O Rugged Land of Gold
Author | : Martha Martin |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Alaska |
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Narrative of author's winter alone on the coast of Alaska.
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Author | : Martha Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : |
Narrative of author's winter alone on the coast of Alaska.
Author | : Mrs. Martha MARTIN |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Martha Martin |
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Release | : 1956 |
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Author | : Dan O'Neill |
Publisher | : New York : Counterpoint |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2006-05-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781582433448 |
In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off down the majestic Yukon River, beginning at Dawson, Yukon Territory, site of the Klondike gold rush. The journey he makes to Circle City, Alaska, is more than a voyage into northern wilderness, it is an expedition into the history of the river and a record of the inimitable inhabitants of the region, historic and contemporary. A literary kin of John Muir's Travels in Alaska and John McPhee's Coming into the Country, A Land Gone Lonesome is the book on Alaska for the new century. Though he treks through a beautiful and hostile wilderness, the heart of O'Neill's story is his exploration of the lives of a few tough souls clinging to the old ways-even as government policies are extinguishing their way of life. More than just colorful anachronisms, these wilderness dwellers-both men and women-are a living archive of North American pioneer values. As O'Neill encounters these natives, he finds himself drawn into the bare-knuckle melodrama of frontier life-and further back still into the very origins of the Yukon river world. With the rare perspective of an insider, O'Neill here gives us an intelligent, lyrical-and ultimately, probably the last-portrait of the river people along the upper Yukon.
Author | : Alan Rabinowitz |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2010-08-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1597268240 |
Dubbed the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, Alan Rabinowitz has devoted—and risked—his life to protect nature’s great endangered mammals. He has journeyed to the remote corners of the earth in search of wild things, weathering treacherous terrain, plane crashes, and hostile governments. Life in the Valley of Death recounts his most ambitious and dangerous adventure yet: the creation of the world’s largest tiger preserve. The tale is set in the lush Hukaung Valley of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. An escape route for refugees fleeing the Japanese army during World War II, this rugged stretch of land claimed the lives of thousands of children, women, and soldiers. Today it is home to one of the largest tiger populations outside of India—a population threatened by rampant poaching and the recent encroachment of gold prospectors. To save the remaining tigers, Rabinowitz must navigate not only an unforgiving landscape, but the tangled web of politics in Myanmar. Faced with a military dictatorship, an insurgent army, tribes once infamous for taking the heads of their enemies, and villagers living on less than one U.S. dollar per day, the scientist and adventurer most comfortable with animals is thrust into a diplomatic minefield. As he works to balance the interests of disparate factions and endangered wildlife, his own life is threatened by an incurable disease. The resulting story is one of destruction and loss, but also renewal. In forests reviled as the valley of death, Rabinowitz finds new life for himself, for communities haunted by poverty and violence, and for the tigers he vowed to protect.
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Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Laurie McBain |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 140224245X |
New York Times bestselling author and Reviewers' Choice Award-winner Laurie McBain has sold more than 11 million copies of her romances around the world with lush, epic storytelling that has made her a favorite among generations of readers. She has sworn never to love. To many, she has a perfect life-freedom to travel the world, expensive gifts from wealthy men. But consummate actress though she is, Mara Flynn can never make herself believe the passion is real. One more job. That's all she needs to ensure her family's financial future. And California is just teeming with gold. There, her daring impersonation will fool everyone...except one man. He has sworn never to forgive. Mara didn't plan for Nicholas Chantale, though. He has hunted her from the steamy streets of New Orleans all the way to the blinding brilliance of California gold country, only to have his dreams of vengeance crushed when he meets her in the flesh. For though he was sworn to kill her, she was the love he would die for. Praise for Laurie McBain: "Ms. McBain's flare for the romantic intermingled with suspense will keep the reader riveted to the story until the last page." -Affaire de Coeur "Vivid sense of description, colorful characters...I found myself happily lost in the magnificence of the storytelling." -Los Angeles Herald Examiner "Well-crafted and wonderfully romantic. Readers are rewarded with teeming atmosphere." -RT Book Reviews
Author | : James Stephens |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1775459608 |
Pass a pleasant afternoon with this delightful collection of short stories. Simple but not simplistic, these diverting tales are rendered in exquisitely rich and often playful language that will have you lingering over sentences and highlighting your favorite passages so you can revisit them again and again. The Crock of Gold is the perfect blend of literary virtuosity and lighthearted fun.
Author | : Martha Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Alaska |
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Author | : Terry Tempest Williams |
Publisher | : Sarah Crichton Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2016-05-31 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0374712263 |
America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.