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Author: David Millett
Publisher: David Millett Publications
Published: 2009-12-02
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1449515460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written in an interlaced diary format, the stories of pilot Millett and intrepid passenger and companion Buss, this volume shares the modern-day adventure of touring the country in a self-piloted private airplane.
Author: Brian McAllister
Publisher: Airlife Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781853108655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Designed to help pilots at all levels of experience, this book concentrates on the full utilization of an aircraft's safe flight parameters. In particular, it covers the topics of low-speed flight during take-off and landing, and essential performance problems encountered in normal flying.
Author: George C. Wilson
Publisher: Naval Inst Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781557509253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This chronicle of a year spent with the 100th test-pilot class at the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River, Maryland, provides a look at the challenges and dangers facing naval test pilots in the 1990s.
Author: Brian Greene
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 0307268888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A futuristic reimaging of the classic Greek myth, as a boy ventures through deep space and challenges the awesome power of black holes. The beauty of the book lies in the images, provided by NASA and the Hubble Space telescope, and printed on board rather than paper.
Author: David Millett
Publisher: David Millett
Published: 2013-10-17
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1482395533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two massive and ruthless companies, the Dane Corporation and Norge Industries, are at war. The head of the Dane Corporation, President and CEO Hamlet Dane has died unexpectedly. His brother Claud Dane has taken control of the company and married his brother’s wife. Hamlet’s daughter Femlet Dane was being groomed by her father to become the CEO of the company, but her uncle has other plans. An inward morose woman everyone assumed this was just the way she was, but she has a dark secret. She is devastated at the unexpected death of her beloved father and incensed over her mother’s marriage to her uncle. Her hatred turns into rage and she slowly descends into madness.
Author: Richard Evelyn Byrd
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1442241713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American hero and explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. tells the story of his first journey through Antarctica and the founding of a series of camps and bases referred to as “Little America.” Over the years, many similar areas were developed as camps and research areas on Byrd’s Antarctic missions, but the founding of “Little America” required great courage and leadership. In awe of the unforgiving landscape, he eagerly met its treacherous challenges. Byrd outlines the blueprint for his first mission to Antarctica and provides a glimpse into the obstacles he and his team overcame at the world’s end. Reissued for today’s readers, Admiral Byrd’s classic explorations by land, air, and sea transport us to the farthest reaches of the globe. As companions on Byrd’s journeys, modern audiences experience the polar landscape through Byrd’s own struggles, doubts, revelations, and triumphs and share the excitement of these timeless adventures.
Author: Gunnar Hansen
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 1993-08-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781559632515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.
Author: Thom van Dooren
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0231537441
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.
Author: Matt McLaughlin
Publisher:
Published: 2016-02-24
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9789881403605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Flying the Knife Edge' is the story of an ordinary man experiencing extraordinary things as a bush pilot in remote Papua New Guinea in the 1990s. This critically acclaimed memoir chronicles New Zealander Matt McLaughlin's adventures on the knife edge of bush pilot ops in one of the world's most dangerous flying environments. A hair raising tal
Author: David Millett
Publisher: David Millett Publications
Published: 2013-10-17
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1481215795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Join authors Julia Buss and David Millett on a comical jaunt through some of the big questions in life. Using rhyme and illustrations they explore some of the ideas we hold dearest. Come take the ride with Tricky Nick Trickadee and his faithful dog Lucretius, if you dare.
