The Wolf Pit

The Wolf Pit
Author: Will Cohu
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-07-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1448138523

In 1966 Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors. The summers and winters he spent there were full of freedom and light; only after childhood ended was he aware of the price the adults had paid for life in this most romantic of settings. Navigating family tensions and the trials of growing up, Will describes the close-knit community of North Yorkshire and his family's place within it: the shepherd probing the head-high snowdrifts for his flock; the pub landlord obsessed with military uniforms; the village doctor lost in his love for the purple moorland; Will's glamorous RAF parents; and, at the centre of the story, his beloved but enigmatic grandparents. The Wolf Pit is an enquiring love letter from Will Cohu to his family, and to a changing rural England that is passionate, frightening and funny.

The Wolf Pit

The Wolf Pit
Author: Marly Youmans
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156027144

A powerful, intimate look at the Civil War on the home and battle fronts, "The Wolf Pit" is Marly Youmans's third and most accomplished novel. In it Robin, a young Confederate soldier and witness to the horrors of war, clings to what gives him strength: family pictures, psalms, and an old legend about a pair of mysterious green children found in a wolf pit. Robin carries these inside the Elmira prison camp, the very embodiment of hell. Meanwhile, Agate, the mulatto daughter of a hired-out slave, embraces the forbidden teachings of her mistress, Miss Fanny, who teaches her to love books and to write. But the hope Agate has fashioned for her future disappears when her owner, Young Master, learns of her education. Agate comes to understand the meaning of her mother's cautionary tales as she struggles to survive loss and degradation and to pit knowledge and truth against evil. By turns eloquent and harrowing, "The Wolf Pit" explores the will to endure in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and the personal tolls exacted during this chaotic period in U.S. history.

The Great American Wolf

The Great American Wolf
Author: Bruce Hampton
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1997-11-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780805055283

For more than 300 years, the wolf was North America's most reviled beast, pursued to the brink of extinction throughout the United States. Then, within the last half-century, public opinion changed and the wolf became the symbol of the wilderness, tolerated and even desired over much of its former range. insert. 2 maps.

Food by Fire

Food by Fire
Author: Derek Wolf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1592339751

Food by Fire, based on the popular blog and Instagram Over the Fire Cooking, covers everything from easy wins for live fire grilling beginners to unique techniques from around the world.

The Pit

The Pit
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1605209023

Like his more famous contemporary Upton Sinclair, American author BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NORRIS, JR. (1870-1902) also highlighted the corruption and greed of corporate monopolies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... themes that continue to make his work riveting reading more than a century later. The Pit, first published in 1903, is a fictional narrative of the dealing in the Chicago wheat pit, focusing on speculator Curtis Jadwin, who is so addicted to his own greed that it becomes his downfall. The second part of Norris's projected "Trilogy of the Epic of the Wheat," *The Pit is preceded by 1901's The Octopus, also available from Cosimo. (Norris died before he could write the third volume, The Wolf.)

Revision of the American Pikas

Revision of the American Pikas
Author: Arthur Holmes Howell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1924
Genre: Lagomorpha
ISBN:

Discusses distribution, habitat, habits, pelage, molt, specimens, history, and nomenclature of pikas. Provides descriptions, locations, and a key for species and subspecies.

A Biological Survey of North Dakota

A Biological Survey of North Dakota
Author: Vernon Bailey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1926
Genre: Animals
ISBN:

Discusses the physiography and life zones of North Dakota, with a map of life Zones. Provides a list of mammals, which includes a brief description of each animal, its distribution, abundance, habitat, and habits.