Author: Karen Harper
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1488095884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
“A tale guaranteed to bring shivers to the spine, Down River will delight Harper’s current fans and earn her many more.” —Booklist (starred review) Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles downriver, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they’ve been swept deep into the wilderness. Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive against nature. There’s a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days rather than years. “Fast-paced and full of suspense.” —Fresh Fiction
Down River
Author: Karen Harper
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1488095884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
“A tale guaranteed to bring shivers to the spine, Down River will delight Harper’s current fans and earn her many more.” —Booklist (starred review) Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles downriver, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they’ve been swept deep into the wilderness. Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive against nature. There’s a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days rather than years. “Fast-paced and full of suspense.” —Fresh Fiction
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1488095884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
“A tale guaranteed to bring shivers to the spine, Down River will delight Harper’s current fans and earn her many more.” —Booklist (starred review) Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles downriver, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they’ve been swept deep into the wilderness. Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive against nature. There’s a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days rather than years. “Fast-paced and full of suspense.” —Fresh Fiction
Sold Down the River
Author: Barbara Hambly
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553575295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent plantation world darker than anything in the city.... When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his musician's hands bleed, Benjamin must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer ... or find himself sold down the river.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553575295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent plantation world darker than anything in the city.... When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his musician's hands bleed, Benjamin must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer ... or find himself sold down the river.
A Treasury of the Maine Woods
Author: Edmund Ware Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Collection of his essays, narratives and wood-smoke tales of wilderness Maine.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Collection of his essays, narratives and wood-smoke tales of wilderness Maine.
Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship
Author: E.B. White
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 160893733X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
During the 1950s and ’60s, writers E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith carried on a long correspondence by letter, despite living only a few miles apart on the coast of Maine. Often the letters were written from one or the other while they were traveling, but missing their homes and friends. The letters represent a witty and charming correspondence between two literary giants, their stories of Maine, the beauty of our region, and the trials and tribulations of living here. Introduced by White's granddaughter, Martha White, the letters show their first formal communications, their chummy middle years, right up to the death of Edmund Ware Smith. Throughout, there is a strong sense of place and community.
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 160893733X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
During the 1950s and ’60s, writers E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith carried on a long correspondence by letter, despite living only a few miles apart on the coast of Maine. Often the letters were written from one or the other while they were traveling, but missing their homes and friends. The letters represent a witty and charming correspondence between two literary giants, their stories of Maine, the beauty of our region, and the trials and tribulations of living here. Introduced by White's granddaughter, Martha White, the letters show their first formal communications, their chummy middle years, right up to the death of Edmund Ware Smith. Throughout, there is a strong sense of place and community.
Down by the Bay
Author: Matthew Booker
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520355563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520355563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.
The One-eyed Poacher of Privilege
Author: Edmund Ware Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Jazz on the River
Author: William Howland Kenney
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226437337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
'Jazz on the River' describes how musical entrepreneurs gave the music of New Orleans to mainstream America in the 1920s, by quite literally sending their musicians upstream, aboard riverboats that plied the Mississippi waterways every summer.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226437337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
'Jazz on the River' describes how musical entrepreneurs gave the music of New Orleans to mainstream America in the 1920s, by quite literally sending their musicians upstream, aboard riverboats that plied the Mississippi waterways every summer.
Illinois Waterway Guidebook
Author: Jerry M. Hay
Publisher: Inland Waterways Books
ISBN: 1607438569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher: Inland Waterways Books
ISBN: 1607438569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The One-eyed Poacher and the Maine Woods
Author: Edmund Ware Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Short stories and sketches about the Maine woods and the men who lived there.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Short stories and sketches about the Maine woods and the men who lived there.
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim
Author: Michael Fortescue
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763535688
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim is an extension of the author's earlier volume Eskimo Orientation Systems (also published in the series Monographs on Greenland - Meddelelser om Gronland, Man & Society, 1988). This time it covers all the contiguous languages ? and cultures ? across the northern Pacific rim from Vancouver Island in Canada to Hokkaido in northern Japan, plus the adjacent Arctic coasts of Alaska and Chukotka. These form a testing ground for recent theories concerning the nature and classification of orientation systems and their shared ?frames of reference?, in particular the many varieties of ?landmark? systems typifying the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Despite the wide variety of languages spoken here (all of them endangered), there is much in common as regards their overlapping geographical settings and the ways in which terms for orientation within the microcosm (the house) and within the macrocosm (the surrounding environment) mesh throughout the region. This is illustrated with numerous maps and diagrams, from both coastal and inland sites. Attention is paid to ambiguities and anomalies within the systems revealed by the data, as these may be clues to pre-historic movements of the populations concerned ? from a riverine setting to the coast, from the coast to inland, or more complex successive displacements. Cultural factors over and beyond environmental determinism are discussed within this broad context."
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763535688
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim is an extension of the author's earlier volume Eskimo Orientation Systems (also published in the series Monographs on Greenland - Meddelelser om Gronland, Man & Society, 1988). This time it covers all the contiguous languages ? and cultures ? across the northern Pacific rim from Vancouver Island in Canada to Hokkaido in northern Japan, plus the adjacent Arctic coasts of Alaska and Chukotka. These form a testing ground for recent theories concerning the nature and classification of orientation systems and their shared ?frames of reference?, in particular the many varieties of ?landmark? systems typifying the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Despite the wide variety of languages spoken here (all of them endangered), there is much in common as regards their overlapping geographical settings and the ways in which terms for orientation within the microcosm (the house) and within the macrocosm (the surrounding environment) mesh throughout the region. This is illustrated with numerous maps and diagrams, from both coastal and inland sites. Attention is paid to ambiguities and anomalies within the systems revealed by the data, as these may be clues to pre-historic movements of the populations concerned ? from a riverine setting to the coast, from the coast to inland, or more complex successive displacements. Cultural factors over and beyond environmental determinism are discussed within this broad context."