Author: Susan Mallgrave
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Principal People, known as Cherokees by others, have lived for millennia in the place they call the Land of the Blue Mist. Much of their ancestral land has been taken, over decades. But still more land is demanded.Aster Sweetwater comes of age in this time of fierce pressures on her tribe in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sent to boarding school to learn so-called civilized ways, she returns home to help her people fight forced removal from their mountains and valleys.But after gold is discovered in Georgia in 1828 and the Indian Removal Act is passed two years later, the crisis intensifies, ending with U.S. troops invading Aster's village.Not all Cherokees will travel the deadly Trail of Tears to the West. Having escaped capture, but with her family torn apart and her life shattered, Aster must find a way for a remnant of her people to survive in the Land of the Blue Mist.
Author: Patrick Carman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0439899982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Captain Roland Warvold tells Alexa and Yipes about the adventures he shared with his brother Thomas in Elyon, before the wall went up and divided the world in two.
Author: Debra Doyle
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061860549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Called to duty at last, Lieutenant John Nevis faces his assignment with trepidation. Boarding the USS Nicodemus—a sloop of war built in a single night at the top of the world—Nevis wonders uneasily at its strange aura of power, its cannonballs of virgin brass . . . and its uncanny ability to glide swiftly through the waters without steam or sail. As great armies clash all around them, the mission of Lieutenant Nevis and the Nicodemus crew is shrouded in an impenetrable gray mist of magic and malevolence. For a fearsome adversary awaits on roiling waves—an awesomely powerful vessel fueled by cruelty and terror; a demon raider driven by an insatiable lust . . . for blood.
Author: John Nolt
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572333260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Cherokees called the magnificent mountain range in eastern Tennessee "land ofthe blue mist," which European settlers later changed to "Smoky Mountains."Today, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of SouthernAppalachia's leading tourist attractions. But that fabled blue mist isn't so blue-- orhealthy-- any longer. Particularly in the summer months, the "smoke" of the Smokies isa haze of sulfate particles and other pollutants released by coal-burning power plants, amixture more likely to create dangerous ozone levels for visiting tourists than the invigorating "mountain air" so many come to seek.It is a story common throughout Southern Appalachia, one of America's most beautiful, biologically diverse, and fragile bioregions. A Land Imperiled is a symptom-by-symptomlook at the myriad of ecological issues threatening the health of the southernhigh country. Sections on air, water, plants and animals, food, energy, waste, transportation, and population and urbanization make this the most comprehensive environmentalstudy of Southern Appalachia to date-- a much-needed wake-up call for anyone concernedabout the region's natural legacy.But it is not just the future we have to worry about, the author asserts; pollution, development, and other forms of degradation are already affecting our quality of life. Theexcessively high ozone levels plaguing the Smokies have been connected to a host of respiratory problems, including chronic bronchitis and asthma. Once-crystal streams aregreen and sluggish with runoff from agricultural wastes. Over half of the South's naturalforests are gone, and a mere 2 percent of the remaining forests have protected status.The environment of Southern Appalachia is a collection of complex, interrelatedsystems that needs care and protection to function in full health. A Land Imperiled notonly illustrates the many ways in which the health of this bioregion is being affected, but also provides examples of how the damage can be reversed to sustain ourselves andthis natural treas
Author: Daniel E Jacobson
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
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He woke up a character in his own, newly created novel. Now in the land of 6-legged creatures, dactyls and bandits, he wants nothing more than to be home with his wife, daughter, and a good cup of coffee. If you enjoyed the harrowing escapes and great adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan" or the exotic creatures and mysterious quests of Robert A. Heinlein's "Glory Road" (Hugo Award for Best Novel Nominee for Fantasy and Science Fiction), you will enjoy the exploits of Gregg and Abuc as they journey through the Republic of Sodofdennac. You will feel joy and fear and triumph with the heroes as they learn values of friendship and loyalty. In this book, Jacobson uses humor and wild adventures to bring you a reprieve from a tumultuous world, while also reminding you of the likeable heroes in your own life.
Author: Peter Bishop
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1786290375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Nobody ever suspected that a secret lay hidden in the picture that Zivilia had inherited from her mother. That it had been painted in the land of Blue Mists, a strange hermit kingdom that lay on the other side of the world, had been long forgotten. Besides, Zivilia knew nothing of the country’s blood-splattered history, or the disruption caused by the League of Ausburg and their traders in the brief period when they were there many years ago. Thus learning her painting held clues as to where to find a lost relict came as a total surprise to her. People in the know seemed to think that it was buried somewhere in that mysterious island archipelago. There was astonishment that her religious order should decide to commission her to locate and then retrieve it. The task could have easily be given to another deemed to be more suitable. How then was she to travel there with her flying fox animal companion Fluffy? Had one of the Divines known that she would need one day to make the voyage there? The answer surely must be ‘Yes.’ Why else would she have made friends with the crew of the small trading ship ‘The Dark Sun’ years ago? Like many things the long journey to solve the mystery and recover the relict wasn’t that straight forward. But then life never is! Is it?
Author: Francis E. Caldwell
Publisher: ProStar Publications
ISBN: 9781577853497
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Explore the fabulous, seldom-visited Pacific Ocean section of Glacier Bay National Park-a land of historic mysteries, thundering seas and great natural beauty. Includes maps and black-and-white and color photographs.
Author: Blair Niles
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434974693
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America.
