Author: Les Bird Publisher: ISBN: 9789887554738 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 128
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"We had no jurisdiction outside Hong Kong waters. But we could see their vessels sinking in heavy seas. It was life or death. We just went." Former Marine Police officer Les Bird tells of the harrowing journey to Hong Kong made by tens of thousands of refugees in the years following the Vietnam War. He photographed their makeshift boats and his pictures tell the stories of these desperate refugees searching for a new life.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the True Boundary of the Chickasaw Indians, between the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers; the True Line between Tennessee and Mississippi; and Delaying Sales of Lands in Northern Mississippi ... Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 18
Author: Eric Flint Publisher: Baen Books ISBN: 1625795459 Category : Languages : en Pages : 331
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Now with new prose material and art! Paradigms Shift, Worlds Collide! A daring and resourceful paleontologist uncovers something at the infamous K-T boundary marking the end of dinosaurs in the fossil record something big, dangerous, and absolutely, categorically impossible. It's a find that will catapult her to the Martian moon Phobos, then down to the crater-pocked desert of the Red Planet itself. For this mild-mannered fossil hunter may just have become Earth's first practicing xenobiologist! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author: Louise De Vorsey Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820332429 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 242
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Since 1732, when Georgia was created out of South Carolina territory, the boundary between the two states has been disputed. This controversy reignited in the 1970s, culminating in a suit filed by Georgia in the U. S. Supreme Court to ascertain the location of the true boundary line between the states. De Vorsey's book grows out of this controversy and is a detailed examination of the historical geography of that boundary. After reviewing the events that led to the 1977 litigation, De Vorsey provides a detailed analysis of Georgia's original charter and the 1787 Treaty of Beaufort--two documents crucial to an understanding of the dispute. Using documentary and cartographic resources, he reconstructs the geographical conditions that existed at the time the documents were drafted and investigates how eighteenth-century Georgians and South Carolinians perceived these conditions. In the course of his inquiry he discusses the tremendous natural forces that have sculpted and re-sculpted the unstable shorelines and islands formed by geologically youthful delta sediments. He considers, too, the impact of man on the environment as he attempted to control nature and improve navigability on the Savannah River. The study concludes with a discussion of the particular areas of the Savannah River's shores and islands involved in the Supreme Court litigation.
Author: Les Bird
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the True Boundary of the Chickasaw Indians, between the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers; the True Line between Tennessee and Mississippi; and Delaying Sales of Lands in Northern Mississippi ...
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