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The Woods
Author | : Amber McMillan |
Publsiher | : Harbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780889711051 |
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"The Woods is the cure-all to Perfect Island Getaway nostalgia. It's a story of everyday domestic survival, peopled by both loveable eccentrics and possibly murdersome cranks, foregrounding the little-known history of violence on Protection Island. Amber McMillan's writing balances an eye for the unusual and resiliently beautiful with a sympathy for the frailties common to all her islanders." —Kevin Chong, author of Baroque-a-Nova, Neil Young Nation and Beauty Plus Pity * The Woods: A Year on Protection Island is a book of non-fiction stories that probes and witnesses the unique and sometimes unsettling atmosphere of small town-island life in the Georgia Strait. The measure of one’s success here doesn’t rely on status or income, but on the skillful handling of neighbours, the resourcefulness for survival, and the adaptation to both the rigorous outdoors of the Pacific Northwest and equally challenging human community of need, trade, and negotiated civility. These are stories of the people and families who sought refuge here, for different reasons and with different outcomes: Keith, a cross-dressing retired sea captain who can’t overcome the death of his wife; Steve, the contractor who escapes his deaf wife and the silence of his domestic life by perfecting his physical property, using only the loudest of electric chainsaws and lawnmowers from morning until dusk; Cris, the seventy-six-year-old library curator who has recently discovered scotch whiskey and sex again after twenty-five years; and of various other transplants making their way through the murky terrain of living on an island. Like no other community on Earth, this small place is packed with secret corners, eerie histories and a whispering darkness. This is the complicated convergence of human capacities: from homicides (both in the same house, unrelated and years apart) to some of the greatest gestures of generosity, social reform and equality. This is the place of the close-up encounter of who we are stripped of distractions and escapist entertainment; who we are in the woods.
Report of the Commissioner for
Author | : United States Fish Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 938 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Fisheries |
ISBN | : UOM:39015053244441 |
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Lost Woods
Author | : Rachel Carson |
Publsiher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780807095447 |
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Discover the previously uncollected works of the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring—considered one of the best nature writers of the 20th century. "Lyric, descriptive, informative, and moving."—The New York Times When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This anthology of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life. Featuring nature writing, speeches, field notebook passages, and letters, this collection is an invaluable insight to Carson's thought and philosophy and a treasure trove for environmentalists.
International Code of Signals American Edition
Author | : United States. Hydrographic Office |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105126815260 |
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The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods
Author | : Andrew M. Barton |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781584658320 |
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The ecology of the ever-changing Maine forest
Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into which the Exhibition was Divided
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1026 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Calotype |
ISBN | : UCAL:C3099681 |
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Fire in the Woods
Author | : James De Mille |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2023-03-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783382142179 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
People and Woods in Scotland
Author | : T. C. Smout |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-08-07 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781474472722 |
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This is a history of the trees, woodlands and forests of Scotland and of the people who used them. It begins 11,500 years ago when the ice sheet melted and trees such as hazel, pine, ash and oak returned, bringing with them first birds and mammals and, soon after, the first hunter-gathering humans. The book charts and explains the almost complete withdrawal of tree cover in Scotland over the following millennia, considers the revival of forests and woodlands in the twentieth century, and ends by examining the changes under way now. The book is intended for everyone interested in Scotland's natural history. It calls on an expert in pollen analysis to examine ancient patterns of woodland distribution; on archaeologists to describe how wood was put to good purpose, especially for buildings; on historians and foresters to explain how trees and woods have been exploited and enjoyed over the ages: on ecologists to show how the histories of people and woods are inseparably linked in Scotland; and on a geographer to consider how the Scottish landscape may react to changing policy, attitudes, populations, and climate. The text is fully illustrated by maps and photographs, in colour and black and white. The book has appendixes listing the native and imported species of trees and shrubs in Scotland, and ends with an extensive guide to further reading arranged by subject.