Author: Mark Peters
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 035934612X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A young man grows up in the 1960s with the guidance of his unusual uncle. Together they explore the wilderness of northwest Manitoba by canoe, build a cabin in northeast Minnesota and come to know each other deeply through the young man's letters as an infantryman in the Mekong Delta.
Between Thought and the Treetops
Author: Mark Peters
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 035934612X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A young man grows up in the 1960s with the guidance of his unusual uncle. Together they explore the wilderness of northwest Manitoba by canoe, build a cabin in northeast Minnesota and come to know each other deeply through the young man's letters as an infantryman in the Mekong Delta.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 035934612X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A young man grows up in the 1960s with the guidance of his unusual uncle. Together they explore the wilderness of northwest Manitoba by canoe, build a cabin in northeast Minnesota and come to know each other deeply through the young man's letters as an infantryman in the Mekong Delta.
Red Sings from Treetops
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547562136
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Includes a reader's guide and an author's note.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547562136
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Includes a reader's guide and an author's note.
Afloat in the Forest, Or, A Voyage Among the Tree-tops
Author: Mayne Reid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Vietnam Above the Treetops
Author: John F. Flanagan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313066302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
It is 1966, the war is escalating, and a young Air Force Academy graduate's assignment is to patrol unfriendly territory with six-man hunter-killer teams. As a Forward Air Controller, flying single engine spotter planes, Flanagan is the link between fighter-bomber pilots and ground forces. This autobiographical account recreates the period when Flanagan, assigned to Project Delta, was plunged into major operations in key combat areas. Spectacular airstrikes, team rescues, lost men, thwarted attempts to save comrades--all are recounted here with raw honesty. A factual combat history from one man's perspective, this is also a thoughtful look at the warrior values of bravery, honesty, and integrity. Flanagan examines the influences that help build these values--educational institutions, the military training system (including the service academies), and religion--and reflects on the high cost of abandoning them. In Vietnam Above the Treetops, Flanagan traces his life from adolescence through the training period, combat missions of all kinds, and re-entry into the everyday world. His war tales take us to key regions: from the Demilitarized Zone, south through the Central highlands, and into War Zone C near Cambodia. Flanagan tells the absolute truth of his experience in Vietnam-- call signs, bomb loads, and target coordinates are all historically accurate. He offers observations on the Vietnamese and Korean forces he worked with, comparing Eastern and Western cultures, and he vents his frustrations with the U.S. command structure. Determined to reconstruct the past, Flanagan re-read old letters from Vietnam, examined maps, deciphered pocket diaries, interviewed former comrades, and let his own long-buried memories surface. Flanagan did not find this book easy to write, but he wanted to pay tribute to his fellow warriors, especially those still missing in action; he wanted to exorcise his war nightmares and further understand his experience. Even more important, he needed to communicate the values he and his comrades lived by, in distant jungles where they faced some of the toughest circumstances known to human beings.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313066302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
It is 1966, the war is escalating, and a young Air Force Academy graduate's assignment is to patrol unfriendly territory with six-man hunter-killer teams. As a Forward Air Controller, flying single engine spotter planes, Flanagan is the link between fighter-bomber pilots and ground forces. This autobiographical account recreates the period when Flanagan, assigned to Project Delta, was plunged into major operations in key combat areas. Spectacular airstrikes, team rescues, lost men, thwarted attempts to save comrades--all are recounted here with raw honesty. A factual combat history from one man's perspective, this is also a thoughtful look at the warrior values of bravery, honesty, and integrity. Flanagan examines the influences that help build these values--educational institutions, the military training system (including the service academies), and religion--and reflects on the high cost of abandoning them. In Vietnam Above the Treetops, Flanagan traces his life from adolescence through the training period, combat missions of all kinds, and re-entry into the everyday world. His war tales take us to key regions: from the Demilitarized Zone, south through the Central highlands, and into War Zone C near Cambodia. Flanagan tells the absolute truth of his experience in Vietnam-- call signs, bomb loads, and target coordinates are all historically accurate. He offers observations on the Vietnamese and Korean forces he worked with, comparing Eastern and Western cultures, and he vents his frustrations with the U.S. command structure. Determined to reconstruct the past, Flanagan re-read old letters from Vietnam, examined maps, deciphered pocket diaries, interviewed former comrades, and let his own long-buried memories surface. Flanagan did not find this book easy to write, but he wanted to pay tribute to his fellow warriors, especially those still missing in action; he wanted to exorcise his war nightmares and further understand his experience. Even more important, he needed to communicate the values he and his comrades lived by, in distant jungles where they faced some of the toughest circumstances known to human beings.
Afloat in the Forest: or, A Voyage among the Tree-Tops
Author: Томас Майн Рид
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040495757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040495757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Life in the Treetops
Author: Margaret D. Lowman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300084641
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The tropical botanist shares the story of her adventues doing pioneering ecological research in forest canopies of Australia, Africa, Belize, and the United States.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300084641
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The tropical botanist shares the story of her adventues doing pioneering ecological research in forest canopies of Australia, Africa, Belize, and the United States.
On Jim Corbett's Trail and Other Tales from Tree-tops
Author: A. J. T. Johnsingh
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788178240817
Category : Forest animals
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Essays In This Book Convey The Beauty And Thrill Of Indian Forests And Their Wildlife To The Non-Specialist. Dr. Johnsingh Takes Us For Walks In The Jungle With Him, And We See Through His Trained Eyes What We Would Never Otherwise Look For. In Each Essay He Tracks A Different Animal And Tells Us Not Only Of His Experiences, But Also Of The Habits, Biology And Current Condition Of The Species He Is Discussing.
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788178240817
Category : Forest animals
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Essays In This Book Convey The Beauty And Thrill Of Indian Forests And Their Wildlife To The Non-Specialist. Dr. Johnsingh Takes Us For Walks In The Jungle With Him, And We See Through His Trained Eyes What We Would Never Otherwise Look For. In Each Essay He Tracks A Different Animal And Tells Us Not Only Of His Experiences, But Also Of The Habits, Biology And Current Condition Of The Species He Is Discussing.
Wild Life in the Tree Tops
Author: Charles William Robert Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Tree Tops Tall
Author: Neil Drabble
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783882439175
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tree Tops Tall is a series of pictures made by Neil Drabble over the course of the last few years. It is a collection determined not by the type or site of the trees photographed but instead by the fact that tree tops against a bright sky provide a motif for a certain state of mind, for a formal expression of the self. Each picture has been shot from the standpoint of a child, looking upwards with awe at the wonder and grandeur of the natural world--a perspective similarly communicated by book's large format and its uninterrupted sequence of 40 vivid color images, each spread across a double page. Applying his particularly intimate and studied approach, Drabble has produced a body of work that emphasizes the aesthetic pleasures of seeing and the boundless possibilities of finding beauty in our surroundings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783882439175
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tree Tops Tall is a series of pictures made by Neil Drabble over the course of the last few years. It is a collection determined not by the type or site of the trees photographed but instead by the fact that tree tops against a bright sky provide a motif for a certain state of mind, for a formal expression of the self. Each picture has been shot from the standpoint of a child, looking upwards with awe at the wonder and grandeur of the natural world--a perspective similarly communicated by book's large format and its uninterrupted sequence of 40 vivid color images, each spread across a double page. Applying his particularly intimate and studied approach, Drabble has produced a body of work that emphasizes the aesthetic pleasures of seeing and the boundless possibilities of finding beauty in our surroundings.
Upon the Tree-tops
Author: Harriet Mann Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description