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Author : Thomson Wilson Leys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Tarawera, Eruption of 1886
ISBN : UOM:39015070321685
Author : Erin Peabody
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634509350
The summer of 1871, a team of thirty-two men set out on the first scientific expedition across Yellowstone. Through uncharted territory, some of the day’s most renowned scientists and artists explored, sampled, sketched, and photographed the region’s breathtaking wonders—from its white-capped mountain vistas and thundering falls to its burping mud pots and cauldrons of molten magma. At the end of their adventure, the survey packed up their specimens and boarded trains headed east, determined to convince Congress that the country needed to preserve the land from commercial development. They returned with “stories of wonder hardly short of fairy tales,” to quote the New York Times. With the support of conservationists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Law Olmsted, and John Muir, the importance of a national park was secured. On March 1, 1872, Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone Park Bill into law. It set aside over two million acres of one-of-a-kind wilderness as “a great national park for the benefit and enjoyment of people.” This important and fascinating book will introduce young adults to the astonishing adventure that led to “the best idea America ever had.” Today over 130 countries have copied the Yellowstone model, and billions of acres of critical habitat and spectacular scenery are being preserved for all of us to enjoy. This book has a wonderful ecological and historical message for readers ages 12 and up. No book about Yellowstone's founding has been written for this age group before, yet Yellowstone National Park is a major destination for many families, so many readers will likely have heard of Yellowstone or even have visited there. This is a great book for any school library or for history or science classrooms in middle and high school, where information can be used for research projects.
Author : Matt Barnes,Dazz Brown,Greg S-C
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781783529278
Not all games are released equal. The barriers of language and culture can leave our world divided, and this includes the video games that we get the chance to play. Matt Barnes, Dazz Brown and Greg Seago-Curl of DidYouKnowGaming? created the YouTube series Region Locked to offer an insight into the weird and wonderful titles that never left their home countries, and now they bring their expertise to you, the gaming reader. Encounter masterpieces you never knew existed from your favourite series and developers, as well as some utterly bizarre creations that seem so outlandish you might wonder how on earth they were released in the first place, from the trippy, meandering dreamscapes of 1998’s LSD: Dream Emulator to The Mysterious Murasame Castle, released in 1986 by Nintendo, and the intergalactic adventures of Crime Crackers (1994). The authors explore what it’s like to play these games, and investigate the fascinating characters and maverick designers behind them to discover why such remarkable creations never enjoyed international exposure. For the casual gamer, keen developer, intrigued reader and hardcore fan alike, Region Locked is the key to a surreal and adventurous journey through the lost world of video games.
Author : Arthur Machen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241309513
Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented and on edge. From the first page, Machen turns even fundamental truths upside-down, as his character Ambrose explains, "there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin, who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed'" setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic.
Author : J. Colborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Sennar (Kingdom)
ISBN : OXFORD:N10567370
Author : Zane Grey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 5003 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609779177
Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his best selling book. These are his stories.
Author : Albany Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Albany (N.Y.)
ISBN : UCAL:B2951980
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199538898
The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. 'No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild, ' said H.L. Mencken. 'Here, indeed, are all the elements of sound fiction.' White Fang (1906), which London conceived as a 'complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild, ' is the tale of an abused wolf-dog tamed by exposure to civilization. Also included in this volume is 'To Build a Fire, ' a marvelously desolate short story set in the Klondike, but containing all the elements of a classic Greek tragedy.
Author : David Seargent
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319252957
After addressing strange cosmological hypotheses in Weird Universe, David Seargent tackles the no-less bizarre theories closer to home. Alternate views on the Solar System's formation, comet composition, and the evolution of life on Earth are only some of the topics he addresses in this new work. Although these ideas exist on the fringe of mainstream astronomy, they can still shed light on the origins of life and the evolution of the planets. Continuing the author's series of books popularizing strange astronomy facts and knowledge, Weird Astronomical Theories presents an approachable exploration of the still mysterious questions about the origin of comets, the pattern of mass extinctions on Earth, and more. The alternative theories discussed here do not come from untrained amateurs. The scientists whose work is covered includes the mid-20th century Russian S. K. Vsekhsvyatskii, cosmologist Max Tegmark, British astronomers Victor Clube and William Napier, and American Tom Van Flandern, a specialist in celestial mechanics who held a variety of unusual beliefs about the possibility of intelligent life having come from elsewhere. Despite being outliers, their work reveals how much astronomical understanding is still evolving. Unconventional approaches have also pushed our scientific understanding for the better, as with R.W. Mandl's approaching Einstein with regard to gravitational lensing. Even without full substantiation (and some theories are hardly credible), their hypotheses allow for a new perspective on how the Solar System became what it is today.
Author : Joel Cook
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734039003
Reproduction of the original: America by Joel Cook
Author : H. P Lovecraft
Publisher : Random House
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446476291
An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft, master and pioneer of horror. Between these pages you will find things that lurk, things that scurry in the walls, things that move unseen, things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl, unfathomable blackness, unconquerable evil, inhuman impulses, abnormal bodies, ancient rites, nameless lands best left undiscovered, thoughts best left unspoken, doors best left closed, names best forgotten. You have been warned.
Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101663035
A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. This Penguin Classics edition brings together a dozen of the master's tales-from his early short stories "Under the Pyramids" (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and "The Music of Erich Zann" (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favorites) through his more fully developed works, "The Dunwich Horror," The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and At the Mountains of Madness. The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Royal Society of New Zealand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Science
ISBN : CHI:20425076
Author : Royal Society of New Zealand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112009772655
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015035469363
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.