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Author: Steven Biel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0393340805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores how the Titanic disaster became an icon for a variety of groups, including suffragists and their opponents, radicals, reformers, capitalists, critics of technology, racists, and xenophobes.
Author: Steven Biel
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780393039658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nick Offerman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0698138325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.
Author: Steven Biel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780393318739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating exploration of the social, religious and cultural responses to the sinking of the Titanic.
Author: Peter Lourie
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1998-05-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780815603160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lourie completed his trip. It took him three weeks and marked the first time anyone has traveled from the source of the Hudson to the mouth in a single vessel. The Hudson proved to be a very changeable river. It includes seven locks and nine power dams. The northern half is a true river with strong current, but the lower half is tidal, a sunken river from the days of glaciers. In its first 165 miles, it drops more than 4,000 feet to Albany. The second half falls no more than a foot. Lourie's account of his trip is a fresh look at one of America's great and complex waterways, one of the few, in fact, that still contains its historical and biological species of fish. It is also the longest inland estuary in the world. Henry Hudson called it the "great river of the mountains." Nowadays, too often the Hudson is stereotyped as a ruined, polluted industrial river. Its glorious past is compared to its present neglect. In River of Mountains, Peter Lourie combines the Hudson's rich history and descriptions of some of the region's most impressive landscape with the residents of its mill towns, the loggers, commercial fishermen, and barge pilots-all of whom are proof that the river is still a thriving, vital waterway. So, come with Peter Lourie on his trip, come explore with him from a canoe one of this country's great rivers, join him in his wonderful adventure.
Author: Mike Elliott
Publisher:
Published: 2015-09
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780994863300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When restoring a wood-canvas canoe, you don't work on it, you work with it. In This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe, Mike Elliott guides you through the process of bringing your classic heirloom back to life. He takes you step-by-step through all aspects of a canoe restoration from assessment to the finishing touches. Concise instructions clearly illustrated, provide the passport you need to embark on this unique adventure.
Author: Dorie Brunner
Publisher:
Published: 2005-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781595980304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An interesting and exciting chronicle of two Wisconsin schoolteachers, who in 1960, spent their summer vacation canoeing the 2,300-plus miles of the Mississippi River from its headwaters to New Orleans. Dorie Brunner's and Lou Germann's story is full of adventures and colorful characters, in particular a kitten named Stinky, rescued from almost-fatal muck by the intrepid travelers. Brunner writes the story almost 50 years after the journey, relying on memory and photos"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Walter Lord
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1453238514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this New York Times bestseller, the author of A Night to Remember and The Miracle of Dunkirk revisits the Titanic disaster. Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember was a landmark work that recounted the harrowing events of April 14, 1912, when the British ocean liner RMS Titanic went down in the North Atlantic Ocean, a book that inspired a classic movie of the same name. In The Night Lives On, Lord takes the exploration further, revealing information about the ship’s last hours that emerged in the decades that followed, and separating myths from facts. Was the ship really christened before setting sail on its maiden voyage? What song did the band play as water spilled over the bow? How did the ship’s wireless operators fail so badly, and why did the nearby Californian, just ten miles away when the Titanic struck the iceberg, not come to the rescue? Lord answers these questions and more, in a gripping investigation of the night when approximately 1,500 victims were lost to the sea.
Author: Vera B. Williams
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1984-08-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0688040721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follow the red canoe from page to page as it journeys down river carrying the family on a camping tour. It's the next best thing to paddling it yourself.
Author: Megan Baldino
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558688629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follow a young couple as they spend the summer traveling the "mighty Yukon." Stories of adventure, romance, and history combine with breathtaking photos to give us a very personal view of one of the last and greatest wild, unspoiled rivers in North America.
