Returning North With The Spring

Author : Harris, John R
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780813059990

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Returning North with the Spring by Harris, John R Pdf

At winter's end in 1947, driven by the devastating loss of a son killed in World War II, naturalist Edwin Way Teale followed the dawning spring season northward in an amazing 17,000-mile odyssey from the Everglades to Maine. He wrote about the adventure in North with the Spring. Its sequel Wandering Through Winter won the Pulitzer Prize. Retracing Teale's route, writer John Harris reveals a vastly changed natural world. In Returning North with the Spring, he stops at the very places where Teale once stood, trekking through the Okefenokee wetland, the Great Smoky Mountains, the Great Dismal Swamp, the New Jersey Pine Barrens, and Cape Cod. He is stunned to see how climate change, invasive species, and other factors have affected the landscapes and wildlife. Yet he also discovers that many of the sites Teale described have been newly "rewilded" or permanently protected by the government. Homage to the past, report on the present, glimpse into the future--this book honors what has been lost in the years since Teale's famous journey and finds hope in the small tenacities of nature.

Author : Reeve Lindbergh
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395828198

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North Country Spring by Reeve Lindbergh Pdf

Rhyming verse and illustrations describe the arrival of spring in the north. Includes section with facts about animal behavior.

Author : Chris Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124028684

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Dry Spring by Chris Wood Pdf

"As it warms, our world is running out of fresh water--fast. Lakes, aquifers and rivers are disappearing, but we consume more water than ever. What will this mean for North Americans? Dry spring shows dramatically how water loss will devastate countless communities over the next 25 years--cities and farms, forests and coastlines, ranches and orchards. The scarcity of water challenges the soaring success of some of our continent's fastest-growing regions: the American Southwest, the arid plains of Western Canada, the cross-border Great Lakes Basin. Yet while unprecedented dryness afflicts such areas as these, violently wet storms pummel many others. And drought and flooding will only worsen over time. In years to come, Canada will get more water and the U.S. less; Wood demonstrates provocatively what this will mean for political relations. He concludes with inspiring examples of choices we can all make that will help us preserve our water for future generations."--Book jacket.

Author : Carolyn Tyree Feagans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Blue Ridge Mountains
ISBN : 0963462725

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Spring's Return by Carolyn Tyree Feagans Pdf

Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143197928

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Spring by Ali Smith Pdf

“This is the most political book thus far in this earthy and humane series. Its heart is worn far out on its sleeve. It beats arrhythmically somewhere down near the knuckles….Smith’s vision isn’t fundamentally pessimistic, however. There’s too much squirming life in her fiction, slashes of cleansing light for those who seek it.” - New York Times "Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices."--The Guardian From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal.

Author : Ben Ehrenreich
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780698148192

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The Way to the Spring by Ben Ehrenreich Pdf

From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages. Along the way he has written major stories for American outlets, including a remarkable New York Times Magazine cover story. Now comes the powerful new work that has always been his ultimate goal, The Way to the Spring. We are familiar with brave journalists who travel to bleak or war-torn places on a mission to listen and understand, to gather the stories of people suffering from extremes of oppression and want: Katherine Boo, Ryszard Kapuściński, Ted Conover, and Philip Gourevitch among them. Palestine is, by any measure, whatever one's politics, one such place. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints, and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, this is a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine. In a great act of bravery, empathy and understanding, Ben Ehrenreich, by placing us in the footsteps of ordinary Palestinians and telling their story with surpassing literary power and grace, makes it impossible for us to turn away.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU06850804

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Chambers's Encyclopaedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Shoalts
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735236844

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Beyond the Trees by Adam Shoalts Pdf

National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer." In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America's greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it's still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being. Between his starting point in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, to his destination in Baker Lake, Nunavut, lies a maze of obstacles: shifting ice floes, swollen rivers, fog-bound lakes, and gale-force storms. And Shoalts must time his departure by the breakup of the spring ice, then sprint across nearly 4,000 kilometers of rugged, wild terrain to arrive before winter closes in. He travels alone up raging rivers that only the most expert white-water canoeists dare travel even downstream. He must portage across fields of jagged rocks that stretch to the horizon, and navigate labyrinths of swamps, tormented by clouds of mosquitoes every step of the way. And the race against the calendar means that he cannot afford the luxuries of rest, or of making mistakes. Shoalts must trek tirelessly, well into the endless Arctic summer nights, at times not even pausing to eat. But his reward is the adventure of a lifetime. Heart-stopping, wonder-filled, and attentive to the majesty of the natural world, Beyond the Trees captures the ache for adventure that afflicts us all.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Kadokawa Gempak Starz Sdn Bhd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789673850815

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X-Venture Roping The Ropen by Anonim Pdf

Does the winged Ropen of Papua New Guinea really exist? That"s the question the X-VENTURE Xplorers have decided to answer! But it won"t be easy- cannibals, poachers and a volcano only complicate an already tough job! And that"s not accounting the other mysteries lurking in the jungles of Papua New Guinea! Can the team prove the existence of this curious creature and avoid becoming bird food? Let yourself get roped in by this book and find out!

Author : Chicago Academy of Sciences
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951D03312156Z

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Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences by Chicago Academy of Sciences Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015056091526

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Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Grant Wilson,John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015071163656

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Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson,John Fiske Pdf

Author : Keith Barnes,Terry Stevenson,John Fanshawe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472984012

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Field Guide to Birds of Greater Southern Africa by Keith Barnes,Terry Stevenson,John Fanshawe Pdf

This spectacular field guide includes all resident, breeding and migrant species found in Greater Southern Africa. Comprising South Africa, Lesotho, eSwatini, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, Greater Southern Africa is a vast region home to a truly extraordinary diversity of avifauna. The latest in the Helm Field Guide series, Birds of Greater Southern Africa describes all 1,170 regularly occurring species that are likely to be encountered in the region, from the Wandering Albatross to the Pennant-winged Nightjar. Featuring 272 colour plates by three of the world's leading bird illustrators, this practical guide also includes concise species accounts describing key identification features, status, range, habitat and voice; distribution maps for each species are also included. Fully illustrated throughout, this is an essential reference guide for anyone visiting or living in this wildlife-rich area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044127321578

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Appleton's Dictionary of New York and Its Vicinity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Birds
ISBN : UOM:39015006168747

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Life Histories of North American Diving Birds by Arthur Cleveland Bent Pdf