Author: Daniel Kinnear Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the system, with accounts of the various modes of traction (including horse-power, steam, heated-water, and compressed air locomotives, cable traction, and electric traction). A description of the varieties of rolling stock and ample details of cost and working expenses.
Neversink
Author: Barry Wolverton
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
ISBN: 9780062027917
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, whose jagged cliffs and ice-gouged rocks are home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have few concerns—few, save for Lockley's two best friends, Egbert and Ruby, a know-it-all walrus and a sharp-tongued hummingbird. But all of this is about to change. Rozbell, the newly crowned king of the Owl Parliament, is dealing with a famine on the mainland of Tytonia—and he has long had his scheming eyes on the small colony to the north. Now Neversink's independence hangs in the balance. An insurgence of owls will inevitably destroy life as the auks know it—unless Lockley can do something about it. Barry Wolverton's debut is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish.
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
ISBN: 9780062027917
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, whose jagged cliffs and ice-gouged rocks are home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have few concerns—few, save for Lockley's two best friends, Egbert and Ruby, a know-it-all walrus and a sharp-tongued hummingbird. But all of this is about to change. Rozbell, the newly crowned king of the Owl Parliament, is dealing with a famine on the mainland of Tytonia—and he has long had his scheming eyes on the small colony to the north. Now Neversink's independence hangs in the balance. An insurgence of owls will inevitably destroy life as the auks know it—unless Lockley can do something about it. Barry Wolverton's debut is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish.
Definitely Maybe
Author: Arkady Strugatsky
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
In its first-ever unexpurgated edition, a sci-fi landmark that's a comic and suspenseful tour-de-force, and puts distraction in a whole new light: It's not you, it's the universe! Boris and Arkady Strugatsky were the greatest science fiction writers of the Soviet era: their books were intellectually provocative and riotously funny, full of boldly imagined scenarios and veiled—but clear—social criticism. Which may be why Definitely Maybe has never before been available in an uncensored edition, let alone in English. It tells the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov, who has sent his wife and son off to her mother’s house in Odessa so that he can work, free from distractions, on the project he’s sure will win him the Nobel Prize. But he’d have an easier time making progress if he wasn’t being interrupted all the time: First, it’s the unexpected delivery of a crate of vodka and caviar. Then a beautiful young woman in an unnervingly short skirt shows up at his door. Then several of his friends—also scientists—drop by, saying they all felt they were on the verge of a major discovery when they got . . . distracted . . . Is there an ominous force that doesn’t want knowledge to progress? Or could it be something more . . . natural? In this nail-bitingly suspenseful book, the Strugatsky brothers bravely and brilliantly question authority: an authority that starts with crates of vodka, but has lightning bolts in store for humans who refuse to be cowed.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
In its first-ever unexpurgated edition, a sci-fi landmark that's a comic and suspenseful tour-de-force, and puts distraction in a whole new light: It's not you, it's the universe! Boris and Arkady Strugatsky were the greatest science fiction writers of the Soviet era: their books were intellectually provocative and riotously funny, full of boldly imagined scenarios and veiled—but clear—social criticism. Which may be why Definitely Maybe has never before been available in an uncensored edition, let alone in English. It tells the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov, who has sent his wife and son off to her mother’s house in Odessa so that he can work, free from distractions, on the project he’s sure will win him the Nobel Prize. But he’d have an easier time making progress if he wasn’t being interrupted all the time: First, it’s the unexpected delivery of a crate of vodka and caviar. Then a beautiful young woman in an unnervingly short skirt shows up at his door. Then several of his friends—also scientists—drop by, saying they all felt they were on the verge of a major discovery when they got . . . distracted . . . Is there an ominous force that doesn’t want knowledge to progress? Or could it be something more . . . natural? In this nail-bitingly suspenseful book, the Strugatsky brothers bravely and brilliantly question authority: an authority that starts with crates of vodka, but has lightning bolts in store for humans who refuse to be cowed.
The Book of Khalid
Author: Ameen Rihani
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732680789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732680789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani
Tramways
Author: Daniel Kinnear Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the system, with accounts of the various modes of traction (including horse-power, steam, heated-water, and compressed air locomotives, cable traction, and electric traction). A description of the varieties of rolling stock and ample details of cost and working expenses.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the system, with accounts of the various modes of traction (including horse-power, steam, heated-water, and compressed air locomotives, cable traction, and electric traction). A description of the varieties of rolling stock and ample details of cost and working expenses.
Floating in the Neversink
Author: Andrea Simon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684333493
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A novel-in-stories, Floating in the Neversink follows a sensitive and impressionable young Jewish girl, Amanda Gerber, through the evocative world of Brooklyn's Flatbush interspersed with summers in the Catskill Mountains from 1955-1961, a time of veiled innocence and impending turbulence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684333493
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A novel-in-stories, Floating in the Neversink follows a sensitive and impressionable young Jewish girl, Amanda Gerber, through the evocative world of Brooklyn's Flatbush interspersed with summers in the Catskill Mountains from 1955-1961, a time of veiled innocence and impending turbulence.
Field & Stream
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
Flyfisher's Guide to New York
Author: Eric Newman
Publisher: Wilderness Adventures Press
ISBN: 1932098798
Category : Fly fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Second Edition of Flyfisher's Guide to New York with detailed maps, hatch charts and travel information
Publisher: Wilderness Adventures Press
ISBN: 1932098798
Category : Fly fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Second Edition of Flyfisher's Guide to New York with detailed maps, hatch charts and travel information
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1824
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1824
Book Description
Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor for the Fiscal Year Ending ...
Author: New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description