Download or read book National Parks Sticker Logbook written by Editors of Chartwell Books and published by Castle Books. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the deserts of Death Valley in California to the vistas of Mount Desert Island in Maine--and so many parks in between and beyond--this is the only book you need to plan and commemorate your trip. Planning a vacation is time consuming and often overwhelming. And, while you're left with lots of memories, they tend to blend together and get fuzzy in detail over time. National Parks Sticker & Logbook is here to tackle both challenges, as the one-stop resource for planning your trip and recording your adventures. Divided into nine sections of the United States, from the Northeast to the Southwest, this guided workbook makes it easy to map out your journey. In these pages, you'll find out where you can visit parks such as: The newest (New River Gorge) The oldest (Yellowstone) The smallest (Gateway Arch) The largest (Wrangell-St. Elias) The lowest (Death Valley) The largest high-latitude sand dune field (Kobuk Valley) The deepest lake (Crater Lake) The most underwater (Dry Tortugas) The longest known cave system (Mammoth Cave) The only one south of the equator (National Park of American Samoa) The one entirely situated north of the Arctic Circle (Gates of the Arctic) Each entry includes an introduction to the park with a brief history, key features, fun facts, recreation tips, and pertinent park information, including: Location Climate Peak season to visit Unique flora and fauna to look for, from orcas, moose, or caribou in the north to javelina, saguaro cactus, or roadrunners in the south General activities for that park, like stargazing in Bryce Canyon, river floating in Grand Teton, snorkeling in Biscayne, mountaineering in Denali, or caving in Great Basin Specific trails to hike, can't-miss sites to visit, or annual gatherings to attend Unique travel tips; for example, a cell phone signal in Isle Royale National Park might actually be from a Canadian tower (with additional fees!) Suggestions of nearby points of interest, including national monuments, wild and scenic rivers, recreation areas, historic sites, and more Space to record where you stayed, your favorite places to eat, and other details about the trip Space for more thoughtful, introspective reflections on your escapades Room for the national park passport stamp (or one of the enclosed stickers), making this book its own passport to the national parks While any book can suggest where to go and what to do, these introspective writing prompts unique to each park will capture your visit's highlights, making this book a keepsake record you can pass down. With a layflat binding for easy writing, small trim size for easy packing, and stunning imagery throughout, you'll return to these pages time and again.

Download or read book An ABE s Logbook written by Stephen Phillips and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book An ABE’s Logbook by author Stephen D. Phillips is a true story of accounts taken from his childhood and the written entries from his personal journals he kept while he served in the United States Navy from 1985 to 2005. The story begins in his childhood as he attended junior high school at Rosemont Middle School in Fort Worth, Texas, attending there from the sixth to eighth grades. These years and their events shaped and molded his life. The encouragement of family, with their love and support, guided him to follow in the footsteps of one of his older brothers and become a sailor. An ABE’s Logbook tells some of those stories, filling the reader with all the raw emotions of a young man leaving home and becoming a man, a sailor, and experiencing that part of his life. An ABE’s Logbook reveals to the reader the story of a sailor and his life aboard ship and all he faces, fears, and accomplishes, both dangers and beauty of the Naval ship and of the sea.

Download or read book Hiking Trails of the Smokies written by Don DeFoe and published by Great Smoky Mountains Association. This book was released on 1994 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Map has titles: Great Smoky Mountains trail map; Great Smoky Mountains hiking map.

Download or read book Smart RV Travel Guide for the Lower 48 States written by Ron Samson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart RV Travel Guide For The Lower 48 States List of RV & National Parks, the Cost, the Amenities, What to See and Do in Each State Smart RV travel guide For the Continental 48 states is a three-year compilation of all the RV parks and National parks in each and every state in the continental US. I outlined all the amenities they offer, the actual cost to stay and so much more. We gathered this data from our last three trips across all 48 states. I also included what to see, where to visit and what they are famous for in each of the states. For each state, I created a detail travel plan that covers everything that is worth seeing along with where to stay while visiting that state. There are 48 chapters, each representing one individual state. Each state is divided into three categories. "Suggested RV trips" - this is where I outline what the main attractions are for each of the states including cities, next I name each and every RV parks, the amenities they offer and what the costs are. Finally, I discuss all the state parks in each state and what perks and goodies they offer along with actual costs. By profession, I was in instructional design, where I designed various commercial and industrial training modules and helped create mini-guides which are far from writing an RV travel guide. I am not qualified to write such guides, but after our 3rd around the country trips, my wife made a convincing argument that people like us could truly benefit from such guides which we didn't have when we first started traveling around our great country. It took me little over nine months to gather all the information and start writing. It is a no-fluff guide with no storytelling as I am good at writing fiction, so I didn't even try, I stayed with the facts and information that I know is helpful to everyone that is looking to take a trip around our good ole' USA. My wife and I were lucky enough to be able to retire at age 52. We both share one passion, and that is the beautiful wide open roads and to see this great vast country of ours. We were able to buy us gently used Class A Fleetwood Southwind for a very reasonable price. It is spacious, maybe a little too spacious for just two of us, but we love every bit of it. It drives beautifully, and the interior comfort is almost like a 5-star hotel. We both love living in it. We spend roughly five months out of the year on the road; we take a 2.5 month long trip around the lower half of the country during the spring, then another 2.5-3 month's long trip during late summer to early fall around the upper part of the country. Since we have been to each of the lower 48 states a dozen or so times and tried out various parks and amenities in every state. We have decided to share all our knowledge here with you. Enjoy the freedom of open roads.

Download or read book Sierra Vista written by Ethel Jackson Price and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Sierra Vista, Arizona begins with Coronado's explorations of the southwestern desert in the sixteenth century, long before the 1877 establishment of Camp Huachuca, home of the famed 24th Infantry "Buffalo Soldiers." Sierra Vista grew up in the fury of the silver and copper mining days surrounded by three stunning mountains and the San Perdro River. Once known as Fry, this frontier town bloomed from a virtually unpopulated settlement into the Hummingbird Capital of the World.

Download or read book Books In Print 2004 2005 written by Ed Bowker Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2004 with total page 3274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hiker Trash written by Sarah Kaizar and published by Skipstone. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual ode to the oldest long-distance trail in the United States--and to the community that keeps it thriving

Download or read book The Log of the 107 Seabees written by and published by U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Liberando Reflections of a Reluctant Warrior written by John E. Horn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series. John H. Horn's wartime experiences as a B-24 pilot in the famous "Liberandos" bomb group, the 376th, are recounted in this work by his son, John E. Horn. Horn was one of millions in World War II who did their jobs. He was mighty lucky and blessed to have come home unscathed. Most of the real learning about air combat was on the job. Military schools and training don't really produce combat-ready men and women. They produce attitudes as well as thinking and re-acting skills. Actual combat is the real teacher. John was forever grateful to his crew and the leaders of the 376th Bomb Group who suffered his inexperience and naiveté. Without their patience, he would not have developed into a competent, safe, and living combat pilot. 31 photos, illustrations, maps.

Download or read book The Howling Storm written by Kenneth W. Noe and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Lincoln Prize! Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth W. Noe suggests it should instead be understood as a war between the North, the South, and the weather. In The Howling Storm, Noe retells the history of the conflagration with a focus on the ways in which weather and climate shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns. He further contends that events such as floods and droughts affecting the Confederate home front constricted soldiers’ food supply, lowered morale, and undercut the government’s efforts to boost nationalist sentiment. By contrast, the superior equipment and open supply lines enjoyed by Union soldiers enabled them to cope successfully with the South’s extreme conditions and, ultimately, secure victory in 1865. Climate conditions during the war proved unusual, as irregular phenomena such as El Niño, La Niña, and similar oscillations in the Atlantic Ocean disrupted weather patterns across southern states. Taking into account these meteorological events, Noe rethinks conventional explanations of battlefield victories and losses, compelling historians to reconsider long-held conclusions about the war. Unlike past studies that fault inflation, taxation, and logistical problems for the Confederate defeat, his work considers how soldiers and civilians dealt with floods and droughts that beset areas of the South in 1862, 1863, and 1864. In doing so, he addresses the foundational causes that forced Richmond to make difficult and sometimes disastrous decisions when prioritizing the feeding of the home front or the front lines. The Howling Storm stands as the first comprehensive examination of weather and climate during the Civil War. Its approach, coverage, and conclusions are certain to reshape the field of Civil War studies.

Download or read book Snow Falling on Cedars written by David Guterson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful tale of the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s, reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird. Courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, this is the epic tale of a young Japanese-American and the man on trial for killing the man she loves.

Download or read book Backcountry Log written by Kathryn Hunter and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Download or read book Legacy of Masks written by Sallie Bissell and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homesick and longing for the company of handsome Jonathan Walkingstick, former Atlanta D.A. Mary Crow returns to North Carolina to open her own practice and finds herself taking on the case of Ridge Standingdeer, a young Cherokee farmhand accused of killing the local prom queen. Reprint.

Download or read book The Timberclads in the Civil War written by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most detailed history ever of Union warships on the western waters of the Civil War, the author recounts the exploits of the timberclad ships Lexington, Tyler, and Conestoga. Converted to warships from commercial steamboats at the beginning of the conflict, the three formed the core of the North's Western Flotilla, later the Mississippi Squadron. The book focuses on the activities of these wooden warriors while providing context for the greater war, including accounts of their famous commanders, their roles in both large and small battles, ship-to-ship combat, and support for the armies of Gen. U.S. Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman.

Download or read book Hell s Angels written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.” Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, “For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.” As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.

Download or read book The Spirit of St Louis written by Charles A. Lindbergh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-12-09 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic solo flight in 1927.