Settled In The Wild

Author : Susan Hand Shetterly
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781565129733

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Settled in the Wild by Susan Hand Shetterly Pdf

Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land—observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also snowshoe hares, raccoons, bobcats, turtles, salmon, ravens, hummingbirds, cormorants, sandpipers, and spring peepers). She expertly shows us how they all make their way in an ever-changing habitat. In writing about a displaced garter snake, witnessing the paving of a beloved dirt road, trapping a cricket with her young son, rescuing a fledgling raven, or the town's joy at the return of the alewife migration, Shetterly issues warnings even as she pays tribute to the resilience that abounds. Like the works of Annie Dillard and Aldo Leopold, Settled in the Wild takes a magnifying glass to the wildness that surrounds us. With keen perception and wit, Shetterly offers us an education in nature, one that should inspire us to preserve it.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316581097

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The Wild Robot by Peter Brown Pdf

Soon to be a DreamWorks movie, coming to theaters 9/27/24! Includes 8 pages of full color stills from the movie! Wall-E meets Hatchet in this #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her. From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.

Author : David J. Emmick
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781435738898

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Defending the Wilderness by David J. Emmick Pdf

This book is a companion to the book The Amick Partisan Rangers. This work covers the early Amick family and the Sewell Mountain area and the other members of the Amick family through the war. The chapters include Settling the Wilderness, Eli Amick and the 14th Virginia Cavalry, Joseph Amick and the Dixie Rifles, James Anderson Amick Company C 22nd, Asa Amick and Co. E of the 26th Battalion, James and Perry Amick and Company F, 36th, Henry Amick and the Nighthawk Rangers, The Amick Cousins in the Fight, Family Appendices and family information. Read the first chapter for a background of the family and to get acquainted with the area, then the chapters can be read in any order.

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484923

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Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life by Ian Hodder Pdf

Challenges the widely held assumption that the Neolithic saw an overall cognitive revolution.

Author : Ben Marsh
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820361420

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Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America... by Ben Marsh Pdf

The eighteen volumes of Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America (reproduced in sixteen discrete books) contain the diaries and letters of Lutheran pastors who ministered to the Salzburgers, German-speaking Protestant refugees, in Georgia. Samuel Urlsperger collected and edited these writings into the Urlsperger Reports printed at Orphanage Press, Halle, Germany, from 1735 to 1760. The original German publication, Ausführliche Nachricht von den saltzburgischen Emigranten, is available through the Internet Archive, but this English-language translation has not been available online until now. In the mid-eighteenth century, Samuel Urlsperger of the Lutheran Ministry in Augsburg edited the German edition of the Detailed Reports after having distributed the many reports to the faithful in Germany. He made major deletions for both diplomatic and economic reasons and suppressed proper names. His son, Johann August Urlsperger, succeeded him. He took even greater liberties with the text, deleting large sections and rearranging others. The English version, translated and edited by George Fenwick Jones, a German scholar, restores the deleted sections and the proper names and provides the original sequencing of the material. The Detailed Reports offer insight into daily life in colonial Georgia and provide precious details and vignettes on subjects that receive less attention in other sources, notably African Americans, women, silk production, and the cost of goods in a frontier colony. The Reports are an underutilized resource for the study of this period and an unparalleled source for the evolution of a rural community during the early years of the colony. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : William Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : PSU:000002749525

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A Guide to the Wilderness by William Cooper Pdf

Author : Matthew J. Kauffman,James E. Meacham,Hall Sawyer,William Rudd,Emilene Ostlind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0870719432

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Wild Migrations by Matthew J. Kauffman,James E. Meacham,Hall Sawyer,William Rudd,Emilene Ostlind Pdf

The migrations of Wyoming's hooved mammals--mule deer, pronghorn, elk, and moose--between their seasonal ranges are some of the longest and most noteworthy migrations on the North American continent. Wild Migrations presents the previously untold story of these migrations, combining wildlife science and cartography. Facing pages cover more than 50 migration topics, ranging from ecology to conservation and management, enriched by visually stunning graphics and maps, and an introductory essay by Emilene Ostlind.

Author : Mike Blakely
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Tales
ISBN : 9781556223921

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More Wild Camp Tales by Mike Blakely Pdf

The Women's Health Book is a comprehensive and informative guide to female health written by an Irish women's health specialist and owner of The Women's Health Clinic in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. An essential addition to any woman's bookshelf, The Women's Health Book addresses the lack of a thorough and all-encompassing Irish guide to female-related health and wellness. It is written in an accessible style and includes black and white illustrations. The author covers health from the teenage years up to the later years of life, including identifying symptoms and treatment. Topics such as adolescent gynaecology, female cancers, heart-related issues, osteoporosis, the menopause, pregnancy and all issues particularly related to the female anatomy are covered.

Author : Franklin Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Livingston County (Mich.)
ISBN : UOMDLP:bad0972:0001.001

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History of Livingston County, Michigan by Franklin Ellis Pdf

Author : Donald E. Morse,Kálmán Matolcsy,Donald E. Palumbo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786485215

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The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock by Donald E. Morse,Kálmán Matolcsy,Donald E. Palumbo Pdf

Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock’s varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of the Mythago Wood sequence are explored, as is Holdstock’s early science fiction and the Merlin Codex series.

Author : Elizabeth Wambheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735753203

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Of the Wild by Elizabeth Wambheim Pdf

Aeris, a shapeshifter of the Wild, steals children from unloving homes and raises them as his own in an enchanted grove deep in the Woods. Under the protective eye of their new guardian, the children absorb the forest's magic and grow more fey-like than human: some of them sprout mushrooms or flowers while others develop scales or wings. But the reserve of magic that keeps Aeris and his forest home alive is inexplicably running dry. With his life waning and the dangers of the Wild creeping closer and closer, Aeris will do anything to protect his family, even set his hopes on an unlikely new arrival in the Woods: a human stranger.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Local history
ISBN : WISC:89067454702

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History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps, and Dent Counties, Missouri by Anonim Pdf

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197191

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The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs Pdf

The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.

Author : Lucy Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : White Mountains
ISBN : NYPL:33433081781928

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The History of the White Mountains, from the First Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket by Lucy Crawford Pdf

Author : Laurence Oliphant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Canada
ISBN : BSB:BSB10467663

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Minnesota and the Far West by Laurence Oliphant Pdf