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Author: Tanya Savory Publisher: Townsend Press ISBN: 1591941806 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 150
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"Abraham Lincoln grew up with little more than a second-grade education. His father thought school was a waste of time and wanted young Abe to learn carpentry and farming instead. Even so, Lincoln developed a love of reading so great that he would often walk five miles just to borrow a book. In time, his reading would help to shape a sharp mind, a keen sense of humor, and a kind heart. Lincoln carried these qualities with him from a dirt-floor cabin in Kentucky all the way to the White House. As President, he would fight to keep our country from breaking apart, and he would ultimately free 4,000,000 slaves. However, there would be a price to pay for these triumphs--a very high price, indeed."--Publisher
Author: Tanya Savory Publisher: Townsend Press ISBN: 1591941806 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
"Abraham Lincoln grew up with little more than a second-grade education. His father thought school was a waste of time and wanted young Abe to learn carpentry and farming instead. Even so, Lincoln developed a love of reading so great that he would often walk five miles just to borrow a book. In time, his reading would help to shape a sharp mind, a keen sense of humor, and a kind heart. Lincoln carried these qualities with him from a dirt-floor cabin in Kentucky all the way to the White House. As President, he would fight to keep our country from breaking apart, and he would ultimately free 4,000,000 slaves. However, there would be a price to pay for these triumphs--a very high price, indeed."--Publisher
Author: Candice Millard Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 030757508X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 442
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait—the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. “A rich, dramatic tale that ranges from the personal to the literally earth-shaking.” —The New York Times The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut. Look for Candice Millard’s latest book, River of the Gods.
Author: Colleen Paeff Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1534449302 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 44
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A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book! Discover the true story about the determined engineer who fixed London’s pollution problem in this funny, accessible nonfiction picture book featuring engaging art from the illustrator of Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine. It’s the summer of 1858, and London’s River Thames STINKS. What is creating this revolting smell? The answer is gross: the river is full of poop. But the smell isn’t the worst problem. Every few years, cholera breaks out, and thousands of people die. Could there be a connection between the foul water and the deadly disease? One engineer dreams of making London a cleaner, healthier place. His name is Joseph Bazalgette. His grand plan to create a new sewer system to clean the river is an engineering marvel. And his sewers will save lives. Nothing stinky about that. With tips for how to prevent pollution today, this fascinating look at science, history, and what one person can do to create change will impress and astound readers who want to help make their planet a cleaner, happier place to live.
Author: Troy Denning Publisher: Wizards of the Coast ISBN: 0786961554 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 267
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The rise of a new queen has shattered the ancient peace of the Ice Spires, and the only thing left standing between Hartsvale and the giant tribes bent on her destruction is a lone scout armed with a single golden arrow. And now that sanctuary is about to end. The queen is trapped in a remote citadel, surrounded by giants, and the scout who would save her must now leave and undertake a harrowing journey to summon help. Only, as the scout soon learns, the greatest danger to the queen is posed not from without, but from within.
Author: Alycia Holston Publisher: CrossRiverKids ISBN: 9781936501052 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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An eagle builds her nest nearby, cars whiz past on the way to visit friends and the Missouri River cuts through the landscape...all while the giant sleeps. In this delightful tale, author Alycia Holston and illustrator Suzi Stranahan introduce you to the Sleeping Giant of Helena, Montana who slumbers while the world continues to grown and change around him.
Author: E. Nelson Kelley Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 1604777354 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 162
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SOMETHING HAPPENED ONE DAY ON A LONG FLIGHT-TRIP IN A METAL CRAFT AS IT TRAVERSED OVER THE INTERNATIONAL TIME LINE AT A SPEED APPROACHING THE SOUND BARRIER. THE FIRST NOTICABLE THING WAS THAT THE COLORS OF THE CLOTHES THE PASSENGERS WORE WERE MUCH BRIGHTER, AND HAD MORE COLOR, AND THE CRAFT WAS MUCH QUIETER. LIKE AN EXCITING DREAM COME TRUE, LATER, IN A LAND CRAFT WHEN THE, NOW ALIENS, CROSSED UNDER A GREAT, HUGE WALL, THEY WERE IN ANOTHER WORLD. THE CIVILIZATION THESE ALIENS, RAN INTO HAD TOTALLY BEEN UNTOUCHED BY ANY OTHER CIVILIZATION ON EARTH. THE STRANGE STREETS AND BUILDINGS WERE DENSLY POPULATED. THE BEINGS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD WOULD TOUCH THEIR SKIN TO SEE IF IT WAS REAL, THEY HAD A STRANGE WAY OF COMMUNICATING WORDS FROM THEIR MOUTHS, BUT A FEW KNEW THE LANGUAGE AND WOULD ASK "WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?", NOT "WHERE ARE YOU FROM?" Has taught school in inner-city with mixed nationalities; in an African-American school; in a rural one ethnic school; in a Bureau of Indian Affairs, American-Indian school, and an all Chinese school. Has taught in middle-school, elementary school, and special education. Has worked with children and the youth in YMCAs, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and has assisted people groups in Burkina-Faso, the Gypsies in Romania, the Hispanics in America, and the Chinese in China. Is currently working with the Hans and Mongolians in northeast China.
Author: Bryan R. Davies Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401732906 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 788
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Our understanding of the ecology of running waters has come a long way during the past few years. From being a largely descriptive subject, with a few under tones concerned with such things as fisheries, pollution or control of blackflies, it has evolved into a discipline with hypotheses, such as the River Continuum Concept (Vannote et a/. 1980), and even a book suggesting that it offers opportunity for the testing of ecological theory (Barnes & Minshall 1983). However, perusal of the literature reveals that, although some of the very early studies were concerned with large rivers (references in Hynes 1970), the great mass of the work that has been done on running water has been on streams and small rivers, and information on larger rivers is either on such limited topics as fisheries or plankton, scattered among the journals, or not available to the general limnologist. The only exceptions are a few books in this series of publications, such as those on the Nile (Rz6ska 1976), the Volga (Morduckai Boltovskoi 1979) and the Amazon {Sioli 1984), and the recent compendium by Whitton (1984) on European rivers, among which there are a few that rate as large.
Author: Ellen E. Wohl Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300103328 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 328
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"Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs and line drawings, this book offers the most comprehensive treatment available of the human impact on our rivers."--BOOK JACKET.
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