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Wings on the River

Author : David Embry Jones
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1921054271
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Wings on the River written by David Embry Jones and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wings on the River tells the colourful story of flying boats from Brisbane's unique viewpoint. Flying boats represented comfort and safety in reaching distant and exotic places across the sea, and Brisbane was on the doorstep of flying boat travel for more than fifty years. Wings on the River traces the whole flying boat era in Australia through its many changes, its triumphs and adversities, including: Pioneering flights between the wars by overseas and local flying boats alighting in the heart of the city; Qantas flying boats on the legendary Empire Air Mail route to Britain flying passengers in unprecedented luxury; Wartime U.S. Navy flying boat services across the Pacific to General MacArthur's headquarters in Brisbane; Barrier Reef Airways, Queensland's own flying boat airline, bringing Great Barrier Reef resorts closer to interstate tourists; The controversy about flying boats using the Brisbane River, and the dramatic accidents which forced them to leave; The story of Redland Bay's water airport and its little-known service over two decades.

Wings on the Water

Author : Steve Maslowski
Publisher : Ampry Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1881982866
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Wings on the Water written by Steve Maslowski and published by Ampry Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines the best reference articles from the pages of "Wildfowl Carving Magazine" with a new collection of images Provides a wealth of information about more than two dozen aquatic birds An in-depth look at a variety of ducks and geese for carvers and waterfowl enthusiasts alike, described in vivid prose from the magazine's best writers Detailed, intoxicating images by Steve Maslowski, one of the stalwart veterans of wildlife photography

Arctic Wings

Author : Stephen Charles Brown
Publisher : Braided River
ISBN 13 : 9780898869750
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Wings written by Stephen Charles Brown and published by Braided River. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred color images celebrating the birds that journey to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge each year are accompanied by essays by noted biologists and conservationists.

All of Us with Wings

Author : Michelle Ruiz Keil
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641290358
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book All of Us with Wings written by Michelle Ruiz Keil and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This young adult fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is “a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era,” told through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl (Entertainment Weekly). “Complex and beautiful, blending folklore, San Franciscan history, the music scene, vampires, magic . . . hard to put down.” —School Library Journal Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame. But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe—not the family Xochi’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.

Words with Wings

Author : Nikki Grimes
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1635924782
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Words with Wings written by Nikki Grimes and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, Children's Literature Legacy Award-winner Nikki Grimes explores though her celebrated poetry how a supportive teacher can be the key to unlocking a dreamer's imaginative power through creative writing. Gabby's world is filled with daydreams. However, what began as an escape from her parents' arguments has now taken over her life. But with the help of a new teacher, 'Gabby the dreamer' might just become 'Gabby the writer' and the words that once carried her away might allow her to soar. Written in vivid, accessible poems, this remarkable verse novel is a celebration of imagination, of friendship, of one girl's indomitable spirit, and of a teacher's ability to reach out and change a life. Coretta Scott King Author Honor book NCTE Notable Children's Books in the English Language Arts Kirkus Reviews Best Book

Wings in the Desert

Author : Amadeo M. Rea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816548455
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Wings in the Desert written by Amadeo M. Rea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a common but often unspoken arrogance on the part of outside observers that folk science and traditional knowledge—the type developed by Native communities and tribal groups—is inferior to the “formal science” practiced by Westerners. In this lucidly written and humanistic account of the O’odham tribes of Arizona and Northwest Mexico, ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea exposes the limitations of this assumption by exploring the rich ornithology that these tribes have generated about the birds that are native to their region. He shows how these peoples’ observational knowledge provides insights into the behaviors, mating habits, migratory patterns, and distribution of local bird species, and he uncovers the various ways that this knowledge is incorporated into the communities’ traditions and esoteric belief systems. Drawing on more than four decades of field and textual research along with hundreds of interviews with tribe members, Rea identifies how birds are incorporated, both symbolically and practically, into Piman legends, songs, art, religion, and ceremonies. Through highly detailed descriptions and accounts loaded with Native voice, this book is the definitive study of folk ornithology. It also provides valuable data for scholars of linguistics and North American Native studies, and it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how humans make sense of their world. It will be of interest to historians of science, anthropologists, and scholars of indigenous cultures and folk taxonomy.

On Ancient Wings

Author : Michael Forsberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book On Ancient Wings written by Michael Forsberg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the most ancient of all birds. More than a half-million strong, flying in squadrons, these majestic creatures point northward to their Arctic and sub-Arctic breeding ranges. Theirs is an epic story of endurance through the ages. With 153 stunning color photographs, On Ancient Wings presents sandhill cranes in their wild but increasingly compromised habitats today. Over the course of five years, Michael Forsberg documented the tall gray birds in habitats ranging from the Alaskan tundra, to the arid High Plains, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards. With an eye for beauty and an uncommon persistence, the author documents the cranes' challenges to adapt and survive in a rapidly changing natural world. Forsberg argues that humankind, for its own sake, should secure the cranes' place in the future. On Ancient Wings intertwines the lives of cranes, people, and their common places to tell an ancient story at a time when sandhill cranes and their wetland and grassland habitats face daunting prospects.

Wings

Author : E.D. Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599908069
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Wings written by E.D. Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamisin has always been a little weird. Her freckles actually look more like sparkles and occasionally, she likes to dance under the full moon. Then one day, wings sprout from her back, and Tamisin learns that her parents adopted her from fairyland. Inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, this fairy tale will delight fans of The Tales of the Frog Princess and new readers alike.

China's Wings

Author : Gregory Crouch
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 034553235X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book China's Wings written by Gregory Crouch and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight. At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying—sometimes literally—on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. V. Soong; Generals Arnold, Stilwell, and Marshall; and legendary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe. With the outbreak of full-scale war in 1941, Bond and CNAC are transformed from uneasy spectators to active participants in the struggle against Axis imperialism. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China’s survival. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China’s only overland supply route, Bond and his pilots must battle shortages of airplanes, personnel, and spare parts to airlift supplies over an untried five-hundred-mile-long aerial gauntlet high above the Himalayas—the infamous “Hump”—pioneering one of the most celebrated endeavors in aviation history. A hero’s-eye view of history in the grand tradition of Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London, China’s Wings takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to a time and place that reshaped the modern world.

Some Under-water Activities of Certain Waterfowl

Author : Edward Howe Forbush
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Some Under-water Activities of Certain Waterfowl written by Edward Howe Forbush and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wings of Fire 1: The Dragonet Prophecy

Author : Tui T. Sutherland
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407147773
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Wings of Fire 1: The Dragonet Prophecy written by Tui T. Sutherland and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations. A secret movement called the Talons of Peace is determined to bring an end to the fighting, with the help of a prophecy. Five dragonets are enlisted, against their will, to end the terrible war. But when they escape their prison, the result may be more than intended . . .

Journal of the Flyfishers' Club

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Flyfishers' Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tying and Fishing Bucktails and Other Hair Wings

Author : Mike Valla
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811765326
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Tying and Fishing Bucktails and Other Hair Wings written by Mike Valla and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic bucktails--Mickey Finn, Black Nose Dace--are some of the very first flies that anglers learn to tie, and they are the most well-traveled of all streamer types, from Maine to Washington, trout to salmon. With over 500 patterns, this is the only book to date written on bucktails as well as other hairwing streamers.

Englisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch

Author : Grieb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Englisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch written by Grieb and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blue-Collar Wings

Author : Robert Keith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059541642X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Blue-Collar Wings written by Robert Keith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying airplanes for sport is expensive. Many recreational pilots are businessmen or executives with sufficient income that allows them to fly. But this recreational community also includes a smaller group-the blue-collar workers. With little disposable income, they struggle to find money to support their flying passion. Eventually, many succumb to the financial pressures of home and family, giving up flying altogether. But there are some who find a way to continue enjoying their love for flight. Blue-Collar Wings: Remembering Thirty Years of Private Flying is the autobiography of middle-class worker Robert J. Keith, who shares his story of flying light aircraft for recreation and refusing to abandon it in the face of increasing costs. For three decades, Robert and his wife Nancy enjoyed many adventures flying airplanes and hot air balloons throughout New England . and slightly beyond . and proved that dreams do come true.

Buffalo Wings

Author : Charles A. Hobbie
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440151989
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Wings written by Charles A. Hobbie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War II comes to an end in 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office. Throughout the country, the greatest generation mourns its leader. A spring snowstorm in Western New York inaugurates the cold war. Chuck Hobbie is just a boy, born on unlucky Friday, April 13th, but fortunate to be a child in Buffalo. As all Buffalonians know, it is not a dazzling city, unless the sparkle of winter snow and the shimmer of reflected summer lights from Erie and Niagara count. Likewise, the city's citizens, families, and teachers are unremarkable, unless resilience, friendships, and quiet, day-to-day hard work matter. Buffalo's children are not special at all, except that they were raised in Buffalo, amid the history of the Niagara Frontier, by people who cared for them and institutions that prepared them to fly. Buffalo's west side is where Chuck comes of age, but his childhood experiences range from there to New Hampshire's White Mountains, a farm in Lewiston, N.Y., Holloway Bay in Ontario, and Alaska's Brooks Range. Join Chuck as he recalls in Buffalo Wings the childhood family, friends, teachers, and experiences that shaped his life in the decades before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.