Author: Charles V. de Vet
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776672313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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In this perplexing science-fiction short story, an intrepid interplanetary explorer named Kaiser suddenly comes to his senses after a scouting mission has gone horribly awry -- only to discover that his messages back to the mother ship have become garbled and incoherent, as if someone else was sending them. Who is this mysterious interloper?
Author: Sue Valerian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614229148
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Languages : en
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Author: Peter Holt
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780099958109
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society
Publisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Author: Dan & Connie Burkhardt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692691441
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Languages : en
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Author: Xavier O Selfe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781532350153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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BIG MUDDY is the second novel about a unique, fictionalized journey taken by Xavier Owen Selfe down the mighty Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, a risky raft trip taken while he was still an impetuous young man fresh out of art school. Selfe, a shy Missourian whose first literary foray was the novel, DELUSIONAL, an odyssey that also ends with a twist. His career as a visual artist has been widely celebrated for 40 years in university exhibitions in several states and countries in Europe and South America, highlighted by a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Award, among others. An homage to another old Missourian, BIG MUDDY paints a darker modern patina on Mark Twain's most famous classic novel.
Author: Gregory N Richardson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483468224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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This book presents the stories of the first six generations of the Richardson branch of the author's family in North America. The story begins in 1774 when John Richardson travels from Yorkshire, England to what became Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. Settling on land originally homesteaded by politically displaced Acadians, John and two subsequent generations of Christopher's spend their lives farming in Sackville. In 1883, Robert Hay, John's great grandson, moves his family from their farm in Sackville to a homestead 3 miles east of Custer City, South Dakota in the heart of the Black Hills. While failing in its goal of saving Robert's wife Annie from Tuberculosis, it brought our family to the American West. After his death in 1897, three of Robert's sons, Fred, Bob, and Will, joined forces to create the Richardson Brothers Ranch in the Big Muddy Valley in what is now Sheridan County, Montana.
Author: chad lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733802604
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Languages : en
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Author: Christopher Morris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199977062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society. Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at the lower Mississippi Valley, he found an incredibly vast wetland, forty thousand square miles of some of the richest, wettest land in North America, deposited there by the big muddy river that ran through it. But since then much has changed, for the river and for the surrounding valley. Indeed, by the 1890s, the valley was rapidly drying. Morris shows how centuries of increasingly intensified human meddling--including deforestation, swamp drainage, and levee construction--led to drought, disease, and severe flooding. He outlines the damage done by the introduction of foreign species, such as the Argentine nutria, which escaped into the wild and are now busy eating up Louisiana's wetlands. And he critiques the most monumental change in the lower Mississippi Valley--the reconstruction of the river itself, largely under the direction of the Army Corps of Engineers. Valley residents have been paying the price for these human interventions, most visibly with the disaster that followed Hurricane Katrina. Morris also describes how valley residents have been struggling to reinvigorate the valley environment in recent years--such as with the burgeoning catfish and crawfish industries--so that they may once again live off its natural abundance. Morris concludes that the problem with Katrina is the problem with the Amazon Rainforest, drought and famine in Africa, and fires and mudslides in California--it is the end result of the ill-considered bending of natural environments to human purposes.
Author: Elizabeth Withey
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459818571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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A child tries to understand the life of a man he has seen sleeping under a bridge. The boy’s mother patiently answers his questions and explains how people’s life paths can be so different. The child observes the things he has in common with the man and wonders where his own path will lead. The One With the Scraggly Beard is defined by a simple narrative in which a child’s curiosity and perceptiveness act as catalysts for understanding fear, suffering and resilience while exploring themes of homelessness, belonging and compassion. This unique book will speak to children and adults alike. A note from the author explains how the origin of this story is rooted in her own life.
