Author: Peter F. Copeland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486233932
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Morgan, Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, others in 44 accurate plates. Shown in color on covers. Captions.
Author: Bruce A. Haak
Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This is an intimate story of biology student developing both his knowledge of the prairie falcon and his own philosophical outlook on the natural world. Author Bruce Haak shares his passion for the prairie falcon and its habitat in this fascinating story of his journey to understand and record the behavior of this spirited bird of prey. Bruce Haak is a biologist and a falconer. But in this book, he reveals himself as a wonderful writer and a biophiliac: a person who loves nature and sees all its connections with a child's sense of wonder, a hunter's passion, and a scientist's knowledge. In this autobiographical account of research on the prairie falcon in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, Bruce Haak follows in the tradition of JA O'Brien (The Peregrine), Ronald Stevens (Laggard), and Dan O'Brien (The Rites of Autumn), by blending a deep appreciation for the outdoors and for falcons into some of the best nature writing of the late twentieth century. Full of interesting encounters with the wildlife of the high desert, the book focuses most informatively on its central image, the prairie falcon, and leads to new insights into the behavior and ecology of this remarkable raptor.
Author: James F. Hoy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806120645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Author: W. C. Jameson
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834864
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Relates local legends of hidden fortunes and lost treasures left behind by outlaws, pioneers, and prospectors
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Author: Aaron Reynolds
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307981711
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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It is a sad and sorry day when Burnt Beard the Pirate and his scurvy crew swagger into Old Cheyenne looking to bury their treasure. Black Bob McKraw—terror of the Wild West—and his posse don't take too kindly to pirates invading their town. And to add insult to injury, the pirates and cowboys can't understand a lick of what the others are saying. None of them cowboys speak Pirate, and none of them pirates speak Cowboy. Who will save the day before these sorry—and stinky!—bilge rats and yellow-bellied varmints draw their cutlasses and six-shooters? From the creator of the hilarious Creepy Carrots, comes the story of a simple misunderstanding that almost meant the end of Old Cheyenne.
Author: William Morris
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: Hugh Cook
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411685849
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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This massive novel of 57 chapters and about 250,000 words is the story of a barbarian named Guest Gulkan. Before buying, see the free PDF file at zenvirus.com/witchlord to check if the book format is okay for you. The PDF contains the front matter and the first chapter. Format: 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches tall.
Author: Mark G. Hanna
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469617951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns. English piracy and unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in the North American colonies. Sea marauders represented a real as well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies. Departing from previous understandings of deep-sea marauding, this study reveals the full scope of pirates' activities in relation to the landed communities that they serviced and their impact on patterns of development that formed early America and the British Empire.
