French River

Author : Wayne Kelly
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1897045239
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capturing the French River written by Wayne Kelly and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated work is designed to delight history and photography buffs as well as canoeing enthusiasts.

Author : Jan Noel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442698268
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along a River written by Jan Noel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides, nuns, tradeswomen, farmers, governors' wives, and even smugglers — during the period between the settlement of the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Victorian era. Along a River builds the case that inside the cabins that stretched for miles along the shoreline, most early French-Canadian women retained old fashioned forms of economic production and customary rights over land ownership. Noel demonstrates how this continued even as the world changed around them by comparing their lives to those of their contemporaries in France, England, and New England.Exploring how the daughters and granddaughters of the filles du roi adapted to their terrain, turned their hands to trade, and even acquired surprising influence at the French court, Along a River is an innovative and engagingly written history.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1698 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillip B. Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195067927
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam at War written by Phillip B. Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together the histories of three distinct conflicts, Phillip B. Davidson follows the entire course of the Vietnam War, from the initial French skirmishes in 1946 to the dramatic fall of Saigon nearly thirty years later. His connecting thread is North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, a remarkable figure who, with no formal military training, fashioned a rag-tag militia into one of the world's largest and most formidable armies. By focusing on Giap's role throughout the war, and by making available for the first time a wealth of recently declassified North Vietnamese documents, Davidson offers unprecedented insight into Hanoi's military strategies, an insight surpassed only by his inside knowledge of American operations and planning. Eminently qualified to write this history, Davidson--who served as chief intelligence officer under Generals Westmoreland and Abrams--tells firsthand the story of our tragic ordeal in Indochina and brings his unique understanding to bear on topics of continuing controversy, offering a chilling account, for example, of when and where the U.S. considered using nuclear weapons. The most comprehensive and authoritative history of the conflict to date, Vietnam at War sparkles with a rare immediacy, and brings to life in compelling fashion the war that tore America apart. We witness the chaos in Saigon when fireworks celebrating the Tet holiday are suddenly transformed into deadly rocket and machine-gun fire. We sit in on high-level meetings where General Westmoreland plans operations, or simply engages in some tough "headknocking" with subordinates. And in the end we learn that even the seemingly limitless resources of the U.S. military could not match the revolutionary "grand strategy" of the North Vietnamese. With its easy movement from intimate memoir to trenchant military analysis, from the conference rooms of generals to the battle-scarred streets of Hue, this is military history at its most gripping. A monumental, engrossing, and unforgettable chronicle, Vietnam at War is indispensable for anyone hoping to understand a conflict that still rages in the American psyche.

Author : Wayne Kelly
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554881242
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capturing the French River written by Wayne Kelly and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the French River introduces a rare collection of exceptional photographs taken along the river between 1910 and 1927 by Doctors J. Ernest Rushbrook and Frank Sherman, whose lifelong friendship was based in part around their mutual love of photography, of nature, of the Canadian wilderness and of the canoe. The collection was a serendipitous discovery by author Wayne Kelly, who immediately recognized the uniqueness of these incredible images. The two Rushbrook sisters, Ida and Bertha, also photographers, play a significant role in this book on the amazing, historically significant French River and the once-thriving original village of French River, which ceased to exist circa 1924. The sisters are remembered as well for their fearless running of whitewater rapids and remote camping adventures, often including Bertha’s son, Max, who was still a babe in arms. The author’s historical research on this area and the era has led to an informative text that will delight history buffs and also serve as the ideal companion for those interested canoeists and travellers venturing into French River country. Present-day photographers will also be intrigued by the many images selected from a collection of 634 photographs. Capturing the French River is destined to become a Canadian treasure in print.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Water Quality Inventory written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elaine Sciolino
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609367
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seine: The River that Made Paris written by Elaine Sciolino and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best-selling author Elaine Sciolino. Elaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea, and the cities, tributaries, islands, ports, and bridges in between. Sciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. She discovers the story of Sequana—the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name—and follows the river through Paris, where it determined the city’s destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police, rows with a restorer of antique boats, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art, literature, music, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019. A “storyteller at heart” (June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune) with a “sumptuous eye for detail” (Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph), Sciolino braids memoir, travelogue, and history through the Seine’s winding route. The Seine offers a love letter to Paris and the most romantic river in the world, and invites readers to explore its magic for themselves.

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water Planning and Standards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Water Quality Inventory written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water Planning and Standards and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond A. Assel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book Great Lakes Degree-day and Temperature Summaries and Norms, 1897-1977 written by Raymond A. Assel and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily maximum and minimum air temperatures at 25 locations on the perimeter of the Great Lakes for the period 1897 to 1977 were used to generate long term daily air temperatures and freezing and thawing degree-days (FDD's and TDD's). In addition daily, weekly, and monthly FDD's and daily TDD's were calculated for the 81 summer and 80 winter seasons between 1897 and 1877. this report describes the computational procedure and presents graphs and tables resulting from this analysis. The complete analysis is too voluminous to present in hard copy, but is available on microfilm through World Data Center A, Institure of Arcic and Alpine research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder Colorado 80309.

Author : Mendall Patterson Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6Y/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gazetteer of Natural Drainage Areas of Streams and Water Bodies Within the State of Connecticut written by Mendall Patterson Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: