Author: Clara Wimberly
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821758984
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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As wild as the Mississippi, Lily Gaines grew up amid the steamboat traffic of Natchez Under-the-Hill. Her gentle parents let her do as she pleased, but that was before yellow fever swept through the small river town and left young Lily an orphan, faced with a life in the workhouse. And before the arrogant, wealthy Nicholas St. James arrived to keep the promise he'd made to her parents--to look after Lily by making her his wife.
Author: Melissa L. Sevigny
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393868249
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir/Biography A Booklist Top of the List Winner for Nonfiction in 2023 A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 "Thrilling, expertly paced, warmhearted." —Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring forty-three-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon’s secret nooks and crannies. Along the way, they chased a runaway boat, ran the river’s most fearsome rapids, and turned the harshest critic of female river runners into an ally. Clover and Jotter’s plant list, including four new cactus species, would one day become vital for efforts to protect and restore the river ecosystem. Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West, at a time when human influences had begun to change it forever.
Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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"The bride's fate" by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Jennifer Snow
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 036970018X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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They said goodbye years ago, but wedding bells just might remind these ex-lovers that their relationship was never really over… When they were high school sweethearts, Aurora Klein and Tyler Forrester imagined they would spend their entire lives together. Though Aurora’s dreams of going to college went beyond Wild River, Alaska, she would’ve chosen to compromise if it meant staying close to Tyler. Instead, he ended their relationship after graduation. With a broken heart, Aurora moved to California and never planned on looking back. And yet, six years later, Aurora finds herself back in Wild River to serve as maid of honor at her best friend’s wedding. There’s only one problem: Tyler is the best man. Aurora expects an awkward reunion, but she doesn’t count on rekindling the flame that still burns between them…or having to team up with him to search for the runaway bride! Look for Jennifer’s newest book, Stars Over Alaska!
Author: Tibor Latincsics
Publisher:
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Category : Suspension bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Author: Maine
Publisher:
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Category : Bills, Private
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Byron E. Pearson
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816520589
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Between 1963 and 1968, environmentalists were outraged when western water interests sought to construct two dams in Grand Canyon as part of the Central Arizona Project. The Sierra Club led a national campaign opposed to the project, which most environmental historians credit with defeating the dams. In the wake of its victory, the Sierra Club has been lauded as the savior of Grand Canyon. Byron Pearson now takes a closer look at history to show that the Sierra Club's ability to mobilize public opinion did not appreciably influence Congress, where the issue was actually decided. When Arizona congressman Stewart Udall became Interior Secretary in 1960, he promoted a plan to import water from the Pacific Northwest to California in order to placate that state's opposition to the CAP with its proposed dams. When this support dissolved in the face of resistance from Washington senator Henry Jackson, who chaired the Senate Interior Committee, the pragmatic Udall sought passage of a bare-bones CAP bill without the dams before he and Arizona senator Carl Hayden retired. Despite this congressional deal-making, the Sierra Club received credit for blocking the dams and was propelled to the undisputed leadership of the environmental movement. Using the myth that it had saved the Canyon, the club transformed its image of power into real political influence after Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act in 1970, giving environmental advocates access to the policy-making process for the first time. In revealing how the Sierra Club played a much lesser role in blocking the dams than they would have had the public believe, Pearson contrasts the ways in which the controversy unfolded in the court of public opinion versus the actual political process. He takes readers into congressional chambers and conference rooms, reconstructing the legislative process to convey the full flavor of this political give-and-take. Based on research in archives from all over the country, Still the Wild River Runs will itself be a subject of controversy as it challenges long-standing notions about the power of environmental lobbies. By putting this chain of historical events in clearer perspective, it can give citizens concerned with future causes a better understanding of the political process and what really moves it.
Author: Jerry M. Hay
Publisher: Inland Waterways Books
ISBN: 1450724582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1496
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