Download or read book Lu and the Swamp Ghost written by James Carville and published by Atheneum. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Depression in the Louisiana bayou, a curious young girl helps the "Swamp Ghost" that her cousins warned her about and finds herself with one good friend.
Download or read book Ghosts of the Green Swamp written by Lee Gramling and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tate Barkley is back setting out to the vast and ominous swampland west of Orlando. Tate meets up with the odd and ornery little bald “perfessor" named Monk, who sells elixirs from his odd contraption of a wagon. Tate and Monk—and an odd assortment of other characters—follow a trail that draws them ever deeper into that vast forbidding swampland near the headwaters of the Withlacoochee River. This Cracker Western will have your spine tingling as it races on to the final all-out showdown
Download or read book The Ghost Orchid Ghost written by Doug Alderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida's famous swamps—from the Everglades to Mosquito Lagoon to Tate's Hell—serve as fitting backdrops for these chilling original stories. Maybe it's because they are often wet, shadowy places of wild beauty where few people dare to penetrate. They are havens for snakes, alligators, black bears, wildcats, and who knows what. People on the run have often hidden in swamps, while others have gotten lost in the watery expanses; the swamp can be a refuge or a nightmare. Mysterious things just happen in swamps. Maybe it's because they are often wet, shadowy places of wild beauty where few people dare to penetrate. They are havens for snakes, alligators, black bears, wildcats, and who knows what. People on the run have often hidden in swamps, while others have gotten lost in the watery expanses; the swamp can be a refuge or a nightmare. Where else can you find a ghost baby, or an angry specter, or a lost soul? How about a ghost who is obsessed with the ghost orchid, or an alluring snake woman? Throw in a skunk ape or two and you've got the ingredients for many entertaining hours sharing these stories around a campfire or reading them to yourself or out loud. From the Author's Notes at the end of each story, you can learn a thing or two about Florida's swamps, creatures, and history, along with storytelling tips. Florida is rich in history, natural beauty, and ecological and cultural diversity. To protect what is special about our state it is important to educate the people who live here and our visitors. In this unique book you'll find tales of mystery and intrigue interwoven with important facts and lessons of natural history. Who but a naturalist can really scare you about what lurks in the swamp? Doug Alderson has been there and knows. In writing tales for this book, Doug Alderson drew upon many years of entertaining young people as a summer camp counselor and storyteller, and also from decades as a swamp explorer. He is a former associate editor of Florida Wildlife magazine. To learn more about his writing and photography, check out his website at www.dougalderson.net.
Download or read book Ghost of the Swamp written by Linda Mooney and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alligator, Bear, Cougar, Deer, Eagle They found each other by accident. They became a team for life. Shot by illegal poachers, Patrick "Pud" Davies finds himself alone and severely injured in the middle of the woods. He's discovered by Billie Crowne, an agent with the EPA, and she takes him to her campsite where she tends to his wounds. As the days pass, Pud finally allows himself to open up for the first time. With Billie, he finds he's able to talk about the horrors of his past, and begins to purge the blackness that has haunted him ever since his tour of duty, and his time as a POW, ended. Because of her, he becomes stronger emotionally and physically. And before he can comprehend his growing feelings for this woman, he realizes she's managed to break through the protective emotional shell he had erected around himself. When he's finally able to contact the others of his team at Bag It and Tag It Excursions, together they try to find the people responsible for attacking him. What they discover will force Pud to make a heartbreaking decision. Because of what he is, he will have to walk away from the only woman who has ever touched his heart.
Download or read book The Ghost of Froggy s Swamp written by Daniel Roberts and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange ghostly sound is scaring the animals of the swamp. Is it a ghost or something else? Froggy and his friends are quick to try to find out in this fun and brightly illustrated picture book by cartoonist Daniel Roberts.
Download or read book The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Spooky Stories from the Swamp written by Doug Alderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida's famous swamps—from the Everglades to Mosquito Lagoon to Tate's Hell—serve as fitting backdrops for these chilling original stories. Maybe it's because they are often wet, shadowy places of wild beauty where few people dare to penetrate. They are havens for snakes, alligators, black bears, wildcats, and who knows what. People on the run have often hidden in swamps, while others have gotten lost in the watery expanses; the swamp can be a refuge or a nightmare. Mysterious things just happen in swamps. Maybe it's because they are often wet, shadowy places of wild beauty where few people dare to penetrate. They are havens for snakes, alligators, black bears, wildcats, and who knows what. People on the run have often hidden in swamps, while others have gotten lost in the watery expanses; the swamp can be a refuge or a nightmare. Where else can you find a ghost baby, or an angry specter, or a lost soul? How about a ghost who is obsessed with the ghost orchid, or an alluring snake woman? Throw in a skunk ape or two and you've got the ingredients for many entertaining hours sharing these stories around a campfire or reading them to yourself or out loud.
Download or read book The Swamp Ghost written by Ian Caleb Thomas and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After hearing the story of a ghost that lurks in a swamp, a half-mile from their camp, some strange and spooky things begin to happen around camp. The campers are convinced there might be a ghost, but in a different form. The campers and counselors must figure out what's going on.
Download or read book Kangaroo Squadron written by Bruce Gamble and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1942, while the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single U.S. Army squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy. Based in Australia with inadequate supplies and no ground support, the squadron's pilots and combat crew endured tropical diseases while confronting numerically superior Japanese forces. Yet the outfit, dubbed the Kangaroo Squadron, proved remarkably resilient and successful, conducting long-range bombing raids, carrying out armed reconnaissance missions, and rescuing General MacArthur and his staff from the Philippines. Before now, the story of their courage and determination in the face of overwhelming odds has largely been untold. Using eyewitness accounts from diaries, letters, interviews, and memoirs, as well as Japanese sources, historian Bruce Gamble brings to vivid life this dramatic true account. But the Kangaroo Squadron's story doesn't end in World War II. One of the squadron's B-17 bombers, which crash-landed on its first mission, was recovered from New Guinea after almost seventy years in a jungle swamp. The intertwined stories of the Kangaroo Squadron and the "Swamp Ghost" are filled with thrilling accounts of aerial combat, an epic survival story, and the powerful mystique of an invaluable war relic.
Download or read book The Ghost of Yuckachi Swamp written by Dennis Hockerman and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Crocodile's singing saves his family from poachers who think the swamp is haunted.
Download or read book Bedtime at the Swamp written by Kristyn Crow and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splish splash rumba-rumba bim bam boom! It's bedtime at the swamp—except somebody's not ready. Somebody's still splashing in the water and the mud. Is there a monster on the loose? Kristyn Crow has taken every child's worst nightmare and transformed it into a frolic through swampland. With funny illustrations and a catchy refrain, this story won't scare little monster too much before bedtime.
Download or read book The Haunted Swamp written by Shannon Gilligan and published by Skylark. This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as they open their detective agency, the Secret Gang is called on to investigate the presence of a ghostly apparition at the train yard swamp.
Download or read book Ghosts of the Green Swamp written by Lee Gramling and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tate Barkley is back setting out to the vast and ominous swampland west of Orlando. Tate meets up with the odd and ornery little bald “perfessor" named Monk, who sells elixirs from his odd contraption of a wagon. Tate and Monk—and an odd assortment of other characters—follow a trail that draws them ever deeper into that vast forbidding swampland near the headwaters of the Withlacoochee River. This Cracker Western will have your spine tingling as it races on to the final all-out showdown
Download or read book The Legend of Ghost Dog Island written by Rita Monette and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind Every Legend Lies the Truth. Moving is nothing new for ten-year-old Nikki Landry. Her father relocates their raggedy old houseboat several times a year in search of better crabbing spots. However, their latest move has brought her to a mysterious bayou where she feels something is watching her from a nearby island. Nikki learns of a local legend about something sinister inhabiting those swamps, stealing the souls of dogs...which would explain the strange howling sounds. Papa reassures her there's nothing on the island but gators and snakes. He should know. He's spent his whole life trapping and fishing those bayous and swamps...But maybe there's something Papa doesn't know. Nikki and her new friends begin to uncover strange happenings from years ago that may have started the old legend...and town folks aren't talking. Then her beloved beagle goes missing. Join Nikki as she seeks to discover the real truth behind the legend of Ghost Dog Island...before it's too late.
Download or read book IS IT A GHOST OR SWAMP LIGHTS written by Carol Nicholson and published by Carol Nicholson. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of an afterlife and ghosts has a universal appeal that transcends time and culture. This book sheds light on the topic, while simultaneously offering some practical advice for living in this world with its limited number of hours we have left. The author's journey through his own personal experiences will help others who are also seeking to understand the supernatural. It is hoped that it may be helpful to those who believe they see or hear something beyond our physical reality. In addition - perhaps more importantly - there is no better way than reading about someone else's experience to gain perspective from another angle. If you are experiencing paranormal activity in your life, please know that it is not always due to evil spirits or malicious intent. Some things simply cannot be explained by science alone.
Download or read book Swamp Thing 1985 1996 45 written by Alan Moore and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Ghost Dance,' a story about a young woman trying to drown out the sounds of her ancestors' violent act comes back to haunt a young couple. Swamp Thing might be able to help them—but he's about to take the next step in his spirit quest with John Constantine.
Download or read book The Black Stallion s Ghost written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1995-04-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While riding the Black in the Everglades one day, Alec meets a man astride a ghostly gray mare. Alec’s fascination with the man turns to fear as he realizes the man is dangerously close to insanity. Soon Alec and the Black are caught up in a deadly chase through the depths of the Everglades, where a misstep could be fatal.
