Sky Time In Gray S River

Author : Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640092785

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Sky Time in Gray's River by Robert Michael Pyle Pdf

An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River--long out of print, this classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback with a new afterword by the author. Sky Time in Gray's River is an elegant meditation on life in the rural Northwest. Although Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist, and southwestern Washington is notable for its lack of butterflies, something about the Gray's River Valley spoke to him when he visited more than forty years ago. Since then he has lived near the village of Gray's River, one of the first to be established near the mouth of the Columbia River and only tenuously connected to the world of the twenty-first century. Pyle brings Gray's River to life by compressing those forty years into twelve chapters, following the lives of the people, plants, and animals that make this valley their home, month by month through the seasons. Through his loving portrait of one riverside village, Pyle illustrates how a special place can transform anyone lucky enough to find it. He shows that you don't have to travel far to see something new every day--if you know how to look.

Author : Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640092792

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Sky Time in Gray's River by Robert Michael Pyle Pdf

An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River--long out of print, this classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback with a new afterword by the author. Sky Time in Gray's River is an elegant meditation on life in the rural Northwest. Although Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist, and southwestern Washington is notable for its lack of butterflies, something about the Gray's River Valley spoke to him when he visited more than forty years ago. Since then he has lived near the village of Gray's River, one of the first to be established near the mouth of the Columbia River and only tenuously connected to the world of the twenty-first century. Pyle brings Gray's River to life by compressing those forty years into twelve chapters, following the lives of the people, plants, and animals that make this valley their home, month by month through the seasons. Through his loving portrait of one riverside village, Pyle illustrates how a special place can transform anyone lucky enough to find it. He shows that you don't have to travel far to see something new every day--if you know how to look.

Author : United States. Environmental Data Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130410090

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Climatological Data, Washington by United States. Environmental Data Service Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180434

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : OSU:32435067351676

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Climatological Data by United States. Weather Bureau Pdf

Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region with monthly and annual National summaries.

Author : Russell F. Pringle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Soil surveys
ISBN : UCSD:31822043495886

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Soil Survey of Grays Harbor County Area, Pacific County, and Wahkiakum County, Washington by Russell F. Pringle Pdf

Author : David Muench
Publisher : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Natural bridges
ISBN : 9781558687455

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Windstone by David Muench Pdf

Celebrated landscape photographer Muench turns his keen photographic eye to the mystery of the sculpted earth with spectacular photos of natural arches, land bridges, windows, sea stacks, caves, and sea arches.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UOM:39015073222849

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Climatological Data for the United States by Sections by Anonim Pdf

Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.

Author : C. L. Rawlins
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781466882416

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Sky's Witness by C. L. Rawlins Pdf

Thoreau joked that he was a "self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms," never dreaming that such a need might exist. But such is the author's work and that of his various helpers, from ski bums to shortstops. They travel the alpine wilderness at all seasons by touring skis , snowshoes, pack llamas, float-tubes, and a tiny but dependable rat. The remove mountain beauty, "where thoughts stretch for miles and days," would be enough, but C.L. Rawlins is after something more. He's a backcountry hydrologist, collecting rain, snow, and the water of high lakes to measure air pollution. Alongside Rawlins we discover the natural history of the central Rockies, the flowering of plants, and the ways of mountain animals. We learn how the Shoshoni lived in this harsh country before the arrival of settlers. We see also the effect of twentieth-century living on a wilderness that feels pristine but bears the chemical trace of distant smokestacks and freeways. With a style that roams between natural observation and personal essay, Rawlins's Sky's Witness gives access not only to the wilderness but to the ways in which we know ourselves.

Author : Jacques Vallee,Chris Aubeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101444726

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Wonders in the Sky by Jacques Vallee,Chris Aubeck Pdf

One of the most ambitious works of paranormal investigation of our time, here is an unprecedented compendium of pre-twentieth-century UFO accounts, written with rigor and color by two of today's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena. In the past century, individuals, newspapers, and military agencies have recorded thousands of UFO incidents, giving rise to much speculation about flying saucers, visitors from other planets, and alien abductions. Yet the extraterrestrial phenomenon did not begin in the present era. Far from it. The authors of Wonders in the Sky reveal a thread of vividly rendered-and sometimes strikingly similar- reports of mysterious aerial phenomena from antiquity through the modern age. These accounts often share definite physical features- such as the heat felt and described by witnesses-that have not changed much over the centuries. Indeed, such similarities between ancient and modern sightings are the rule rather than the exception. In Wonders in the Sky, respected researchers Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck examine more than 500 selected reports of sightings from biblical-age antiquity through the year 1879-the point at which the Industrial Revolution deeply changed the nature of human society, and the skies began to open to airplanes, dirigibles, rockets, and other opportunities for misinterpretation represented by military prototypes. Using vivid and engaging case studies, and more than seventy-five illustrations, they reveal that unidentified flying objects have had a major impact not only on popular culture but on our history, on our religion, and on the models of the world humanity has formed from deepest antiquity. Sure to become a classic among UFO enthusiasts and other followers of unexplained phenomena, Wonders in the Sky is the most ambitious, broad-reaching, and intelligent analysis ever written on premodern aerial mysteries.

Author : David H. Kelley,Eugene F. Milone
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441976246

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Exploring Ancient Skies by David H. Kelley,Eugene F. Milone Pdf

Exploring Ancient Skies brings together the methods of archaeology and the insights of modern astronomy to explore the science of astronomy as it was practiced in various cultures prior to the invention of the telescope. The book reviews an enormous and growing body of literature on the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, the Far East, and the New World (particularly Mesoamerica), putting the ancient astronomical materials into their archaeological and cultural contexts. The authors begin with an overview of the field and proceed to essential aspects of naked-eye astronomy, followed by an examination of specific cultures. The book concludes by taking into account the purposes of ancient astronomy: astrology, navigation, calendar regulation, and (not least) the understanding of our place and role in the universe. Skies are recreated to display critical events as they would have appeared to ancient observers--events such as the supernova of 1054 A.D., the "lion horoscope," and the Star of Bethlehem. Exploring Ancient Skies provides a comprehensive overview of the relationships between astronomy and other areas of human investigation. It will be useful as a reference for scholars and as a text for students in both astronomy and archaeology, and will be of compelling interest to readers who seek a broad understanding of our collective intellectual history.

Author : Joyce Gellhorn
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : White-tailed ptarmigan
ISBN : 1555663974

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White-tailed Ptarmigan by Joyce Gellhorn Pdf

A close look at these birds, where they live, what they eat, etc. Ptarmigan are native to CO, MT, ID

Author : Consumer Guide (Firm),Publications International
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1412712203

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Travel Atlas by Consumer Guide (Firm),Publications International Pdf

Author : Kij Johnson
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781931520812

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At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson Pdf

A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and The Secret History of Fantasy. At the Mouth of the River of Bees 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss The Horse Raiders Spar Fox Magic Names for Water Schrodinger’s Cathouse My Wife Reincarnated as a Solitaire Chenting, in the Land of the Dead The Bitey Cat The Empress Jingu Fishes Wolf Trapping The Man Who Bridged the Mist Ponies The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change Kij Johnson's stories have won the Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. She has taught writing; worked at Tor, Dark Horse, and Microsoft; worked as a radio announcer; run bookstores; and waitressed in a strip bar.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : RW Richard
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780980080407

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Neanderthals and the Garden of Eden by Anonim Pdf