The Untamed Coast Rare People And Rare Places Along The Edge Of America
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Author | : Peter Jenkins |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781558533479 |
The travel writer and photographer describes the landscapes and personalities he encountered on a boat journey along the Gulf Coast
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Author | : Rose Arny |
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Total Pages | : 3088 |
Release | : 1996-06 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Total Pages | : 1952 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : John Gimlette |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2011-06-21 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0307596656 |
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an interior of watery, green anarchy where border disputes are often based on ancient Elizabethan maps, where flora and fauna are still being discovered, where thousands of rivers remain mostly impassable. And under the lens of John Gimlette—brilliantly offbeat, irreverent, and canny—these three small countries are among the most wildly intriguing places on earth. On an expedition that will last three months, he takes us deep into a remarkable world of swamp and jungle, from the hideouts of runaway slaves to the vegetation-strangled remnants of penal colonies and forts, from “Little Paris” to a settlement built around a satellite launch pad. He recounts the complicated, often surprisingly bloody, history of the region—including the infamous 1978 cult suicide at Jonestown—and introduces us to its inhabitants: from the world’s largest ants to fluorescent purple frogs to head-crushing jaguars; from indigenous tribes who still live by sorcery to descendants of African slaves, Dutch conquerors, Hmong refugees, Irish adventurers, and Scottish outlaws; from high-tech pirates to hapless pioneers for whom this stunning, strangely beautiful world (“a sort of X-rated Garden of Eden”) has become home by choice or by force. In Wild Coast, John Gimlette guides us through a fabulously entertaining, eye-opening—and sometimes jaw-dropping—journey.
Author | : Peter Jenkins |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780816150090 |
This is a collection of personal anecdotes on the pets the author owned or worked with in his life.
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Author | : Patrick D Smith |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1561645826 |
A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series