Cache Lake Country Or Life In The North Woods

Author : John J. Rowlands
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781581574920

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Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods by John J. Rowlands Pdf

The classic chronicle of life and self-reliance in the great Northern Forest, reissued for its many fans “Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons—a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys the work-a-day joys and exertions of life in the wilderness, the woodscraft techniques it illustrates, and the slow and pleasurable way in which the soul of a serene man is revealed.” —The New York Times Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days, he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams," which he named Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer?timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without. This is his story, containing both folklore and philosophy, with wisdom about the woods and the demand therein for inventiveness. It includes directions for making moccasins, stoves, shelters, outdoor ovens, canoes, and hundreds of other ingenious and useful gadgets.

Author : John J. Rowlands
Publisher : New York : W.W. Norton
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Camping
ISBN : LCCN:59013370

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Cache Lake Country by John J. Rowlands Pdf

Includes information on equipment and methods of travel.

Author : John J. Rowlands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Camping
ISBN : OCLC:773197566

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Cache Lake Country by John J. Rowlands Pdf

Author : Thomas Osborne
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459702387

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Reluctant Pioneer by Thomas Osborne Pdf

Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale. For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic." Reluctant Pioneer provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony.

Author : Charles Alden John Farrar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Maine
ISBN : UCAL:B249756

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From Lake to Lake; Or, a Trip Across Country by Charles Alden John Farrar Pdf

Author : Леонид Леонов,Norbert Guterman
Publisher : New York L.B. Fischer 1944.
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Engineers
ISBN : UOM:39015065979448

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Road to the Ocean by Леонид Леонов,Norbert Guterman Pdf

Story of a Russian engineer and the railroad across Siberia to the Pacific.

Author : Irwin Wolfe
Publisher : Goodbye Beaver Lake
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1931207445

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Goodbye Beaver Lake by Irwin Wolfe Pdf

Separatist madness engulfs Quebec in this saga of a society torn asunder by French-Canadian nationalists hellbent on Quebec's secession from Canada. It might be described as a historical/political metaphor, a cautionary tale, recounting some of the momentous events which have occurred in the Province of Quebec between the late 50s and present day. The story also dips back into the 30s and 40s.

Author : Inez McAlister Faber
Publisher : Iowa State Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002975418

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Out Here on Soap Creek by Inez McAlister Faber Pdf

Author : Martha Saxton
Publisher : Amherst College Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780943184210

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Amherst in the World by Martha Saxton Pdf

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Amherst College, a group of scholars and alumni explore the school’s substantial past in this volume. Amherst in the World tells the story of how an institution that was founded to train Protestant ministers began educating new generations of industrialists, bankers, and political leaders with the decline in missionary ambitions after the Civil War. The contributors trace how what was a largely white school throughout the interwar years begins diversifying its student demographics after World War II and the War in Vietnam. The histories told here illuminate how Amherst has contended with slavery, wars, religion, coeducation, science, curriculum, town and gown relations, governance, and funding during its two centuries of existence. Through Amherst’s engagement with educational improvement in light of these historical undulations, it continually affirms both the vitality and the utility of a liberal arts education. Contributions by Martha Saxton, Gary J. Kornblith, David W. Wills, Frederick E. Hoxie, Trent Maxey, Nicholas L. Syrett, Wendy H. Bergoffen, Rick López, Matthew Alexander Randolph, Daniel Levinson Wilk, K. Ian Shin, David S. Reynolds, Jane F. Thrailkill, Julie Dobrow, Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Debby Applegate, Michael E. Jirik, Bruce Laurie, Molly Michelmore, and Christian G. Appy.

Author : Harold E. Samson
Publisher : North Country Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : History
ISBN : 092516884X

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Tug Hill Country by Harold E. Samson Pdf

Author : Andrew Westoll
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443441872

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The Jungle South of the Mountain by Andrew Westoll Pdf

In an unnamed country on the northern coast of South America, a scientist named Stanley is deeply embedded in the life of the rainforest. He’s been studying a troop of capuchin monkeys for eight years—seven since his wife, Maria, left him, and their mentor, Professor Collymore, mysteriously disappeared. The country is preparing for a hotly contested election, which promises to unleash ancient tensions among the populace. Stanley, however, is oblivious to this, focused only on his research and his conviction that Maria will one day come back to him. But then his research is violently threatened: one of his beloved monkeys goes missing, and then another. Something is killing them, one by one. Stanley decides to take matters into his own hands, but soon learns that there are forces in the jungle as difficult to quell as the spirit of rebellion brewing in the south. Soon, Stanley finds everything he holds dear—his livelihood, his monkeys, his very life—in danger. The Jungle South of the Mountain is a chilling, visceral, brilliantly imagined novel about the stories we believe, the lies we tell and the choices we make to protect what we love.

Author : Simone Snaith
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780823441938

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Between the Water and the Woods by Simone Snaith Pdf

Emeline's quiet village has three important rules: Don't look at the shadows. Don't cross the river. And don't enter the forest. An illustrated fantasy filled with beauty and power, Between the Water and the Woods sweeps you into a world where forests are hungry; knights fight with whips; the king is dying; and a peasant girl's magic will decide the future of the realm . . . When Emeline's little brother breaks all three of their village's rules, she is forced to use her family's forbidden magic to rescue him from the dark things he awakens, the Ithin. Now that the Ithin are afoot in the land, she must, by law, travel to the royal court and warn the king. But the only way she and her family can make the journey to the capital is with the protection of a sour magister and a handsome, whip-wielding Lash Knight. Will Emeline survive in a city where conspiracies swirl like smoke and her magic is all but outlawed? Seven full-page black-and-white illustrations accompany Between the Water and the Woods, a lush, fairy-tale-style fantasy perfect for readers of Karen Cushman and Shannon Hale.

Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781581578577

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Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels Pdf

Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new field guide from the author of Reading the Forested Landscape. Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down? Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key—a fascinating series of either/or questions—to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.

Author : John J. Rowlands,Henry B. Kane
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1978-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393009084

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Cache Lake Country by John J. Rowlands,Henry B. Kane Pdf

Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Maine to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days -- "it was so quiet I could hear the drops from the paddle hitting the water" -- he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams". He never left. He named the place Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer -- timber for a cabin; fish, game and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without.

Author : Francesca Duranti
Publisher : Delphinium
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-26
Category : Italian fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110307639

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House on Moon Lake by Francesca Duranti Pdf

A prize-winning international bestseller, this gripping story by Francesca Duranti follows Fabrizio, an impoverished but aristocratic translator, on his obsessive quest to find a lost German novel -- The House on Moon Lake -- after he reads a reference to it in the book of a renowned literary critic. Fabrizio's quest and its solution transform his life as he searches for the reality behind the events in the book and its author.As Fabrizio is drawn into making up a story which slowly -- and intolerably -- becomes fact, he watches as his own creation begins to overpower him. By the time Fabrizio realizes the ramifications of the myth he has crafted, the love story of the original dissolves into a horror story of the present.