Author: Warwick Sprawson
Publisher: Red Dog Books
ISBN: 1742591094
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Discover one of the world¿s greatest walks: Tasmania's Overland Track. This compact up-to-date guide provides all the information you need for your trip - getting set, heading off, detailed track notes (including sidetrips), a guide to local flora, fauna, history and geology and a tough waterproof map. With stunning photography and a contemporary design this guide is both inspiring and easy to use.
Overland
Author: Graham Rawle
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473547377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Welcome to Overland! Where the California sun shines down on synthetic grass and plastic oranges bedeck the trees all year round. Steam billows gently from the chimney tops and the blue tarpaulin lake is open for fishing... Hollywood set-designer George Godfrey has been called on to do his patriotic duty and he doesn’t believe in half-measures. If he is going to hide an American aircraft plant from the threat of Japanese aerial spies he has an almighty job on his hands. He will need an army of props and actors to make the Lockheed factory vanish behind the semblance of a suburban town. Every day, his “Residents” climb through a trapdoor in the factory roof to shift model cars, shop for imaginary groceries and rotate fake sheep in felt-green meadows. Overland is a beacon for the young women labouring below it: Queenie, dreaming of movie stardom while welding sheet metal; Kay, who must seek refuge from the order to intern “All Persons of Japanese Ancestry”. Meanwhile, George’s right-hand Resident, Jimmy, knows that High Command aren’t at all happy with the camouflage project... With George so bewitched by his own illusion, might it risk confusing everybody – not just the enemy? Overland is a book like no other -- to be read in landscape format. Based on true events, it is a novel where characters' dreams and desires come down to earth with more than a bump, confronting the hardships of life during wartime. As surreal and playful as it is affecting and unsettling, no-one other than Graham Rawle could have created it.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473547377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Welcome to Overland! Where the California sun shines down on synthetic grass and plastic oranges bedeck the trees all year round. Steam billows gently from the chimney tops and the blue tarpaulin lake is open for fishing... Hollywood set-designer George Godfrey has been called on to do his patriotic duty and he doesn’t believe in half-measures. If he is going to hide an American aircraft plant from the threat of Japanese aerial spies he has an almighty job on his hands. He will need an army of props and actors to make the Lockheed factory vanish behind the semblance of a suburban town. Every day, his “Residents” climb through a trapdoor in the factory roof to shift model cars, shop for imaginary groceries and rotate fake sheep in felt-green meadows. Overland is a beacon for the young women labouring below it: Queenie, dreaming of movie stardom while welding sheet metal; Kay, who must seek refuge from the order to intern “All Persons of Japanese Ancestry”. Meanwhile, George’s right-hand Resident, Jimmy, knows that High Command aren’t at all happy with the camouflage project... With George so bewitched by his own illusion, might it risk confusing everybody – not just the enemy? Overland is a book like no other -- to be read in landscape format. Based on true events, it is a novel where characters' dreams and desires come down to earth with more than a bump, confronting the hardships of life during wartime. As surreal and playful as it is affecting and unsettling, no-one other than Graham Rawle could have created it.
Women and Men on the Overland Trail
Author: John Mack Faragher
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
Hiking the Overland Track
Author: Warwick Sprawson
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN: 1783628227
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A guidebook to the Overland Track between Ronny Creek in Cradle Valley and Cynthia Bay on Lake St Clair. Covering 80km (50 miles), this long-distance trek through Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park is suitable for most hikers with average fitness and can be walked in 5–9 days. The route is described in 7 stages, each between 8 and 17km (5–11 miles) in length. Optional sidetrips to the area's many accessible peaks including Mt Ossa are also described. 1:50,000 maps included for each stage Detailed information on Overland huts and facilities along the route Advice on trekking permits, planning and preparation Highlights include Mt Oakleigh and D’Alton
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN: 1783628227
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A guidebook to the Overland Track between Ronny Creek in Cradle Valley and Cynthia Bay on Lake St Clair. Covering 80km (50 miles), this long-distance trek through Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park is suitable for most hikers with average fitness and can be walked in 5–9 days. The route is described in 7 stages, each between 8 and 17km (5–11 miles) in length. Optional sidetrips to the area's many accessible peaks including Mt Ossa are also described. 1:50,000 maps included for each stage Detailed information on Overland huts and facilities along the route Advice on trekking permits, planning and preparation Highlights include Mt Oakleigh and D’Alton
The Overland Escape
Author: Lee Roddy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556610264
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Hildy Corrigan, almost a teenager, returns home to discover that her stepmother has abandoned her and taken her brother and four sisters. Fighting anger and self-blame, Hildy refuses to stay with her backwoods grandmother and runs away with her cousin Ruby in hopes of finding her family.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556610264
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Hildy Corrigan, almost a teenager, returns home to discover that her stepmother has abandoned her and taken her brother and four sisters. Fighting anger and self-blame, Hildy refuses to stay with her backwoods grandmother and runs away with her cousin Ruby in hopes of finding her family.
Battle at the Overland Trail
Author: Jason Abady
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936553266
Category : Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, Guadalcanal was of pivotal importance for both Japan and the United States. Of major importance was access and control of Henderson Airfield. The first three major land engagements were: Battle at Tenaru River (August 21) -- Bloody Ridge and Overland Trail (September 12-16) and Matanikau River (October 1942) all engaged to protect this airstrip. If the Japanese had control of this airfield, they could cut off supplies between America and its allies in the area, preventing other islands from coming under U.S. control. A single line of Marines prevented the Japanese from seizing the prized territory lead by Lt. Bill Sager and 2nd Lt. Herman Abady. Battle at the Overland Trail documents this one night of critical combat which would come to be known as the Island of Death. It includes many letters, diary excerpts and photos never before released to the public.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936553266
Category : Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, Guadalcanal was of pivotal importance for both Japan and the United States. Of major importance was access and control of Henderson Airfield. The first three major land engagements were: Battle at Tenaru River (August 21) -- Bloody Ridge and Overland Trail (September 12-16) and Matanikau River (October 1942) all engaged to protect this airstrip. If the Japanese had control of this airfield, they could cut off supplies between America and its allies in the area, preventing other islands from coming under U.S. control. A single line of Marines prevented the Japanese from seizing the prized territory lead by Lt. Bill Sager and 2nd Lt. Herman Abady. Battle at the Overland Trail documents this one night of critical combat which would come to be known as the Island of Death. It includes many letters, diary excerpts and photos never before released to the public.
Emigrants on the Overland Trail
Author: Michael E. LaSalle
Publisher: Truman State Univ Press
ISBN: 9781935503958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Presenting the “lost” year of the overland emigrants in 1848, this volume sheds light on the journey of the men, women, children, and the wagon trains that made the challenging trek from Missouri to Oregon and California. These primary sources, written by seven men and women diarists from different wagon companies, tell how settlers endured the tribulations of a five-month westward journey covering 2,000 miles. These intrepid souls include a young mother, a French priest, a college-educated teacher, and an ox driver. Subjected to the extremes of fear, failure, suffering, and hope, they persevered and finally triumphed.
Publisher: Truman State Univ Press
ISBN: 9781935503958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Presenting the “lost” year of the overland emigrants in 1848, this volume sheds light on the journey of the men, women, children, and the wagon trains that made the challenging trek from Missouri to Oregon and California. These primary sources, written by seven men and women diarists from different wagon companies, tell how settlers endured the tribulations of a five-month westward journey covering 2,000 miles. These intrepid souls include a young mother, a French priest, a college-educated teacher, and an ox driver. Subjected to the extremes of fear, failure, suffering, and hope, they persevered and finally triumphed.
The Overland Track
Author: Warwick Sprawson
Publisher: Red Dog Books
ISBN: 1742591094
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Discover one of the world¿s greatest walks: Tasmania's Overland Track. This compact up-to-date guide provides all the information you need for your trip - getting set, heading off, detailed track notes (including sidetrips), a guide to local flora, fauna, history and geology and a tough waterproof map. With stunning photography and a contemporary design this guide is both inspiring and easy to use.
Publisher: Red Dog Books
ISBN: 1742591094
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Discover one of the world¿s greatest walks: Tasmania's Overland Track. This compact up-to-date guide provides all the information you need for your trip - getting set, heading off, detailed track notes (including sidetrips), a guide to local flora, fauna, history and geology and a tough waterproof map. With stunning photography and a contemporary design this guide is both inspiring and easy to use.
Watershed Models
Author: Vijay P. Singh
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420037439
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Watershed modeling is at the heart of modern hydrology, supplying rich information that is vital to addressing resource planning, environmental, and social problems. Even in light of this important role, many books relegate the subject to a single chapter while books devoted to modeling focus only on a specific area of application. Recognizing the
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420037439
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Watershed modeling is at the heart of modern hydrology, supplying rich information that is vital to addressing resource planning, environmental, and social problems. Even in light of this important role, many books relegate the subject to a single chapter while books devoted to modeling focus only on a specific area of application. Recognizing the
Decisions
Author: United States. Federal Maritime Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Collier's
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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