Two Men One River

Author : R. L. Manson
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525505867

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Two Men, One River by R. L. Manson Pdf

Begin with 1918 Niagara-on-the-lake: its opulence and extravagance, the actors and the elite, the tennis and golf and lawn bowling, and the promise of a fantastical amusement park lifestyle. The region is thriving. Sir Adam Beck is building the world’s largest hydro power station. Nikola Tesla has found a way to make electricity accessible to all of humanity. And a man named King Camp Gillette has developed plans for a futuristic utopian society that would have the mighty Niagara River as its lifeblood. Add two men with special abilities and powerful incentives. Jack Saunders is a troubled veteran of the First World War who desperately wants to make a good life for his beloved wife and friends, but his addictions and impulsive behaviour keep turning his noble intentions into disaster. Aaron O’Malley is an affluent business owner who sees that the region is on the verge of an evolution, one that he must cultivate for his personal gain. But O’Malley needs Jack. He preys upon his vulnerability and draws him into an ambitious scheme that he claims will bring wealth and power beyond their wildest dreams. History is about to change, and Jack is the key to its outcome.

Author : R. L. Manson
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525505850

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Two Men, One River by R. L. Manson Pdf

Begin with 1918 Niagara-on-the-lake: its opulence and extravagance, the actors and the elite, the tennis and golf and lawn bowling, and the promise of a fantastical amusement park lifestyle. The region is thriving. Sir Adam Beck is building the world’s largest hydro power station. Nikola Tesla has found a way to make electricity accessible to all of humanity. And a man named King Camp Gillette has developed plans for a futuristic utopian society that would have the mighty Niagara River as its lifeblood. Add two men with special abilities and powerful incentives. Jack Saunders is a troubled veteran of the First World War who desperately wants to make a good life for his beloved wife and friends, but his addictions and impulsive behaviour keep turning his noble intentions into disaster. Aaron O’Malley is an affluent business owner who sees that the region is on the verge of an evolution, one that he must cultivate for his personal gain. But O’Malley needs Jack. He preys upon his vulnerability and draws him into an ambitious scheme that he claims will bring wealth and power beyond their wildest dreams. History is about to change, and Jack is the key to its outcome.

Author : Candice Millard
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307575081

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The River of Doubt by Candice Millard Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait—the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. “A rich, dramatic tale that ranges from the personal to the literally earth-shaking.” —The New York Times The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut. Look for Candice Millard’s latest book, River of the Gods.

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439126837

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One River by Wade Davis Pdf

The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.

Author : Public Archives of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Archives
ISBN : IOWA:31858029729526

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Report on Canadian Archives and on the System of Keeping Public Records by Public Archives of Canada Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015029564047

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A River Runs Through it by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Redford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002280522

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Art Sales by George Redford Pdf

Author : Donna Milner
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443401838

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After River by Donna Milner Pdf

Until she was 15, Natalie Ward believed her world was perfect and that her family would always be together on the small dairy farm carved out of a remote mountain valley in Southern British Columbia. Then came River, the American draft dodger who became her family’s hired hand the summer that a new highway opened the valley to the larger world beyond. But thirty-five years after River’s arrival, the Ward family is shattered. With her mother dying, Natalie must return to the home she has spent her entire adult life running from, as the family’s dark secrets and betrayals threaten to scar a new generation. Evoking Mary Lawson’s Crow Lake and Carol Shields’ Unless, Milner renders characters who are achingly human and plots a story with masterful precision. After River eloquently captures the moral and social upheavals of the late ’60s and marks the emergence of a dazzling Canadian talent.

Author : British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings,Laurence Binyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Artists
ISBN : UOM:39015017045116

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Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin Working in Great Britain ...: A-C by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings,Laurence Binyon Pdf

Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226472232

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A River Runs through It and Other Stories by Norman MacLean Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479456475

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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Pdf

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck and first ublished in 1937. It chronicles the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States. Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences working alongside migrant farm workers as a teenager in the 1910s (before the arrival of the Okies that he would describe in The Grapes of Wrath). The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse", which reads: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley". (The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry.) While it is a book taught in many schools, Of Mice and Men has been a frequent target of censors for vulgarity, and what some consider offensive and racist language; consequently, it appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century.

Author : Henry Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Ohio
ISBN : IND:30000041553367

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Historical Collections of Ohio by Henry Howe Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NWU:35556000683581

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Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. M. Hulse
Publisher : HMH
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544309296

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Black River by S. M. Hulse Pdf

This novel of sorrow and suspense, set in rural Montana, is “a complex and powerful story—put Black River on the must-read list” (The Seattle Times). Wes Carver returns to his hometown—Black River, Montana—with two things: his wife’s ashes and a letter from the parole board. The convict who once held him hostage during a prison riot is up for release. For years, Wes earned his living as a correction officer and found his joy playing the fiddle. But the uprising shook Wes’s faith and robbed him of his music; now he must decide if his attacker should walk free. With “lovely rhythms, spare language, tenderness, and flashes of rage,” S. M. Hulse shows us the heart and darkness of an American town, and one man’s struggle to find forgiveness in the wake of evil (Los Angeles Review of Books).

Author : David Goetz,Steven Mathewson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985265574

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The Fly Fisher's Book of Lists by David Goetz,Steven Mathewson Pdf

In this light-hearted book on fly fishing, Dave Goetz and Steve Mathewson, publishers of the "2 Guys and a River" podcast offer fishers a book of snack-sized, practical help to catch more fish.