The Unforgiving Wind

The Unforgiving Wind PDF Author: John Harris
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755147480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Book Description
Charting the disastrous expedition of Commander Adams, this novel follows the misfortunes of his men across the Arctic. Whatever can go wrong does go wrong as transport, instruments, health and sanity begin to fail. Only one man can rescue them, the truculent Tom Fife who responds to faint radio signals from the Arctic shores.

The Unforgiving Wind

The Unforgiving Wind PDF Author: John Harris
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755147480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Book Description
Charting the disastrous expedition of Commander Adams, this novel follows the misfortunes of his men across the Arctic. Whatever can go wrong does go wrong as transport, instruments, health and sanity begin to fail. Only one man can rescue them, the truculent Tom Fife who responds to faint radio signals from the Arctic shores.

Leaning Into the Wind

Leaning Into the Wind PDF Author: Linda M. Hasselstrom
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395901311
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Originally published in 1997 by Houghton Mifflin, this is a collection of true stories, essays and poems which tell of the glories and rigours of living close to the land.

Brother Wind

Brother Wind PDF Author: Sue Harrison
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480411930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 615

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DIVDIVAs two women from different Aleut tribes struggle against their harsh fates, they find their extraordinary destinies intertwined/divDIV In the tribe of the First Men, courageous, beautiful Kiin, an accomplished ivory carver, is finally content with her hard-won life, which includes twin sons and a loving warrior husband. When she is suddenly pulled back into her nightmarish former existence as slave to the Raven, shaman of the Walrus People, her husband’s brother, Samiq, vows to bring her back to their tribe. Across the land, Kukutux, the wife of a Whale Hunter, finds the loss of her husband and the hostility of her clan too much to bear. The lives of Kiin, Samiq, and Kukutux, and the paths of their tribesmen will converge in a final dramatic confrontation that tests the strength of their hearts and spirits against the cruelty of man, nature, and fate./divDIV /divDIVBrother Wind is the final book of the Ivory Carver Trilogy, which also includes Mother Earth Father Sky and My Sister the Moon./div/div

The Great Texas Wind Rush

The Great Texas Wind Rush PDF Author: Kate Galbraith
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292748809
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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From two environmental journalists, “the improbable story of how the oil and gas state became the nation’s wind-power leader” (The Texas Observer). In the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas’s latest boom. How did this dramatic transformation happen in a state that fights federal environmental policies at every turn? In The Great Texas Wind Rush, environmental reporters Kate Galbraith and Asher Price tell the compelling story of a group of unlikely dreamers and innovators, politicos and profiteers. The tale spans a generation and more, and it begins with the early wind pioneers, precocious idealists who saw opportunity after the 1970s oil crisis. Operating in an economy accustomed to exploiting natural resources and always looking for the next big thing, their ideas eventually led to surprising partnerships between entrepreneurs and environmentalists, as everyone from Enron executives to T. Boone Pickens, as well as Ann Richards, George W. Bush and Rick Perry, ended up backing the new technology. In this down-to-earth account, the authors explain the policies and science that propelled the “windcatters” to reap the great harvest of Texas wind. They also explore what the future holds for this relentless resource that is changing the face of Texas energy. “Enjoyable to read. . . . I learned something on every page.” —Michael Webber, Associate Director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Texas at Austin “A thoughtful, valuable story for anyone who cares about renewable energy or climate change.” ―The Associated Press

A Deadly Wind

A Deadly Wind PDF Author: John Dodge (Columnist)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870719288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Introduction -- Out on a limb -- Tracking typhoon freda -- Countdown to calamity -- Death comes to Eugene -- Coastal chaos -- Ground zero -- A wind like no other -- Fallen forests -- The wind and wine -- Bridgetown under siege -- Life turns on a dime -- Lions in the wind -- It happened at the fair (buon gusto) -- Terror in Stanley Park -- Stormy aftermath -- Epilogue

Banjawarn

Banjawarn PDF Author: Josh Kemp
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 1760802247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Heading north through Kalgoorlie, he attempts to score off old friends from his shearing days on Banjawarn Station. His journey takes an unexpected detour when he discovers an abandoned ten-year-old girl and decides to return her to her estranged father in Leonora, instead of alerting authorities. Together they begin the road trip from hell through the scorched heart of the state’s northern goldfields. Love, friendship and hope are often found in the strangest places, but forgiveness is never simple, and the past lies buried just beneath the blood red topsoil. The only question is whether Hoyle should uncover it, or run as fast as his legs can take him. Banjawarn is an unsettling debut from Josh Kemp, winner of the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Echoing Cormac McCarthy’s haunting border trilogy and narrative vernacular that recalls the sparse lyricism of Randolph Stow and Tim Winton, this is a darkly funny novel that earns its place amongst the stable of Australian gothic fiction.

Merlyn's Mind

Merlyn's Mind PDF Author: Richard Orndorff
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595481531
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Merlyn's Mind completes the original trilogy of segmented story-dreams by the sixth century Merlyn, the Scotsman. The Present, real time story-dream brothers, Robert the poet and Richard the writer, continue their theoretical discussions in real time from May 2007 into late February 2008. The Past, with Grandma's Stories begin with Lady Allowyn and Sir Geoffrey in the sixteenth century and works her way into the twentieth century where Grandma Earth ends her genealogical narratives with the nineteen year olds Robert and Richard Graystone and their future wives, Connie and Cindy Bleacher, at the dining room table celebrating the late FDR's January birthday with their respective parents and grandparents, first in 1960, then again in 1961. Thus, old Grandma completes word-filled human snapshots, fruitfully linking the Graystone and Bleacher generations from 12,000 years ago in the first book to the present, 2008, in the third book. Merlyn's suggestive Future, titled 'Pouch Text, ' concludes with all the major characters alive but one. The family group ( a mixture of human beings and their physically and mentally human-like marsupial counterparts from HomePlanets across the Milky Way galaxy) focus on raising seven year old Diplomat, a hybrid of both species and cultures, on Earth.

Windborne

Windborne PDF Author: Philip Fair
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595387446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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A compelling tale of love, battle, and faith, Windborne is set in a land of flying warriors, locked in a seemingly endless conflict over an ever-changing border, a war that has gone on long enough that even the combatants are no longer sure of their goals or the endgame. Wilford is a shy young villager, pulled into the struggle as a cadet, and turned into a vicious killer, the pride of his captains, by the tragedies of war. Saved by people of faith from his hopelessly murderous existence, he re-enters the war, baptized with the Spirit and the desire to end the bloodshed. Besides the obvious enemy across the border, he faces belligerent superiors, traitors in the ranks, and personal loss. Through hard work, faith, loyal friends, his own fighting prowess, and the grace of God, he ascends the ranks, determined to bring a victorious peace.

The Lost Tavern

The Lost Tavern PDF Author: Chris Kelly
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1452082103
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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When young Maria Hallett meets the worldly Sam Bellamy and they fall in love, the stage is set for heartbreak, a tragic betrayal, the wreck of a fabulous pirate ship, and a fiery conclusion. Set in colonial America and ranging from Boston to Cape Cod to the Caribbean, The Lost Tavern, a historical fiction, encompasses in 250 pages the worlds of two lovers, pirate crews, and an evolving New England culture of merchants, seamen, and already vanishing Indian tribes. All of these worlds come together in one way or another at Samuel Smith's island tavern, which was rediscovered and excavated in the 1970's. During the excavation a shattered skull was discovered in the basement, a detail that figures prominently at the end of the novel. The tale is based on the legendary escapades of the notorious pirate, Sam Bellamy, and his relationship to his young lover, but it employs a large canvas. While taking liberties with the legend, the novel is true to the historical context, to pirate lore, and to the dangers they face both on the seas and on the land.

The Gathering

The Gathering PDF Author: Paul Hacker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796088722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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The first of the trilogy, The Gathering: The Quest for the Steel, told a story of two young boys thrusted in to an adventure, with action-packed fighting and drama. The story continues with the sequel, The Haugernaut Wars. Find out what fate had brought the two boys. Discover new characters, as the salvation of Stelvose had taken a darken turn to the worst. Will the righteous prevail over Evil, or will chaos be the lay of the land. There is an adventure around every corner, with magic, love, gallantry, and treachery being a part of the story. The story will submerge you into parallel adventures that are on a collision course. Continue the adventure! Enjoy the Sequel!