A Land Gone Lonesome

Author : Dan O'Neill
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786722126
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Land Gone Lonesome written by Dan O'Neill and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the majestic Yukon River. His journey downriver to Circle City, Alaska, is an expedition into the history of the river and its land, and a record of the inimitable and little known inhabitants of the region. With the distinct perspective of an insider, A Land Gone Lonesome gives us an intelligent, rhapsodic-and ultimately, probably the last-portrait of the Yukon and its authentic inhabitants.

Author : B.M. Bower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Land written by B.M. Bower and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : B. M. Bower
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Land written by B. M. Bower and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1912 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel T. O'Neill
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813341972
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Giant of Beringia written by Daniel T. O'Neill and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the work of geologist Dave Hopkins, whose research solved the mystery of the existence of Beringia, the Bering Land Bridge.

Author : Bower B M
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318790630
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Land written by Bower B M and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Bill Pronzini
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480485012
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Lonesome written by Bill Pronzini and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book: A woman’s suicide leads a man to a Nevada mining town—and a nest of poisonous secrets—in this “top-notch thriller” (Publishers Weekly). There is something about the sad woman eating alone night after night at the Harmony Café that intrigues San Francisco CPA Jim Messenger. Unfulfilled himself, Jim feels a kinship with her—and later, when she commits suicide, he resolves to find out why. His search leads him to Beulah, a middle-of-nowhere mining town in the Nevada desert, where hatreds run deep, where secrets are as venomous as a rattlesnake bite, and where a stranger asking too many questions might inexplicably disappear. Still, in this dusty, barren landscape, Jim feels completely alive. And he’s not going anywhere until he uncovers the truth, even if it rips the whole town apart. Richly atmospheric and peopled with achingly human characters, Blue Lonesome is a crime novel as tense and coiled as a rattler ready to strike and as dark and hypnotic as the lonesome desert night.

Author : Peter Coates
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178023144X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Story of Six Rivers written by Peter Coates and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the world’s major cities sprang up on the banks of rivers. Used for water, food, irrigation, transportation, and power, rivers sustain life and connect the world together, but most of us think of them simply as waterways that must be crossed on the way to another place. Using four European and two North American rivers as examples, A Story of Six Rivers considers the place of rivers in our world and emphasizes the inextricable links between history, culture, and ecology. Peter Coates explores six rivers, chosen as examples of the types of rivers found on the planet: the Danube, the second-longest river in Europe; the Spree, which flows through Berlin; the Po, which cuts eastward across northern Italy; the Mersey in northwest England; the Yukon, which runs through Canada and Alaska; and the Los Angeles in California. Creating a series of river biographies, Coates gives voice to each of these bodies of water, exploring how rivers nurture us, provide cultural and economic opportunities, and pose threats to our everyday lives. He challenges recent narratives that paint rivers as the victims of abuse, pollution, and damage at the hands of humans, focusing on change rather than devastation. Describing how humans and rivers form a symbiotic—and sometimes mutually destructive—relationship, Coates argues that rivers illustrate the limits of human authority and that their capacity to inspire us is as strong as our ability to pollute them. An intimate portrait of the way these bodies of water inform our lives, A Story of Six Rivers will make us reconsider the streams and tributaries we traverse each day.

Author : Bruce Holbert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1582438064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Animals written by Bruce Holbert and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lonesome Animals, Arthur Strawl, a tormented former lawman, is called out of retirement to hunt a serial killer with a sense of the macabre who has been leaving elaborately carved bodies of Native Americans across three counties. As the pursuit ensues, Strawl's own dark and violent history weaves itself into the hunt, shedding light on the remains of his broken family: one wife taken by the river, one by his own hand; an adopted Native American son who fancies himself a Catholic prophet; and a daughter, whose temerity and stoicism contrast against the romantic notions of how the west was won. In the vein of True Gritand Blood Meridian, Lonesome Animals is a western novel reinvented, a detective story inverted for the west. It contemplates the nature of story and heroism in the face of a collapsing ethos –not only of Native American culture, but also of the first wave of white men who, through the battle against the geography and its indigenous people, guaranteed their own destruction. But it is also about one man's urgent, elegiac search for justice amidst the craven acts committed on the edges of civilization.

Author : B. M. Bower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Land written by B. M. Bower and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of modern Montana, giving a wholly different phase of life among the ranches--in the lonesome land.

Author : Dan O'Neill
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465097529
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Firecracker Boys written by Dan O'Neill and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However, the plan was blocked by a handful of Eskimos and biologists who succeeded in preventing massive nuclear devastation potentially far greater than that of the Chernobyl blast. The Firecracker Boys is a story of the U.S. government's arrogance and deception, and the brave people who fought against it-launching America's environmental movement. As one of Alaska's most prominent authors, Dan O'Neill brings to these pages his love of Alaska's landscape, his skill as a nature and science writer, and his determination to expose one of the most shocking chapters of the Nuclear Age.