Marching Sands

Marching Sands
Author: Harold Lamb
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2022-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This fictional adventure book leads readers to follow the journey of a former U.S. Army captain, Robert Gray. A scientific organization wanted Gray to traverse the unforgiving terrain of Gobi Desert to seek the hidden city of Sungan, where the reclusive race of Wusun supposedly lived. In his expedition, Gray has to race against other teams from China and Britain who are trying to find the people of Wusun for their own nefarious needs.

The Ministry of Thunder

The Ministry of Thunder
Author: Davide Mana
Publisher: Acheron Books
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8899216134

Shanghai, 1936. Felice Sabatini is just a mechanic, working on Italian aircraft in China. He isn’t looking for trouble, much less interested in getting caught up a in a conspiracy against China, Japan, and Germany. Unfortunately for him, that’s exactly what happens. Three different factions are after an ancient artifact and the mystical power it controls. Power that, if it falls into the wrong hands, could end up destroying the very world as we know it. Felice knows nothing of immortals, fox women, ninjas or dragons, never mind the Ministry of Storms. He is a rational man, after all. But before this journey is over he will be called upon to face all of that, never mind the power of ancient Chinese magic and a menace from Beyond Time. From the crowded streets of Shanghai to the empty stretches of the Desert of Inescapable Death, Ministry of Thunder is an explosive mix of Oriental Fantasy and New Pulp.

Two Billion Trees and Counting

Two Billion Trees and Counting
Author: John Bacher
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2011-07-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459701135

Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s Book Award Edmund Zavitz (1875–1968) rescued Ontario from the ravages of increasingly more powerful floods, erosion, and deadly fires. Wastelands were talking over many hectares of once-flourishing farmlands and towns. Sites like the Oak Ridges Moraine were well on their way to becoming a dust bowl and all because of extensive deforestation. Zavitz held the positions of chief forester of Ontario, deputy minister of forests, and director of reforestation. His first pilot reforestation project was in 1905, and since then Zavitz has educated the public and politicians about the need to protect Ontario forests. By the mid-1940s, conservation authorities, provincial nurseries, forestry stations, and bylaws protecting trees were in place. Land was being restored. Just a month before his death, the one billionth tree was planted by Premier John Robarts. Some two billion more would follow. As a result of Zavitz’s work, the Niagara Escarpment, once a wasteland, is now a UNESCO World Biosphere. Recognition of the ongoing need to plant trees to protect our future continues as the legacy of Edmund Zavitz.

Here is Where I Walk

Here is Where I Walk
Author: Leslie Carol Roberts
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-04-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1948908085

It is in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, that Leslie Carol Roberts walks. The Presidio, America’s only residential national park tucked wholly into an urban setting, is a fading historic forest. Here is where Leslie’s memories of other places, people, and travels emerge. Here is where the author’s home has been for more than a decade, and here is the place she raised her two children as a single mother. In layered stories of her life and travels, Leslie turns her daily walks into revelations of deeper meaning. From Maryland to Iowa to Tasmania, we follow a fierce and keenly observant walker through places of exquisite beauty and complexity. Her daily walks inspire Leslie to accept the invitation of the beckoning trees where she finds herself colliding with the urban coyote, the peculiar banana slug, and the manzanita. She also notes both ridiculous and poignant aspects of human ecosystems in pursuit of what it means to live a life of creativity and creation from scientist-activists battling to save environments to the tragic realities of ordinary life. In this finely crafted eco-memoir, each place provides Leslie with exactly the scaffolding needed to survive, with nature serving as the tonic. Here is Where I Walk provides a vivid answer to how we can find our place, not only in nature but within ourselves and the world we walk.