Author: Margaret MaronPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692780534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Third installment in the multi-award-winning Deborah Knott mystery series by acclaimed author Margaret Maron.
Shooting at Loons
Author: Margaret MaronPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692780534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Third installment in the multi-award-winning Deborah Knott mystery series by acclaimed author Margaret Maron.
SHOOTING AT LOONS
Author: Margaret MaronPublisher: Deborah Knott Mysteries (Paper
ISBN: 9780997457544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Asked to sit in for a hospitalized judge in gracious old Beaufort, Deborah hopes to spend a restful week at her cousin's nearby Harkers Island cottage; but her very first clamming expedition turns up the corpse of a well-known fisherman. When a second murder occurs, Deborah realize she's dangerously close to a killer...
Shooting and Fishing
Author: Big Game Shooting
Author: Archibald RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Game and game-birds
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Wenham Lake Shooting Record and the "Farm Bag" 1897 to 1925
Author: John Charles PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Game and game-birds
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Killer Market
Author: Margaret MaronPublisher: Mysterious Press
ISBN: 9780892966547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the fifth installment of this engaging series, Judge Deborah Knott is filling in for a district court judge in High Point, North Carolina, when she is cleverly framed for murder, and must clear her name while searching for the real killer. Tour.
Loon Lessons
Author: James D. ParukPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452963657
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world’s foremost observers of the revered waterbird Even those who know the loon’s call might not recognize it as a tremolo, yodel, or wail, and may not understand what each call means, how it’s made, and why. And those who marvel at the loon’s diving prowess might wonder why this bird has such skill, or where loons go when they must leave northern lakes in winter. For these and so many other mysteries, Loon Lessons provides evolutionary and ecological explanations that are curious and compelling. Written by one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, the book is a compendium of knowledge about the common loon and an engaging record of scientific sleuthing, documenting more than twenty-five years of research into the great northern diver. James D. Paruk has observed and compared loons from Washington and Saskatchewan to the coasts of California and Louisiana, from high elevation deserts in Nevada to mountain lakes in Maine. Drawing on his extensive experience, a wealth of data, and well-established scientific principles, he considers every aspect of the loon, from its plumage and anatomy to its breeding, migration, and wintering strategies. Here, in the first detailed scientific account of the common loon in more than thirty years, Paruk describes its biology in an accessible and entertaining style that affords a deeper understanding of this beautiful and mysterious bird’s natural history and annual life cycle.
Mr. Darwin's Shooter
Author: Roger McDonaldPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802194346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A man of faith faces a personal reckoning after working aboard HMS Beagle in this “gripping” historical novel (The Wall Street Journal). Heading off to sea at the age of thirteen, Syms Covington became Charles Darwin’s manservant for seven years, sailing on the historic voyage of the Beagle. Their relationship was an odd one, but it furnished exactly what Darwin needed in order to complete his groundbreaking work, as Covington shot and collected hundreds of specimens which became fodder for The Origin of Species. Now, as Darwin’s groundbreaking book is about to be published, Covington has retired to Australia in poor health—and in a state of moral crisis over his role in undermining the Christian faith that has supported him during his life. As the novel progresses, he looks back on his upbringing in Bedford, England; his coming of age and wholehearted enjoyment of the sensual pleasures available to young sailors; and his unceremonious dismissal by Darwin once the research was complete. “A captivating seafarer’s tale rich in period detail and insight into relations among men,” Mr. Darwin’s Shooter paints a poignant and unforgettable picture of one man forging, then struggling to maintain his faith in an era when it is constantly under attack—from science, from the daily brutality of life during colonial expansion, and from one’s own cold, inexorable logic (Publishers Weekly). “A spectacular tale of 19th-century exploration and the conflict between science and religion, all based on Charles Darwin’s famous voyage of discovery . . . Brilliant.” —Kirkus Reviews
Loon
Author: Henry S. SharpPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803293212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In an unforgettable journey through the symbolic universe and daily life of the Chipewyan of Mission, his work uses the context and meaning of the loon encounter to show how spirits are an actual and almost omnipresent aspect of life.".
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