Granite Fire And Fog

Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781512600452

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Granite, Fire, and Fog by Tom Wessels Pdf

Acadia National Park, on Maine's Mount Desert Island, is among the most popular national parks in the United States. From the road, visitors can experience magnificent vistas of summit and sea, but on a more intimate scale, equally compelling views abound along Acadia's hiking trails. Tom Wessels, an ecologist, naturalist, and avid hiker, attributes the park's popularity-and its unusual beauty-to the unique way in which earth, air, fire, and water-in the form of glacially scoured granite, winter winds, fire, and ocean fog-have converged to create a landscape that can be found nowhere else. In this beautifully illustrated book, Wessels invites readers to investigate the remarkable natural history of Mount Desert Island, along with the unique cultural story it gave rise to. This account of nature, terrain, and human interaction with the landscape will delight those who like to hike these bald summits, ride along the carriage roads, or explore the island's rugged shoreline. Wessels concludes with a guided tour of one of his favorite hikes, a ten-mile loop that will acquaint the reader with the diverse ecosystems described throughout his book.

Author : Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781453264232

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Fire by Caroline B. Cooney Pdf

A Maine teenager fights to escape the clutches of her evil guardians once and for all in the thrilling conclusion of this spooky trilogy. In just eighteen days the semester will be over, freeing Christina and her friends from the terrible Schooner Inne and the Shevvingtons, their creepy hosts during the school year. They’ll leave the mainland for the safety of Burning Fog Isle for the summer—and since the Shevvingtons may be moving out of town next year, the island kids could be free of them forever. But then Christina begins sleepwalking, and doing odd things like leaving lit candles around the house, carrying around pockets full of matches, and doodling flames into her textbooks—or so claim the Shevvingtons. Can Christina survive their insane tricks until the school year ends? Or will they use all eighteen days to make Christina’s life a living—and fiery—hell? No matter how hard you try, there’s no escaping this addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Caroline B. Cooney including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781453264225

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Fog by Caroline B. Cooney Pdf

After a girl leaves her Maine island to start at a new school, strange events have her doubting her sanity . . . Thirteen-year-old Christina lives on Burning Fog Isle, off the coast of Maine—a beautiful place with only three hundred year-round residents. This year, she’ll have to leave the island’s little white schoolhouse to start school on the mainland. That also means living away from home with fellow islanders—Anya, Benji, and the crush-worthy Michael—at the historic Schooner Inne, a bed and breakfast owned by the principal and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington. But on the mainland, no one is quite the same as they were at home. Benji and Michael seem less friendly. Anya is acting so strangely it seems she’s slowly losing her mind. And while Christina doesn’t know what’s going on, she can’t shake the feeling that the Shevvingtons are somehow behind it. No one else sees their eerie behavior—not her teachers, not her parents, not even her fellow island kids—making Christina wonder if she’s the one going crazy . . . This creepy thriller by the bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton will have you on the edge of your seat. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Caroline B. Cooney including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433001030414

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Light List by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UCAL:C2563281

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United States Coast Pilot by Anonim Pdf

Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4ZT2

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United States Coast Pilot by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Pdf

Author : Robert M. Jr Browning
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817318468

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Lincoln's Trident by Robert M. Jr Browning Pdf

Lincoln's Trident is the definitive account of the US Navy's West Gulf Blockading Squadron's quarantine of the Confederacy in the central and western Gulf of Mexico and adjacent river systems.

Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Environmental responsibility
ISBN : UVA:X006169560

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Orion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kristen Britain
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698146471

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Mirror Sight by Kristen Britain Pdf

Magic, danger, and adventure abound for messenger Karigan G'ladheon in author Kristen Britain's New York Times-bestselling Green Rider fantasy series • "First-rate fantasy." —Library Journal Karigan G’ladheon is a Green Rider—a seasoned member of the elite messenger corps of King Zachary of Sacoridia. King Zachary sends Karigan and a contingent of Sacoridians beyond the edges of his nation, into the mysterious Blackveil Forest, which has been tainted with dark magic by a twisted immortal spirit named Mornhavon the Black. In a magical confrontation against Mornhavon, Karigan is jolted out of Blackveil Forest and wakes in darkness. She’s lying on smooth, cold stone, but as she reaches out, she realizes that the stone is not just beneath her, but above and around her as well. She’s landed in a sealed stone sarcophagus, some unknown tomb, and the air is becoming thin. Is this to be her end? If she escapes, where will she find herself? Is she still in the world she remembers, or has the magical explosion transported her somewhere completely different? To find out, she must first win free of her prison— before it becomes her grave. And should she succeed, will she be walking straight into a trap created by Mornhavon himself?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UOM:39015092889446

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United States Coast Pilot 9 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosita Boland
Publisher : Gemma
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781934848272

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A Secret Map of Ireland by Rosita Boland Pdf

Olivia Silver directs this coming-of-age indie drama in which a family begins a 3,000 mile road trip to a new life in California. Whisked away by their father Tom (John Hawkes) in the dead of night from their home in New England, twelve-year-old Greta (Ryan Simpkins), her elder sister Caroline (Kendall Toole), and younger brother Nat (Ty Simpkins), find themselves crammed into the family's beat-up station wagon on a cross-country journey to Arcadia, where their father has a new job. Told that their mother will be meeting them there, an initially wary Greta, making her own journey of self-discovery, begins to have her suspicions that is something is wrong, when, with the journey becoming ever more claustrophobic, her father's demeanour descends from a cheery, day-trip dad to that of a belligerently tense hothead, ready-to-snap at any moment.

Author : Heather Gunn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781312289529

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Aspect Core Rulebook FC 2015 SC by Heather Gunn Pdf

Aspect is not your ordinary dungeon crawling, dragon slaying role playing game. Aspect focuses on freedom of character development, not linear progression. Its rich mechanics allow for sharpened words as well as sharpened blades, duels of social wit and mental cunning as well as strategic physical combat familiar to veteran gamers.

Author : Stephen A. Townsend
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585444878

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The Yankee Invasion of Texas by Stephen A. Townsend Pdf

In 1863 the Union capture of Texas was viewed as crucial to the strategy to deny the Confederacy the territory west of the Mississippi and thus to break the back of Southern military force. Overland, Texas supplied Louisiana and points east with needed goods; by way of Mexico, Texas offered a detour around the blockade of Southern ports and thus an economic link to England and France. But Union forces had no good base from which to interdict either part of the Texas trade. Their efforts were characterized by short, unsuccessful forays, primarily in East and South Texas. One of these, which left New Orleans on October 26, 1863, and was known as the Rio Grande Expedition, forms the centerpiece of this book. Stephen A. Townsend carefully traces the actions—and inaction—of the Union forces from the capture of Brownsville by troops under Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, through the advance up the coast with the help of Union Loyalists, until General Ulysses S. Grant ordered the abandonment of all of Texas except Brownsville in March 1864. Townsend analyzes the effects of the campaign on the local populace, the morale and good order of the two armies involved, U.S. diplomatic relations with France, the Texas cotton trade, and postwar politics in the state. He thoughtfully assesses the benefits and losses to the Northern war effort of this only sustained occupation of Texas. No understanding of the Civil War west of the Mississippi—or its place in the Union strategy for the Deep South—will be complete without this informative study.

Author : David E. Chinitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118647097

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A Companion to T. S. Eliot by David E. Chinitz Pdf

Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his life and achievement. It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and career It explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical It charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot since the early 1990s It provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century