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Glacier National Park: A Natural History Guide (Natural History Guides)
David Rockwell Manufacturer: Mariner Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0395699819 |
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Consisting of more than a million acres straddling the Continental Divide, Glacier is one of the largest, wildest, and most spectacular of our national parks. Ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 feet in elevation, with moist climates to the west and dry ones to the east, Glacier is rich in topographical and biological diversity, and although it attracts over 2 million visitors a year, it is still largely wilderness. Like the first two guides in this new series, Grand Canyon and Great Smokies, this book includes a fascinating narrative that captures the park's unique personality, natural history, and human history, as well as a wealth of reference material on plants and animals, geology, climate, and visitor information. The book is illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps.Customer Reviews:
A NECESSARY GUIDE TO A NATIONAL TREASURE.......2000-03-28
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Glacier Park Wildlife: A Watcher's Guide Includes Listings for Waterton Lakes National Park (Wildlife Watcher's Guide Series)
Todd Wilkinson , and Michael H. Francis Manufacturer: Northword Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1559711442 |
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Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska (New American West Series)
Theodore Catton Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0826318274 |
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This volume, the first in the New American West Series edited by Elliott West, explores Alaska's vast national park system and the evolution of wilderness concepts in the twentieth century. After World War II, Alaska's traditional Eskimos, Indians, and whites still trapped, hunted, and fished in the forests. Their presence challenged the uninhabited national parks and forced a complex debate over "inhabited wilderness." Focusing on three principal national parks--Glacier Bay, Denali, and Gates of the Arctic--the author explores the idea of "inhabited wilderness," which culminated in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980. Among other units, the legislation set aside ten national parks, nine of which allow Alaska natives, whites included, "customary and traditional" subsistence use.
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Motorist's guide to the Going-to-the-Sun Highway: With a brief account of the park's geologic history (Special bulletin / Glacier Natural History Association)
M. E Beatty Manufacturer: Glacier Natural History Association in cooperation with National Park Service, Dept. of Interior ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007FW240 |
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This Old Boat
Don Casey Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071579931 |
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Let's say you're a typical low-paid working stiff. You've sailed small boats all your life, you've saved a little money--you're finally ready for a real cruising boat. You drop in on Tadd, your friendly neighborhood yacht broker, who is more than happy to sell you that brand-new Trickledown 32 for only $90,000, plus a few optional extras like anchors, sails, cushions, a compass, instruments--stuff like that; say, $115,000 ready to sail.
"One hundred and fifteen thousand . . . dollars?"
"Not to worry," says Tadd. "Only 20% down and 10 years of easy payments and you're off into the sunset. Let's see, that's $23,000 down and, at 10% interest, only $1,215.79 per month--plus insurance of course. Send me a postcard from Tahiti."
"How much per month? That's half my salary! Don't you have anything in my price range?"
Tadd glances conspicuously at his Rolex, sighing, and points to a characterless Clorox jog with a spindly mast--a hyperthyroid daysailer with bunks for the seven dwarfs; NOT what you had in mind!
And then you see it, in the back of the yard, varnish hanging in strips off weather-beaten trim, rigging frayed, sails ripped and stained, dank interior with dangling wires and scurrying anonymous inhabitants. But underneath all the squalor you see the lines of a real cruising boat--a sturdy hull with a sprightly sheer from the pen of a Philip Rhodes or a Tom Gillmer--a fiberglass boat built back when craftsmanship still meant something.
You remember when you bought your house--it looked a lot like this boat, and you and your all-thumbs husband managed to breathe life into it over time, painting, papering, spackling--lots of spackling. This boat has possibilities.
"How much?" you ask.
"You're kidding, right?" says Tadd, flicking a bit of cobweb from his spotless Breton Reds. "Take it for, say, $8,000?"
Sold.
Well, now you've got it home, but Bob and Norm aren't there every weekend to help guide you through this restoration. Where to turn?
Turn to This Old Boat. Don Casey, co-author of Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach, assumes you know nothing--not even how to use tools--and leads you methodically and good-naturedly through every step of turning a cast-off fiberglass boat into a real show-stopper, including the simplest and most comlete explanation yet of sailmaking--the sailor's darkest and most expensive art. Casey's step-by-step drawings guide you through a simple project--laying up a fiberglass instrument case, for example--then show you how to apply those skills to something more ambitious--like building a new hatch.
With this book and the best buyer's market in boating history, you can send Tadd that postcard from Tahiti--and have money to spare.
Can't afford that brand-new boat?
Take advantage of the best buyer's market in boating history. Turn a rundown production boat into a first-class yacht with This Old Boat.
Whether you are skilled or unskilled, whether you like sail or powerboats, here is everything you need to:
"Casey's intelligent, practical advice covers just about everything, and his style is just what the doctor ordered for anyone daft enough to want to fix up an old boat."--Southern Boating
"A great book for anyone on the water."--Maine Coastal News
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This Old Boat.......2006-07-22
Before you buy that old boat - READ THIS BOOK!.......2006-04-02
Absolutely a MUST for your boat -- you need this book........2005-07-14
Not complete.......2001-05-26
I wish there were 10 stars! It should be on everyones shelf........2001-02-05
This is the MOST valuable of my 80 or 90 boatbuilding books, hands-down. It doesn't matter what construction material you are using, or what your level of expertise. At the very least, it is a fun, witty, and motivating book. Even if you come out of it with no more knowledge than when you started (I guarantee that will not happen), it will give you the necessary wisdom and motivation to stay the course. It was the first 'boat building' book I ever purchased, and it alone motivated me to stop dreaming about a boat, and to start building/rebuilding one. And it was to this book I turned whenever a project was frustrating (this is almost daily, for the uninitiated--and he explains this, too). It was also the book I used as a primary reference, and it served me very well in the rebuilding of two medium-sized boats. It has since served me equally well in the building of boats from plans, though you will need more than he offers for this (that does not mean instead of this, but in addition to his book, another will be necessary).
Whether you are going to build a boat from scratch, or you are going to refurbish an older boat (he makes a hard sell), this book MUST be read. If you have only one book on your shelf pertaining to the construction/reconstruction/maintenance, this should be it. You will never forget it, and you will recommend it to others as strongly as I am to you. Your boat will feel naked without it.
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This Old Boat, Second Edition
Don Casey Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071477942 |
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Turn a run-down fiberglass boat into a first-class yacht
Since it first appeared in 1991, Don Casey’s This Old Boat has helped tens of thousands of sailors refurbish older fiberglass boats and has become a revered classic among boat rehabbers. This second edition is revised from first page to last with new information on electrical systems, diesel engines, refrigeration, resins, plumbing and more. Plus, more than 350 newly created illustrations enhance the book’s beauty as well as its utility.
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PONTIAC: Black and Blue; Give Back My Heart; I Loved You Yesterday; If I Had a Boat; L. A. County; M-O-N-E-Y; She's Hot to Go; She's No Lady; Simple Song; Walk Through the Bottomland; An Acceptable Level of Ecstasy; Closing Time; God Will; This Old Porch
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GST67O |
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This Old Boat
Don Casey Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OG7BFC |
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This Old Boat
Casey Don Manufacturer: International Marine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDRCP8 |
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THIS OLD BOAT Turn a Rundown Fiberglass Boat Into a First-Class Yacht on a Shoe-String Budget
Don Casey Manufacturer: McGraw Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JVGLQM |
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Lonely Planet Bushwalking in Papua New Guinea
Yvon Perusse Manufacturer: Lonely Planet ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0864420528 |
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Papua New Guinea is one of those destinations so far off the beaten path that good guidebooks for the region are few and far between. Trust Lonely Planet, however, to rectify that situation. In Bushwalking in Papua New Guinea, author Yvon Pérusse introduces you to this remote and rugged land. Because roads are a rarity in Papua New Guinea, walking is often the only way to get from one place to another; it's also a great way to really see the country, meet the people, and open yourself to myriad experiences often missed by those in cars.There are 10 main walks detailed in Bushwalking in Papua New Guinea, plus many other suggested walks and some variations on the primary ones. They vary in length, difficulty, landscape, and culture, ranging from a fairly easy three-day stroll along the coast of Milne Bay to a strenuous six-day trek through the Owen Stanley mountain range. Maps, notes, and practical information are included in each chapter, and color photographs throughout the book provide plenty of inspiration to follow in Pérusse's footsteps.
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39 Maps
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Bushwalking in Australia (Lonely Planet Walking Guides)
John Chapman , and Monica Chapman Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0864420072 |
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55 MapsCustomer Reviews:
The Best Way to See Australia.......2000-05-30
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Lonely Planet Bushwalking in Papua New Guinea (Lonely Planet Walking Guides)
Riall W. Nolan Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0908086415 |
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Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0143038710 |
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From the author of the international bestseller Zlata's Diary comes a haunting testament to how war's brutality affects the lives of young peopleZlata Filipovic's diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her a globally recognized spokesperson for children affected by military conflict. In Stolen Voices, she and co-editor Melanie Challenger have gathered fifteen diaries of young people coping with war, from World War I to the struggle in Iraq that continues today. Profoundly affecting testimonies of shattered youth and the gritty particulars of war in the tradition of Anne Frank, this extraordinary collection the first of its kindis sure to leave a lasting impression on young and old readers alike.
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Precious..and painful.......2007-04-13
Through the Eyes of the Innocents.......2007-04-13
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Stolen Words (Ag Fiction (American Girl))
Amy Goldman Koss Manufacturer: American Girl ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1584853778 |
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O.K., but not great.......2004-06-25
Super!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-07-07
Stolen Words... An Awesome Book!!.......2001-10-22
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Galatea (Salt Modern Poets S.)
Melanie Challenger Manufacturer: Salt Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1844712907 |
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In Galatea, her first collection, Challenger casts a poet's sensitive eye across the hours of a tumultuous century to create startling poems whose voice - resolute, compassionate, original - both celebrates and mourns the tensions of human nature. Drawing her themes from the Pygmalion myth, Challenger portrays her subjects in trembling poise between action and inaction, consummation and defeat.Customer Reviews:
Black and White--What's in a name?.......2007-07-27
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Marc Brown's Arthur Chapter Books: Volume 3: Buster's Dino Dilemma; The Mystery of the Stolen Bike; Arthur and the Lost Diary (Marc Brown's Arthur, 3)
Marc Brown Manufacturer: Imagination Studio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette Similar Items:
ASIN: 0807280909 Release Date: 2000-03-14 |
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Read by Mark Linn-Baker
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The stolen Diary
kate and Pascal, Francine William Manufacturer: Bantam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GRO4ZE |
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The Stolen Diary (Sweet Valley High)
Francine Pascal Manufacturer: Bantam Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OZVTHO |
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STOLEN DIARY, THE (Sweet Valley High)
Francine Pascal Manufacturer: Sweet Valley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0553292307 Release Date: 1992-03-01 |
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Elizabeth's mistake.......2000-06-13
I liked the story, because it tells of a difficult situation that isn't sugar coated. It is dealt with as it would be in a real life situation. Elizabeth does not remain calm throughtout the ordeal: she needs comfort, and expresses her anger. If you like Sweet Valley books, I would recommend this book, and #48, Slam Book Fever, which has the same message.
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The Stolen Diary. Sweet Valley High
Manufacturer: Bantam Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GSK4JS |
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The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary
Ralph Melnick Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0300069073 |
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Meyer Levin`s overtly `Jewish` dramatization of Anne Frank`s Diary was rejected in favor of a play with a more universal message, conceived by Lillian Hellman and others in her circle. Levin was convinced that a conspiracy existed to delete the Jewish elements from the diary. Now Melnick draws on material never used before-including papers of Lillian Hellman, Otto Frank, and other key players-and substantiates Levin`s claims.Customer Reviews:
You should look at the LA Times Book Review of this Book........1997-11-21
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Stolen Voices, Yourng People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq
Zlata & Challenger, Malanie (eds.) Filipovic Manufacturer: Penguin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000VBCLVE |
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