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Life and Times of a Big River

Author : Peter J. Marchand
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232474
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Life and Times of a Big River written by Peter J. Marchand and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and Times of a Big River weaves together the fascinating cultural and natural history of interior Alaska through the story of a field expedition conducted by 5 biologists in a 4000-square-mile, roadless area of interior Alaska. The expedition was ordered by the United States government following the signing into law of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and was to help decide the fate of a vast area that would ultimately become the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. And yet this is a human story, related through the personal experiencesthe uncertainties, discoveries, accidents, and encounters with othersrecorded by this disparate (and at one point desperate) group of biologists. Weaving in and out of this narrative is an account of the natural and cultural history of the area, told as it related to the expedition and to people living in the bush. The five scientists explore every aspect of the land itself: from fossil tree ferns to rare insects and little-known mammals, deciphering a record of change in a land often thought of as static and monotonous. Against this background the history of both aboriginal and Anglo exploitation and adaptation to a very demanding environment is also told. In the context of the expedition, the natural and cultural history takes on an uncommon relevance and insight. This expedition may well represent the last of its kind, conducted before the explosion of satellite communications and geographic positioning technology forever changed scientific field work in remote regions.

Big River's Daughter

Author : Bobbi Miller
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823427692
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Big River's Daughter written by Bobbi Miller and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by her pirate father on a Mississippi keeler, River is a half-feral river rat and proud of it. When her powerful father disappears in the great earthquake of 1811, she is on the run from buccaneers, including Jean Lafitte, who hope to claim her father's territory and his buried treasure. But the ruthless rivals do not count on getting a run for their money from a plucky slip of a girl determined to find her place in the new order. Filled with down-home humor, raucous hijinks, and one-of-a-kind characters, this historical novel captures the Mississippi River at a time when its denizens were as untamed as its waters.

Big River, Little Fish

Author : Belinda Jeffrey
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702246379
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Big River, Little Fish written by Belinda Jeffrey and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling and cinematic second novel from Belinda Jeffrey, author of Brown Skin Blue. Big River, Little Fish is the highly anticipated second novel from Belinda Jeffrey. Set in South Australia during the 1956 Murray River flood, it tells the story of Tom Downs, a boy trapped between his way of reading the world and the world's way of seeing him. He lives in the town but likes it best down by Old Mother Murray, talking to his best friend, Hannah, and helping the outcasts who live in the shacks on her banks. But there's a big river coming and Tom feels like everything he loves and understands might be swept away and lost. From the moment Tom Downs was born backwards the moment of his mother's death time has held him the wrong way round, like he's caught inside a fractured story. But the thing about the Murray River rising, the thing about Tom's town flooding, and the thing that takes him by surprise is not what Old Mother Murray takes away, but who she brings back. Big River, Little Fish is a compelling tale of a boy growing up into manhood set against the dramatic and beautiful scenery of the Murray River in South Australia.

Big River Days

Author : John Pilkington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646298313
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Big River Days written by John Pilkington and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Running the River

Author : Wes Ferguson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623491274
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Running the River written by Wes Ferguson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of hunters and loggers, more than a few water moccasins, swarms of mosquitoes, and the occasional black bear lumbering through swamp oak and cypress knees. But when Ferguson set out to do a series of newspaper stories on the upper portion of the river, he and photographer Jacob Croft Botter were entranced by the river’s subtle beauty and the solitude they found there. They came to admire the self-described “river rats” who hunted, fished, and swapped stories along the muddy water—plain folk who love the Sabine as much as Hill Country vacationers love the clear waters of the Guadalupe. Determined to travel the rest of the river, Ferguson and Botter loaded their gear and launched into the stretch of river that charts the line between the states and ends at the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

The Last River

Author : Todd Balf
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 9780609606254
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Last River written by Todd Balf and published by Crown. This book was released on 2000 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of a kayak team's quest to make the first descent through the dangerous Tsangpo Gorge describes how the four expert members of the team took on an adventure that ended in tragedy.

East Along the Equator

Author : Helen Winternitz
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871131621
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book East Along the Equator written by Helen Winternitz and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.

Immortal River

Author : Calvin R. Fremling
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299202941
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Immortal River written by Calvin R. Fremling and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it also includes information about the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota and about the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river's mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an understanding of the basic geology underlying the river's landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.

Mississippi Solo

Author : Eddy Harris
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805059038
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Solo written by Eddy Harris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.

The River of Time

Author : Igorʹ Dmitrievich Novikov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521008484
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The River of Time written by Igorʹ Dmitrievich Novikov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the history of the study of time and presentation of the modern state of physical research.

A River Runs through It and Other Stories

Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647223X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book A River Runs through It and Other Stories written by Norman MacLean and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation

Big River to Cross

Author : B. L. Burman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Big River to Cross written by B. L. Burman and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life and Times of a Big River

Author : Peter J. Marchand
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232482
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Life and Times of a Big River written by Peter J. Marchand and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Nixon signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971, eighty million acres were flagged as possible national park land. Field expeditions were tasked with recording what was contained in these vast acres. Under this decree, five men were sent into the sprawling, roadless interior of Alaska, unsure of what they’d encounter and ultimately responsible for the fate of four thousand pristine acres. Life and Times of a Big River follows Peter J. Marchand and his team of biologists as they set out to explore the land that would ultimately become the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Their encounters with strange plants, rare insects, and little-known mammals bring to life a land once thought to be static and monotonous. And their struggles to navigate and adapt to an unforgiving environment capture the rigorous demands of remote field work. Weaving in and out of Marchand's narrative is an account of the natural and cultural history of the area as it relates to the expedition and the region’s Native peoples. Life and Times of a Big River chorincles this riveting, one-of-a-kind journey of uncertainty and discovery from a disparate (and at one point desperate) group of biologists.

The Life and Times of Charles

Author : Dryfuss W. Driftwood
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493106627
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Charles written by Dryfuss W. Driftwood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompany Charles as he visits contemporary, historical and, yes, story-book places. Join him as he encounters the enemy and leaves them completely disconcerted by means of his clever maneuvering techniques. He thwarts their vicious attempts, artfully outwits them, and gains International fame, too. Be it known that the enclosed pages are designed to present you with humor and adventure—humorous adventure, if you please. This is an exciting saga of the good guys and the bad guys. Boy! How can you even think of staying home! Thirty-year-old Charles is at home when the letter from his Uncle Charles arrives. Uncle Charles, on his death bed, in his death throes; writes a death note to nephew Charles. Its contents launch him on a life of high adventure! Charles gains many friends in his travels and unscrupulous enemies too. You will travel from Africa across a slightly salted raging main to the Brave New World. You will find international intrigue as he stealthily steals his way through many modern-day cities of the world.

Nch'i-wána, "the Big River"

Author : Eugene S. Hunn
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295971193
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Nch'i-wána, "the Big River" written by Eugene S. Hunn and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mighty Columbia River cuts a deep gash through the Miocene basalts of the Columbia Plateau, coursing as well through the lives of the Indians who live along its banks. Known to these people as Nch’i-Wana (the Big River), it forms the spine of their land, the core of their habitat. At the turn of the century, the Sahaptin speakers of the mid-Columbia lived in an area between Celilo Falls and Priest Rapids in eastern Oregon and Washington. They were hunters and gatherers who survived by virtue of a detailed, encyclopedic knowledge of their environment. Eugene Hunn’s authoritative study focuses on Sahaptin ethnobiology and the role of the natural environment in the lives and beliefs of their descendants who live on or near the Yakima, Umatilla, and Warm Springs reservations.

The Life and Times of Lokmanya Tilak

Author : Nandini Saraf
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 8184301529
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Lokmanya Tilak written by Nandini Saraf and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word ‘lok’ means public and ‘manya’ means accepted. Thus lokmanya means a person who has been accepted by people. In his context it means accepted by people as their leader. ‘Lokmanya’ Keshav Bal Gangadhar Tilak was recognized by the British as the Father of the Indian National Movement because of activities that stirred feelings of nationalism in the hearts of every Indian. Though his ideals often differed from Mahatma Gandhi; his views regarding crucial matters were sometimes accepted many times by Gandhiji. A revolutionary and social reformer in the true sense of the word; he was a freedom fighter who elicited esteem from all; even his enemies. His indomitable spirit was appreciated by people. He voiced his opinions in speeches and through the newspaper; and everyone especially the British feared his speeches as well as editorials for they provoked Indians to fight for freedom. The British tried to put a ban on them; but did they succeed? The book observes Tilak’s multifaceted personality through the eyes of people. It is a beneficial book for students; scholars and historians alike.

The Great Flowing River

Author : Chi Pang-yuan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547811
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Great Flowing River written by Chi Pang-yuan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi’s remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, humanizes the eventful and turbulent times in which she lived. The Great Flowing River begins as a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of China’s war with Japan. Chi depicts her childhood in pre-occupation Manchuria and gives an eyewitness account of life in China during the war with Japan. She tells the tale of her youthful romance with a dashing pilot that ends tragically when he is shot down in the last days of the war. The book describes the deepening political divide in China and her choice to take a job in Taiwan, where she would remain after the Communist victory. Chi details her growth as an educator, scholar, and promoter of Chinese literature in translation and her realization that despite her roots in China, she has found a home in Taiwan, giving an immersive account of the postwar history of Taiwan from a mainlander’s perspective. A novelistic, epoch-defining narrative, The Great Flowing River unites the personal and intimate with the grand sweep of history.