Download or read book Snow Slides and Scares written by Michael Watson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging collection of three stories, author Michael Watson follows the adventures of brothers Toots and Toby. In the first tale, Toby, Toots, and the Snowman, the boys tell their new friends how they conquered a challenge while building a snowman, with the help of Guthree the seagull and Fivedive the duck. In Sixaz Sees Snow in the Desert, Fourtescue the camel and Sixaz the alphabet snake email Toots and Toby, wanting to know how to see snow and slide in the desert. Toby and Toots give them brilliant ideas. Will Fourtescue and Sixaz be able to have chilly and whizzy adventures? In the final story, Toots and Toby Save the Fishy Five, Toby and Toots visit their grandparents, who live near a canal. Their "Birthday Bunch" friends help them save the "Fishy Five" who live in the garden pond. Guthree reveals his 'secret' at a scary moment. Can Toby and Toot's Grandpa make the fishpond safe? Michael Watson has a home in North Yorkshire, England. Michael is a Quaker and tries to live his life in ways that bring peace, honesty, fairness and simplicity. He believes that children have great wisdom and can help humanity to talk and work together. Michael hopes to do mental health work in Northern Uganda. Snow, Slides, and Scares is the second book in a trilogy about the Birthday Bunch. The third book, Treasure, Trash, and Turtles has been published and Michael has recently finished the first book, Search, Secrets, and Spies. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/SnowSlidesAndScares.html

Download or read book Bub Snow and the Burly Bear Scare written by Carol Wallace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't ever run from a mountain lion." Mother also warned me about people. But she didn't know Jane and Jussy, the children who left us hay when we were so hungry. I may be a little moose, but I'm no dummy. That hay was sooo good.... After our dangerous journey over the mountains, everything here seemed wonderful. I made friends with Raney and Sweet Pea, draft horses on the farm, and Chippy the beaver. I even found my old pal, Snow the wolf. Everything was perfect. Until we met Burly! A grizzly with insomnia, Burly was about the nastiest, scariest character I ever met. All I wanted to do was stay away from him. But when he went after my friends...well, what's a moose to do?

Download or read book First Snow written by Emily Arnold McCully and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-12-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first snow has fallen. The mice children go sledding with Grandma and Grandpa. But at the top of the hill, who will go first? Bitty, the smallest mouse, is scared. When she tries, WHEEEEEE, she finds that sledding is the best! Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully captured the chills and thrills of a first sled ride when first snow was published in 1985. She has added words and created new pictures for this handsome larger edition, a companion to picnic.

Download or read book Polar Bears and Other Scares written by Ron Truman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of freelance writer, Ron Truman, who began writing when bored with his day job. Seeking excitement and novelty, he welcomed hazards and avoided humdrum. The memoir contains thrilling anecdotes and humorous tales and is an insider's perspective on newsworthy events.

Download or read book Dragons in the Snow written by Ed Power and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Power sets the reader down in the midst of a February 2017 blizzard that raked Utah’s Uinta Range as nine snowboarders made their way into the backcountry for a day of intense adventure. As the boarders were taking their first turns, expert avalanche forecaster Craig Gordon was tracking the storm and its impact, posting one of the most dire avalanche forecasts and warnings in his career. In Dragons in the Snow, Power delves into the research and science behind avalanche forecasting and rescue, weaving in the art of backcountry skiing as well as dramatic tales of avalanche accidents, rescues, and recoveries. And he paints compelling portraits of the men and women who have made the study of avalanches their life’s work. The tales told by these avalanche forecasters, as well as the stories of the backcountry riders who may "wake the dragon" make for not just a compelling read, but also a powerful tool for raising avalanche awareness in everyone who plays in the winter backcountry.

Download or read book Growing Up Really Isn t Easy written by Sean Renfrew Kelley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's three books for the price of one in this special compilation novel! Jenny Michaels is an ordinary young girl who has many interests in her life including: dancing, wanting her own puppy, getting rid of zits on her face, and improving her math grades. Jenny may think her problems are the only huge ones that exist on the planet, but little does she realize her young adult after school care teachers: Mr. Keno, Miss Monica, Mr. Jimmy, and Miss Kaitlyn have their own issues to deal with. From working past troubled teenage years to dealing with difficulties in dating, being a young adult can be also be difficult; especially when you still have to prepare lesson plans and help your students with their own large series of personal issues. ""Growing Up Really Isn't Easy"" is a special compilation of the books: ""Growing Up Isn't Easy,"" ""Growing Up Isn't Simple,"" and ""Growing Up Is Complicated.""

Download or read book The Filth of Progress written by Ryan Dearinger and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.

Download or read book The Story of the Trapper written by Agnes C. Laut and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story of the Trapper" by Agnes C. Laut. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book The Fur Trade of America written by Agnes C. Laut and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1921 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arctic Twilight written by Leonard Budgell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Budgell saw the Canadian North like nobody else. He put his observations into words as few others ever could. As a "Servant of the Bay" Budgell ran Hudson’s Bay Company trading posts for decades in isolated communities up the Labrador coast and across the Arctic. Living among aboriginal Canadians he witnessed episodes and heard stories that would never again be repeated - except he wrote them down. His pen memorably portrays everything from dancing northern lights and hunting practices of birds to astonishing human adventures and predicaments. Northern ways intact for centuries changed with rifles and motorboats, radios and electric generators, new foods and different medicines. Most often, it was Budgell who bridged the aboriginal and southern cultures, building and operating remote radio stations at places like Hebron, taking an RCMP officer into a settlement where a choice had to be made between two different codes of law and behaviour in a murder case. In Arctic Twilight, Budgell chronicles, in an outpouring of letters to a much younger female friend, a traditional way of life that was changing forever. Claudia Coutu Radmore, a teacher, writer, and artist, first met Len Budgell in Winnipeg when she was a fine arts student and he had retired from the Company. Their friendship grew stronger when he began writing remarkable letters after she returned to Queen’s University. Now edited and organized by her, this unique memoir is available to the public for the first time.

Download or read book Karakoram written by Steve Swenson and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A memoir of adventure in one of the most dangerous places on the planet • The Karakoram is home to K2, the deadliest of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks The best mountain climbing in the world, Steve Swenson will tell you, is in the Karakoram. Swenson has been climbing in these mountains since 1980 and has a perspective on the land and its people like few others. A complex place, the Karakoram Range is located in Kashmir, a western Himalaya border region that has a long history of tension and conflict between China, India, and Pakistan, tensions that have only been magnified since 9/11. Over the course of more than thirty years climbing there, Swenson’s experiences have been laced with daunting challenges, exhilarating successes, and terrifying moments—caused by the risks inherent in alpine environments, as well as politics below spilling into the peaks above. In Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict, Swenson writes evocatively of his naiveté on his first visit to Pakistan for an attempt on Gasherbrum IV, during which he faced the teeming, bewildering streets of Islamabad and new challenges of dealing with a confusing array of bureaucrats, hiring hundreds of porters desperate for work, as well as the business of attempting to climb a towering peak just shy of 8,000 meters. By 2015 when he invited climbers to join him on an attempt of K6, Swenson had become the old-hand; it was his familiarity with the region that got them through the planning, the trek, and the climb. Even as he managed a busy career and family at home, Swenson returned to the region more than a dozen times, making attempts on well known giants such as K2, Everest, and Nanga Parbat, as well as other, less familiar, peaks. While he often succeeded, he was often turned back, forced from the mountains by weather, failed logistics, fractured team dynamics, or unexpected skirmishes in the region. What drew him, again and again, was that he always learned something new and forged strong bonds with his climbing partners, including Doug Scott, Alex Lowe, Steve House, and others. Stronger still became his friendship with Haji Ghulam Rasool, a local Balti man whom he first met as a young cook in 1984. Rasool and other Pakistanis have served as Swenson’s window on this restive region, revealing how territorial conflicts can affect not just international climbing expeditions, but also the day-to-day livelihood of the local people. Karakoram is Swenson’s personal story of adventure in one of the most dangerous mountain environments on the planet. His love of climbing led him to these summits; his deep respect for the rugged landscapes and local people inspire his return. • A memoir of adventure in one of the most dangerous places on the planet • The Karakoram is home to K2, the deadliest of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks The best mountain climbing in the world, Steve Swenson will tell you, is in the Karakoram. Swenson has been climbing in these mountains since 1980 and has a perspective on the land and its people like few others. A complex place, the Karakoram Range is located in Kashmir, a western Himalaya border region that has a long history of tension and conflict between China, India, and Pakistan, tensions that have only been magnified since 9/11. Over the course of more than thirty years climbing there, Swenson’s experiences have been laced with daunting challenges, exhilarating successes, and terrifying moments—caused by the risks inherent in alpine environments, as well as politics below spilling into the peaks above. In Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict, Swenson writes evocatively of his naiveté on his first visit to Pakistan for an attempt on Gasherbrum IV, during which he faced the teeming, bewildering streets of Islamabad and new challenges of dealing with a confusing array of bureaucrats, hiring hundreds of porters desperate for work, as well as the business of attempting to climb a towering peak just shy of 8,000 meters. By 2015 when he invited climbers to join him on an attempt of K6, Swenson had become the old-hand; it was his familiarity with the region that got them through the planning, the trek, and the climb. Even as he managed a busy career and family at home, Swenson returned to the region more than a dozen times, making attempts on well known giants such as K2, Everest, and Nanga Parbat, as well as other, less familiar, peaks. While he often succeeded, he was often turned back, forced from the mountains by weather, failed logistics, fractured team dynamics, or unexpected skirmishes in the region. What drew him, again and again, was that he always learned something new and forged strong bonds with his climbing partners, including Doug Scott, Alex Lowe, Steve House, and others. Stronger still became his friendship with Haji Ghulam Rasool, a local Balti man whom he first met as a young cook in 1984. Rasool and other Pakistanis have served as Swenson’s window on this restive region, revealing how territorial conflicts can affect not just international climbing expeditions, but also the day-to-day livelihood of the local people. Karakoram is Swenson’s personal story of adventure in one of the most dangerous mountain environments on the planet. His love of climbing led him to these summits; his deep respect for the rugged landscapes and local people inspire his return.

Download or read book The White Indian Boy The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones written by Elijah Nicholas Wilson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 12 Elijah Nicholas Wilson ran away from his family. Fighting off the constraints of his Mormon upbringing he found a new home with a Shoshone Indian tribe. Under their guidance, particularly of the Great Chief Washakie, he learned how to live and survive in the wild lands of the far west. When Elijah turned fourteen, to prevent reprisals against his tribe for his 'abduction, ' he returned to his white family. He then worked as a Pony Express rider, stagecoach driver, trapper, translator, hostler, Indian agent, and whatever else was required to support himself and his family. Elijah Wilson was known as 'Yagaiki' when among the Shoshones, and in his later years as Uncle Nick when entertaining young children with his adventurous exploits. The White Indian Boy is his story.

Download or read book Storm written by George R. Stewart and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land. With Storm, first published in 1941, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots “an incipient little whorl” on the weather map, a developing storm, he suspects, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart’s novel tracks Maria’s progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists, linemen, snowplow operators, a general, a couple of decamping lovebirds, and an unlucky owl, and the storm, surging and ebbing, will bring long-needed rain, flooded roads, deep snows, accidents, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanity’s relationship to and dependence on the natural world.

Download or read book Nessie and His Six Most Exciting Adventures written by Tony Cross and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six charming and funny stories for small children about a very friendly but very large monster that lives at the bottom of Loch Ness. Nessie is very kind and always tries to do good things, often with very funny results. The stories you can look forward to are: Nessie and the Fire Engine, Nessie in the Snow, Nessie and the Elephant, Nessie Helps His Friends, Nessie Goes on Holiday and Nessie and the Fishermen.

Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dreaming of Lions written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dreaming of lions, the author shares stories from her life, from South West Africa (now Namibia) in the 1950s to the Kalahari Desert, where she conducted fieldwork among the Ju/wa Bushmen. Her skills as an observer and a writer put to the test on these and many occasions working with dogs, cats, cougars, deer, and with personal struggles, she has become the author of many books full of insightful observations.

Download or read book Country Life in America written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: