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Author : Laura Ogden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816677023
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swamplife written by Laura Ogden and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades.
Author : D K Publishing
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606178143
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swamp Life written by D K Publishing and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2010, Britain's new Coalition government embarked on its journey to the Big Society. But how did we reach this point? Politicians and commentators have long bemoaned the supposed decline of civic life, fretting about its health and its future. In fact, the real story of voluntarism over the last hundred years has not been decline, but constant evolution and change. Whether we use the terms charity, philanthropy, civil society, non-governmental organisations, the third sector or theBig Society, voluntary endeavour is one of the most vibrant and dynamic areas of British public life. The senior, established and exciting new scholars featured in this collection show how the voluntary sector's role in society, and its relationship with the state, has constantly adapted to its surroundings. They have raised new agendas, tackled old problems in new ways, acted as alternatives to statutory provision and as catalysts for further government action. Voluntary groups have emerged out of citizens' concerns, independent of government and yet willing to work with politicians of all persuasions. By surveying the sheer extent and diversity of the sector since the start of the First World War, this volume demonstrates that voluntarism not only continues to thrive, but is also far larger than any political agenda that may be imposed upon it.
Author : Robert Leslie Smith
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354948
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gone to the Swamp written by Robert Leslie Smith and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-09-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To make a living here, one had to be capable, confident, clever and inventive, know a lot about survival, be able to fashion and repair tools, navigate a boat, fell a tree, treat a snakebite, make a meal from whatever was handy without asking too many questions about it, and get along with folks. This fascinating and instructive book is the careful and unpretentious account of a man who was artful in all the skills needed to survive and raise a family in an area where most people would be lost or helpless. Smith’s story is an important record of a way of life beginning to disappear, a loss not fully yet realized. We are lucky to have a work that is both instructive and warm-hearted and that preserves so much hard-won knowledge.
Author : Henry Clay Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "swamp Doctor" written by Henry Clay Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gwen Roland
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807161748
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Atchafalaya Houseboat written by Gwen Roland and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people -- Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin -- decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a book called How to Build Your Home in the Woods, they drew up plans to recycle a slave-built structure into a houseboat. Without power tools or building experience they constructed a floating dwelling complete with a brick fireplace. Towed deep into the sleepy waters of Bloody Bayou, it was their home for eight years. This is the tale of the not-so-simple life they made together -- days spent fishing, trading, making wine, growing food, and growing up -- told by Gwen with grace, economy, and eloquence. Not long after they took up swamp living, Gwen and Calvin met a young photographer named C. C. Lockwood, who shared their "back to the earth" values. His photographs of the couple going about their daily routine were published in National Geographic magazine, bringing them unexpected fame. More than a quarter of a century later, after Gwen and Calvin had long since parted, one of Lockwood's photos of them appeared in a National Geographic collector's edition entitled 100 Best Pictures Unpublished -- and kindled the interest of a new generation. With quiet wisdom, Gwen recounts her eight-year voyage of discovery -- about swamp life, wildlife, and herself. A keen observer of both the natural world and the ways of human beings, she transports readers to an unfamiliar and exotic place.
Author : Karen D. Povey
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780737731408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life in a Swamp written by Karen D. Povey and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wiener Stadthalle, Olympiaworld Innsbruck, Stadthalle Graz, Arena Nova, Intersport Arena, Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion, Schwarzl Freizeit Zentrum. Excerpt: Wiener Stadthalle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediabody{behavior:url("/w/skins-1.5/vector/csshover.htc")} Wiener Stadthalle ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4256433
Author : Kathi Appelt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442481218
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp written by Kathi Appelt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Librarians often say that every book is not for every child, but The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp is” (The New York Times). Meet Bingo and J’miah, raccoon brothers on a mission to save Sugar Man Swamp in this rollicking tale and National Book Award Finalist from Newbery Honoree Kathi Appelt. Raccoon brothers Bingo and J’miah are the newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts. The opportunity to serve the Sugar Man—the massive creature who delights in delicious sugar cane and magnanimously rules over the swamp—is an honor, and also a big responsibility, since the rest of the swamp critters rely heavily on the intel of these hardworking Scouts. Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn is not a member of any such organization. But he loves the swamp something fierce, and he’ll do anything to help protect it. And help is surely needed, because world-class alligator wrestler Jaeger Stitch wants to turn Sugar Man swamp into an Alligator World Wrestling Arena and Theme Park, and the troubles don’t end there. There is also a gang of wild feral hogs on the march, headed straight toward them all. The Scouts are ready. All they have to do is wake up the Sugar Man. Problem is, no one’s been able to wake that fellow up in a decade or four… Newbery Honoree and Kathi Appelt’s story of care and conservation has received five starred reviews, was selected as a National Book Award finalist, and is funny as all get out and ripe for reading aloud.
Author : George B. Thompson
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
ISBN 13 : 082982085X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Alligators in the Swamp: written by George B. Thompson and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What tools hold the greatest promise to assist pastors in leading congregations to be faithful witnesses for Jesus? "Alligators in the Swamp: Power, Ministry, and Leadership" with a foreword by Andrew Young, attempts to answer this question. George Thompson will show you that the topic is power. Not a pie-in-the-sky, by-and-by version of power, but a day-to-day, dead-serious, in-your-face version of power. "Alligators in the Swamp" aims its sights and enables you to explore the practice of power in human life.
Author : Watt Key
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318852
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Among the Swamp People written by Watt Key and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of living in Alabama.
Author : Penelope Lively
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222053
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories written by Penelope Lively and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner. “Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How It All Began, Penelope Lively has captivated readers with her singular blend of wisdom, elegance, and humor. Now, in her first story collection in decades, Lively takes up themes of history, family, and relationships across varied and vividly rendered settings. In the title story, a Mediterranean purple swamp hen chronicles the secrets and scandals of Quintus Pompeius’s villa, culminating with his narrow escape from the lava and ash of Vesuvius. “Abroad” captures the low point of an artist couple’s tumultuous European road trip, trapped in a remote Spanish farmhouse and forced to paint a family mural and pitch in with chores to pay for repairs to their broken-down car. Other stories reveal friends and lovers in fateful moments of indiscretion, discovery, and even retribution—as in “The Third Wife,” when a woman learns her husband is a serial con artist and turns a house-hunting trip into an elaborately staged revenge trap. Each of these delightful stories is elevated by Lively’s signature graceful prose and eye for the subtle yet powerfully evocative detail. Wry, charming, and keenly insightful, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories is a masterful achievement from one of our most beloved writers.
