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ISBN: 9781732396722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Torch Lake Summers
Author: Michigan Summer Resorts
Author: Michigan, a Summer and Health Resort State
Author: Michigan. State Board of HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Saving Arcadia
Author: Heather ShumakerPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814342051
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand dune on Lake Michigan and the people who care about it. Author and narrator Heather Shumaker shares the remarkable untold stories behind protecting land and creating new nature preserves. Written in a compelling narrative style, the book is intended in part as a case study for landscape-level conservation and documents the challenges of integrating economic livelihoods into conservation and what it really means to “preserve” land over time. This is the story of a small band of determined townspeople and how far they went to save beloved land and endangered species from the grip of a powerful corporation. Saving Arcadia is a narrative with roots as deep as the trees the community is trying to save; something set in motion before the author was even born. And yet, Shumaker gives a human face to the changing nature of land conservation in the twenty-first century. Throughout this chronicle we meet people like Elaine, a nineteen-year-old farm wife; Dori, a lakeside innkeeper; and Glen, the director of the local land trust. Together with hundreds of others they cross cultural barriers and learn to help one another in an effort to win back the six-thousand-acre landscape taken over by Consumers Power that is now facing grave devastation. The result is a triumph of community that includes working farms, local businesses, summer visitors, year-round residents, and a network of land stewards. A work of creative nonfiction, Saving Arcadia is the adventurous tale of everyday people fighting to reclaim the land that has been in their family for generations. It explores ideas about nature and community, and anyone from scholars of ecology and conservation biology to readers of naturalist writing can gain from Arcadia’s story.
A Handbook of Summer Camps
Author: The Coast of Summer
Author: Anthony BaileyPublisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574090741
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Anthony Bailey was a staff writer for The New Yorker for 35 years and is the author of 18 books, including The Inside Passage.
Almost
Author: Stephen Michael MarekPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462029558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Highflying Midwest business executive Tag Grayson finds nothing more stimulating than seeking, negotiating, and closing a big deal. On the brink of concluding the transaction of his life, Grayson discovers his potential client has a murderous past that has left his mental state unpredictable at best. The shrewd Grayson knows he has his prospective client right where he wants him desperate. Nate Dillianquest knows he is in hot water. With a criminal background overshadowing his future, he is anxious to sell his mother's health-care business after his family's fortune is lost in a pyramid scheme. But as Grayson and Dillianquest finally meet, Grayson has no idea that Dillianquest will do anything to keep what is rightfully his. Suddenly, Grayson is propelled into a web of greed, secrets, and blackmail woven by a conniving southern patriarch and a pair of strikingly beautiful women. Just as Grayson realizes he is dealing with master manipulators who want revenge in the worst way, his life is turned upside down. In this tale of greed, murder, and sexual obsession, members of a wealthy southern family draw an innocent business executive into their deceptive trap as one of them attempts to escape with millions in blood money.
Michigan in Summer
Author: Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Intelligence
Author: The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega
Author: Alpha Chi OmegaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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