    Memories of a Sparrow
    Memories of a Sparrow
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    Memories of a Sparrow

    By Nicolae Sfetcu

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    by Henri de la Blanchère, translated by Nicolae Sfetcu

    "I was born in the acclimation garden of the Bois de Boulogne. My mother had made a choice, to build her nest, of the thatched roof covering the house of a huge, but frightful bird called Marabou... Carpet under the crossed thatch, we lived in the greatest abundance; the mash of the foreign birds assembled in this garden provided my father and my tender mother with an inexhaustible mine to feed us, and the prudent sparrow woman had chosen the house of Marabou because of the proximity of the water, which allowed her to find easily at the edge the worms that we urgently need during our young age, especially at the time of growth of our feathers. My nesting companions were two brothers and two sisters, and our parents waited only a few days to show us the use of our wings. Alas! this is easier said than done!
    One night, the wind rose under the pressure of the storm. Carpet in the bottom of our nest, under the wings of our parents, we trembled with repeated lightning flashes and under the hot gusts that shook the house on its foundations. Faint with fear, wet with torrents of water coming through the straws and dripping on our nest, we pressed against each other without even daring to cry."

    CONTENTS:

    I. THE HOSPITALITY OF A MARABOU STORK
    II. MY FIRST FRIEND
    III. THE ELECTION OF THE KING OF BIRDS
    IV. THE BIRD OF THE GOOD GOD
    V. THE GREAT HEATHLANDS
    VI. THE UNKNOWN PEOPLES
    VII. O MISFORTUNE, BE WELCOME, IF YOU COME ALONE!
    VIII. DISCOURAGEMENT
    IX. TOO HAPPY
    X. HOUSEHOLDS ON HOUSEHOLDS
    XI. INGRATE AND COWARD
    XII. LAST FRIEND
    About the translator
    - Nicolae Sfetcu
    - - Contact
    - - Other books
    Publishing House
    - MultiMedia Publishing

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNicolae Sfetcu
    Release dateSep 2, 2019
    ISBN9786060332978
    Memories of a Sparrow
    Author

    Nicolae Sfetcu

    Owner and manager with MultiMedia SRL and MultiMedia Publishing House. Project Coordinator for European Teleworking Development Romania (ETD) Member of Rotary Club Bucuresti Atheneum Cofounder and ex-president of the Mehedinti Branch of Romanian Association for Electronic Industry and Software Initiator, cofounder and president of Romanian Association for Telework and Teleactivities Member of Internet Society Initiator, cofounder and ex-president of Romanian Teleworking Society Cofounder and ex-president of the Mehedinti Branch of the General Association of Engineers in Romania Physicist engineer - Bachelor of Science (Physics, Major Nuclear Physics). Master of Philosophy.

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