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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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American Journal of Science
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Norfolk & Western in the Appalachians
Author: Ed King
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
ISBN: 9780890243169
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A nostalgic look at the last major railroad to use steam locomotives. Dramatic photos follow the remarkable history of N&W steam engines as they hauled coal through the mountains of West Virginia and Virginia in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's.
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
ISBN: 9780890243169
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A nostalgic look at the last major railroad to use steam locomotives. Dramatic photos follow the remarkable history of N&W steam engines as they hauled coal through the mountains of West Virginia and Virginia in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's.
The Coal Trade Bulletin
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Category : Coal trade
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : Coal trade
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Naturalist's Guide to the Americas
Author: Nature Conservancy (U.S.)
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Reading the Mountains of Home
Author: John Elder
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674748880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674748880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
The Mount Balfour Mining Field
Author: Leonard Keith Ward
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Category : Balfour, Mount (Tas.)
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category : Balfour, Mount (Tas.)
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Flood Insurance Study
Author: United States. Federal Insurance Administration
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Category : Bedford County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Category : Bedford County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Automobile Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 1724
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Languages : en
Pages : 1724
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Norfolk
Author: Thomas C. Parramore
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-century concerns, including pollution of Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-century concerns, including pollution of Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.
A Geographical Handbook of All the Known Ferns with Tables to Show Their Distribution
Author: Mrs. Lyell (Katharine M.)
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Category : Ferns
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : Ferns
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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