Exploring The Charles River

Author : Kathleen Rowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939166647
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Charles River written by Kathleen Rowe and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover scenic bridges and walkways with the many natural and historic sites the river offers from urban settings to hidden coves and wetland areas farther upriver. Exploring the Charles River can serve as a guide in planning a variety of excursions, while providing a brief history of the Boston area for the reader's pleasure.

Author : Ron McAdow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charles River written by Ron McAdow and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Tougias
Publisher : Appalachian Mountain Club
ISBN 13 : 9781878239600
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Hidden Charles written by Michael Tougias and published by Appalachian Mountain Club. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Charles and its shores by canoe or kayak, on foot, or on bike and learn some natural and cultural history along the way.

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668024659
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down by the River written by Charles Bowden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money. Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. It is the story of how one Mexican drug leader outfought and outthought the U.S. government, of how major financial institutions were fattened on the drug industry, and how the governments of the U.S. and Mexico buried everything that happened. All this happens down by the river, where the public fictions finally end and the facts read like fiction. This is a remarkable American story about drugs, money, murder, and family.

Author : Mike Tougias
Publisher : Yankee Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780899093420
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Charles written by Mike Tougias and published by Yankee Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Charles River is so much more than the river that runs through Boston. For much of its 80 miles, it flows through bucolic pastures, lush wooded canopies, towns and villages, coves, and places so secluded that you'll feel you're the first to discover them. This thoroughly revised and expanded guide leads outdoor lovers along the shores and down the waters of the Charles River with historical tales and personal anecdotes, plus: -- canoeing, biking, and walking routes, -- informative maps and directions, -- resources for paddlers, hikers, bikers, anglers, and picnickers, -- suggested outings and descriptive photographs.

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781791871352
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reconquista written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes medieval accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The term "Reconquista" is a Spanish word transferred to the English language to represent the nearly 800 years in which the Moors and Christians struggled against one another for control of the Iberian Peninsula. Although the phrase typically refers to the time when the numerous Christian kingdoms mobilized to overthrow the Islamic Caliphates set up in the peninsula, the term can additionally be used to refer to the entire situation starting in the 8th century, when Islamic civilization slowly moved out of North Africa, across the Mediterranean Sea, and into southern Iberia. Not surprisingly, three religions attempting to coexist during medieval times resulted in nearly incessant conflicts, marked by high taxation, disparate societies, rigid cultural controls, and systemic violence. Despite the odds, these three religions managed to live in a state of quasi-acceptance and peace in most of the major cities like Cordoba and Toledo, with sporadic warfare occurring on the borders between Al-Andalus and the Christian kingdoms near the Pyrenees Mountains. Muslims, Christians, and Jews would attempt to reorganize their societies several times over the centuries through warfare, always with Jews on the lower rungs and Christians and Muslims fighting it out above them. Though it's often forgotten today, the fighting that took place during the Reconquista was not originally driven by religion. Instead, the majority of the battles were fought by ambitious rulers who sought territorial expansion, like many other civilizations during the Middle Ages. In fact, the Reconquista would not gain its unique religious flavor until the 13th century, when the territories that would become Castile and Aragon drummed up religious fervor to achieve its aims and gained papal support from Rome. After the Reconquista officially ended, the anger, bitterness, and resentment fostered by the fighting resulted in further warfare as the newly created Christian kingdoms of Spain and Portugal continued their fight by chasing after and conquering Muslim territories and civilizations in Africa. Another byproduct of the Reconquista was the notorious Spanish Inquisition, and Ferdinand and Isabella's choice to expel the Jews had dire consequences not only for the Jewish population but for Spain as well. The country's economy suffered after the expulsion, as the country lost many skilled craftsmen, money lenders and bankers, a critical part of their economy. Meanwhile, the Jews who took refuge in Turkey were welcomed by the Ottoman Sultan and put to work making weapons to use against Europe. The famous Renaissance political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli later cited the expulsion of the Jews as an act of "pious cruelty." For many years afterward, the very same people of Castile who had perpetrated the anti-Semitism blamed the expulsion of the Jews for many of their troubles.The legacy of the Reconquista has reverberated throughout the peninsula ever since, resulting in a diverse culture, continued religious tensions, and historical accounts and legends about glorious warfare, brutal torture, and the formation of devoutly religious states that lasted until the 20th century. The Reconquista: The History and Legacy of the Conflicts Between the Moors and Christians on the Iberian Peninsula examines the events that shaped the modern history of Spain and Portugal, and the ramifications. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Reconquista like never before.

Author : Charles River
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambrian Period written by Charles River and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. The current view of science is that Earth is around 4.6 billion years old, and the first 4 billion years of its development are known as the Precambrian period. For the first billion years or so, there was no life in Earth. Then the first single-celled life-forms, early bacteria and algae, began to emerge. It's unclear where they came from or even if they originated on this planet at all, but this gradual development continued until around four billion years ago when suddenly (in geological terms) more complex forms of life began to emerge. Scientists call this time of an explosion of new forms of life the Paleozoic Era, and it stretched from around 541-250 million years ago (Mya). In the oceans and then on land, new creatures and plants began to appear in bewildering variety, and by the end of this period, life on Earth had diversified into a myriad of complex forms that filled virtually every habitat and niche available in the seas and on the planet's only continent, Pangea. Despite all of the scientific advances made in the past few centuries, including an enhanced understanding of Earth's geological past, very little is known about the planet's early history. It is generally accepted that the planet formed somewhere in the region of 4.5 billion years ago, and at some point, the first life appeared in the form of tiny, single-celled creatures, but scientists are unsure of what this life looked like. One of the problems for those seeking to trace the history of life on Earth is that modern scholars are almost entirely dependent on fossil records, but the earliest types of life left few fossils. The best fossils are formed from the bones and hard body parts of dead creatures, but the earliest types of life were so small that they had no bones or cartilage and thus left no fossils. Thus, even though the Precambrian Period (4,600-541 millions of years ago (Mya)) covers over 80% of the entire history of the planet, scientists have very little idea of what forms of life existed then. Then, as Earth entered the Cambrian Period, there was a relatively sudden increase in life form diversity throughout the oceans. Completely new forms of life, more complex and more diverse than anything that had been seen before, began to spread. This acceleration in the evolution of new forms of life was so dramatic that this has come to be known as the "Cambrian explosion." Although new species in the Cambrian explosion developed almost entirely in the oceans, the land was not entirely devoid of life. Though there were no plants or animals, mats of cyanobacteria and other types of microbes covered large terrestrial areas. Scientists have discovered the tracks of a creature that were left in mud that existed 551 Mya, and those tracks were left by leg-like appendages. Was this a fish-like creature that temporarily invaded the land, or was it something completely different than anything that exists today? There is no general consensus, but the Cambrian Period left a rich fossil record that provides a clear idea of the development of life during this time. At the same time, new discoveries are continually being made, and the more scientists discover about this mysterious period, the more their understanding of ancient Earth changes. The Cambrian Period: The History and Legacy of the Start of Complex Life on Earth looks at the development of the era, the extinction event that preceded it, and how life began to evolve during it. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Cambrian Period like never before.

Author : Arthur Bernon Tourtellot
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048649294X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charles written by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intriguing and amusing anecdotes highlight this exploration of the history of the Charles River and its denizens. Appealing line drawings illustrate tales of colonial settlers in the Boston, Charlestown, and Cambridge areas as well as accounts of more recent residents, from Captain John Smith, Governor Winthrop, and John Harvard to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Lowell, and many others"--

Author : Michael J. Tougias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978576660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Days written by Michael J. Tougias and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a boy, I had the Huck Finn dream that many do of letting the river carry me to adventure.” Now, some 30 years later, award-winning outdoor writer Michael Tougias lives that dream. Trading Huck Finn’s log raft for canoe and kayak, Tougias journeys the length of the Connecticut River--from its source near the Canadian border through four New England states to where it meets the sea in Connecticut. Recently designated an American Heritage River, the Connecticut provides the perfect setting for Tougias’s narrative--a wonderful blend of adventure, fishing tales, history, and literature.

Author : Insight Guides
Publisher : Apa Publications (UK) Limited
ISBN 13 : 1789192757
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insight Guides Explore Boston (Travel Guide eBook) written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Guides Explore: pocket-sized books to inspire your on-foot exploration of top international destinations. Experience the best of Boston with this indispensably practical Insight Guides Explore book. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see attractions like the Museum of Fine Arts, to discovering hidden gems, including Newbury Street in Back Bay, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will help you plan your trip, save you time, and enhance your exploration of this fascinating city. -Practical, pocket-sized and packed with inspirational insider information, this will make the ideal on-the-move companion to your trip to Boston -Enjoy over 16 irresistible Best Routes to walk, from Boston's Downtown to Plymouth -Features concise insider information about landscape, history, food and drink, and entertainment options -Invaluable maps: each Best Route is accompanied by a detailed full-colour map, while the large pull-out map provides an essential overview of the area -Discover your destination's must-see sights and hand-picked hidden gems -Directory section provides invaluable insight into top accommodation, restaurant and night life options by area, along with an overview of language, books and films About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.