epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Linda Tucker [Tucker, Linda]

MIREILLE, JASON, AND I stand on the runway of Lanseria private airport, under the tilted metal hull of a DC3 troop carrier. Mireille is hanging tightly onto my hand. The ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Raby

10 Wallace Transformed AT ABOUT THE same time that Annie Mitten came into his life, Wallace plunged into another transforming experience. His sustained interest in spiritualism in the years to ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]

13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Oppenheimer

TWENTY Emotional Changes Bobby was faced with both love and sorrow in the nine months between asking Emily Black to be his wife and the loss of the one person ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

The “safety” of a pesticide is a relative question, as the toxicity of any substance depends on the dose and the route of exposure. Calling a compound an “insecticide” identifies ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Richard Conniff

“An Animal of an Extraordinary Character” His moment came, oddly, after he had already sailed for home early in 1847, at the end of his years in Africa. The ship ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Terry Tempest Williams [Williams, Terry Tempest]

During the last week of the field course we focused on stream studies, surveying the caddis fly and mayfly larvae living in Richardson Creek. Upstream, students started yelling frantically for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Harry W. Greene

Philippine Negritos with freshly killed reticulated python, twenty-three feet long and twenty-six inches in circumference, at the headwaters of the Koso River in the Sierra Madre, Aurora Province, Luzon, June ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Jackson Landers

I LEFT MISSOURI WITH A COOLER FULL OF CARP and my head teeming with thoughts about entire rivers with hundreds of tons of a highly edible fish per mile and ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Heacox, Kim

MUIR WAS TIRED and unwell and unable to fully rest at home, busy with obligations in his scribble den. The grippe was back. The bronchial cough, too. His second Atlantic ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-22 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:John Zerzan

The Modern Anti-World There now exists only one civilization, a single global domestication machine. Modernity's continuing efforts to disenchant and instru- mentalize the non-cultural natural world have produced a reality ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-16 | Author:Peter Forbes

Bill, who I can only guess is embarrassed by this oversight of not having ordered enough material for the sills, tells me and Scott to “put it in the back ...

epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

"We hailed them and told them to liold off so we could get clear of the Pond. George, he yelled down to we they had orders for to finish off ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-20 | Author:Donald Worster [Worster, Donald]

Muir gravitated toward idealistic people like the Strentzels, Carrs, and Bidwells who shared his disapproval of the naked pursuit of money. They also shared his passion for the outdoors, loved ...