Download or read book Two Tales of Old Kodiak written by Steve Descloux and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let this author take you back with a couple memories to an earlier, wilder Kodiak, Alaskawhen the seafood industry was booming and the town never went to sleep, when trappers were popular and often sold most of their prime furs to the locals and tourists, when the churches and the bars ran neck and neck in number and the congregation was always greatest in the latter. The "Wreck of the Rustler" will give the reader a feel for what living on Kodiak Island meant in the 1950s and '60s and take a few boat rides around the island, one of which became a terrifying nightmare for the four young boys aboard when the skipper and other adults drank too much whiskey. The boat plowed into a rockpile on a windy Christmas night and began taking on water. For hours, impending death loomed in their thoughts as they helped in the fight to save the vessel and aid toward their eventual rescue by Coast Guard helicopters. "Confessions of a Seal Hunter" is a descriptive recollection of a small-scale commercial seal hunt down the east side of Kodiak Island during which an untried boy took his first steps into manhood, learning the skills of work and survival as he followed his skipper down the island in a small skiff; dreading his first kill with the club, learning to skin the seals and care for the hides; working brutal, long hours every day to help increase the catch; and learning that a workingman was expected to carry his share of the load no matter how tired, wet, and cold he was.
Download or read book Kodiak Tales written by Harry B. Dodge and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells 8 short stories from Alaska's history and then 5 personal accounts of life in the Alaskan backcountry.
Download or read book Tales of an Old Sea Port written by Wilfred Harold Munro and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of an Old Sea Port written by Wilfred Harold Munro and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest days of the Plymouth Colony, the name Mount Hope Lands has been applied to the peninsula in Narragansett Bay of which Bristol, Rhode Island, is the chief town. The history of this town is more crowded with notable incidents than that of any other in New England. The first and most picturesque is the story of the Norsemen. Around Mount Hope the legends of the Norsemen cluster, shadowy, vague, elusive, and yet altogether fascinating. Only legends they are and must remain.
Download or read book Bear Tales for the Ages written by Larry Kaniut and published by Larry Kaniut. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collector of bear lore for nearly half a century, author Larry Kaniut has chosen these tales and legends for their focus on the wisdom of bears and the strength of the human spirit in encounters with them. An Alaskan legend himself, Larry brings together 28 amazing stories of encounters with this four-legged wonder of the woods, spanning the time period from 1816 to 1999.
Download or read book Tales of the North American Indians written by Stith Thompson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of Indian tales in which each tale is shown to be representative of a certain type of tale which occurs in more than one tribe or geographical region.
Download or read book A Schoolteacher In Old Alaska written by Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuit and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly. It is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important—and, at times, unsettling—insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settlers’ behaviour toward native communities at the turn of the century.
Download or read book Books and Notes written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Lies Alternative Cover written by H Hunting and published by Ink & Cupcakes, Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotional, angst-ridden story about two childhood friends who learned to rely on one another to cope with their anxiety, only to be torn apart. As they reunite, they must try to avoid falling into old behaviors.
Download or read book Full Moon City written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DANGER LURKS IN THE HEART OF THE CITY . . . BUT NOT ALWAYS WHERE YOU EXPECT IT. From New York to Los Angeles to Bucharest, fifteen never-before-published tales by some of the world’s finest fantasy and horror writers celebrate the newest incarnations of an age-old terror that strikes when the moon is full . . . the werewolf. No longer confined to the forests, these modern monsters can be found in places you frequent every day—and never before thought to fear. CARRIE VAUGHN’s popular werewolf radio host Kitty Norville is drawn into a controversy as to whether it’s fair to ban lycanthropy from professional sports. New York’s famous Plaza Hotel is the setting for ESTHER M. FRIESNER’s tale of one very grisly little girl, while Beverly Hills may never quite recover from RON GOULART’s middle-aged Hollywood screenwriter who falls prey to a most unusual problem. Celebrated fantasy author PETER S. BEAGLE tells a chillingly lyrical story of three Louisiana loup garoux locked into a deadly dance of death. Plus many more biting tales from award-winning authors: HOLLY BLACK • P.D. CACEK • GREGORY FROST • TANITH LEE HOLLY PHILLIPS • MIKE RESNICK • DARRELL SCHWEITZER • LISA TUTTLE IAN WATSON • GENE WOLFE • CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO
Download or read book Some Bears Kill written by Larry Kanuit and published by Larry Kaniut. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before have so many exciting, hair-raising tales of bear encounters been collected into one book. Read about a man who swam into a lake to try to escape a furious bear only to find to his horror that bears can swim too! Or of the old gold prospector who got mauled and sewed up his own stomach-and lived to tell about it! When a bear attacks, it does so with devastating ferocity. Although the average attack lasts but thirty seconds, grievous injury can result from powerful paws and jaws. Strangely enough, most attacks are nonfatal. This book is filled with true-life episodes of close-calls, maulings, and deaths by all three North American bears: black, grizzly, and polar. These stories are not fiction. All are, eerily enough, based on complete fact. Even the FOX TV show When Animals Attack uses Kaniut's material for their shows. The author of two previous best-selling books on dangerous bears brings you a cliffhanger-you won't want to miss his latest and best yet!
Download or read book In Search of the Swan Maiden written by Barbara Fass Leavy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the conventional interpretations of the worldwide folktale in which a swan maiden is captured, forced to marry and serve a human man, and eventually finds the key (usually her old skin) and escapes. Leavy (English, City U. of New York) considers the motive in the context of other animal brides, and animal grooms, and finds women socializing other women in a man's world, how myths of feminine evil spread, and how ominous meanings are obscured by traditional happy endings. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Alaska Bear Tales written by Larry Kaniut and published by Larry Kaniut. This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes both humorous and deadly contacts between humans and bears in Alaska and reviews the precautions for avoiding a bear attack
Download or read book Tales from Niki s Midnight Corner written by Tamara Kendall and published by Tawdra Kandle Romance. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six of your favorite authors have banded together to remember beloved blogger Niki Mattes. These stories of magic, mating and mayhem celebrate her life and love of books. All of the proceeds of this project will be donated to offset Niki's final medical costs. Locked in Magic by Mia Ellas: Jack Harrington is a lover, not a fighter. The pack playboy is running from his responsibilities and for his life. When Lyla's life is in danger, Jack's wolf takes over. And fighting is what the wolf does best. Escaping the Ashes by Olivia Hardin: I live to serve the gods. A servant, a protector, an assassin. I've given my life and my death to duty, an ongoing cycle I can't escape. But then I've never before has a reason to... Undeniable by Tamara Kendall: Running from a broken heart means losing myself in alcohol and women . . . until I meet an irresistible redhead who offers me the chance to join an organization that will use my mind manipulating powers to do good. But when a mission takes us undercover, revealing a plot for worldwide anarchy, even our undeniable passion takes a back seat to saving our own lives. Never Trust a Dragon by C.G. Powell: Five years after Lenni's death, Tam is still clinging to his past. But with some gentle prodding from his wife's ghost, he decides it's finally time to give life a second chance. Soon Tam finds himself waist deep in Dragons and over his head in Merlins—What's a man to do? Skin Thief by Melissa Lummis: Ninovan Arrighi thought she'd seen it all until she's assigned to track down a skin thief: her ex-partner, Quil Boudinot. But Quil, with his dark good looks and quiet earnestness, couldn't have been the psychotic fiend who peeled the skin of those people while they screamed. Could he? Knead to Know by Liz Schulte: Maggie Edwards can't sleep, eat, or die—but, she can bake. However, just before the Halloween grand opening of her bakery, a pesky reporter witnesses an accident in her kitchen and gets a little too close to the truth. If she can't convince him to keep quiet, not only will she lose her chance at happiness, but they both could lose their lives.
Download or read book The Alaska Eskimos written by Arthur E. Hippler and published by Fairbanks : Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska. This book was released on 1977 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kodiak s Claim written by Eve Langlais and published by Eve Langlais. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Big Bear Romance He might growl, but she’s not afraid to bite. Hands full taking care of his clan, the last thing this Kodiak bear needs is a woman poking her cute little nose into his affairs. But when she refuses to back down—and shows the courage to stand up to him—he can’t resist the allure of a curvy city girl. She’s mine. All mine. And when a rival clan thinks to use her to force his paw, he’ll show them why you never piss off a Kodiak, or threaten what’s his. Tammy is convinced all men are scum, even gorgeous ones like Reid Carver. She knows he’s hiding something. Something big. She just never expected a real freaking bear hid underneath all those yummy muscles. But when the truth comes out and he tries to scare her off with a roar, she shows him not just bears have bite. Welcome to Kodiak Point, where the wildlife might wear clothes, but animal instinct rules the heart. # 1 Kodiak's Claim , #2 Outfoxed by Love, #3 Polar Bared , #3.5 Caribou's Gift, #4 Wolf's Capture, #5 Grizzly Love Genre: paranormal romance, werewolf romance, shapeshifter romance, fantasy romance, alpha male, bear romance, military romance, humorous romance, comedy romance, Alaska romance
Download or read book Naitaka written by Lee Murphy and published by Defining Moments. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
