Author: John LanePublisher:
ISBN: 9780881468274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Still Upright & Headed Downstream
Author: John LanePublisher:
ISBN: 9780881468274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Effect of Ventilation on the Water Spray Pattern of Automatic Sprinkler Heads
Author: Report of Investigations
Author: Estimation of Shear Strength Using Fractals as a Measure of Rock Fracture Roughness
Author: Paul C. McWilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rock mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Chattooga
Author: John LanePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346225
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers. In later years, untold numbers and kinds of people have felt the draw of the river’s torrents, which pour down the Appalachians along the Georgia-South Carolina border. Because of Deliverance the Chattooga looms enigmatically in our shared imagination, as iconic as Twain’s Mississippi—or maybe Conrad’s Congo. This is John Lane’s search for the real Chattooga—for the truths that reside somewhere in the river’s rapids, along its shores, or in its travelers’ hearts. Lane balances the dark, indifferent mythical river of Deliverance against the Chattooga known to locals and to the outdoors enthusiasts who first mastered its treacherous vortices and hydraulics. Starting at its headwaters, Lane leads us down the river and through its complex history to its current status as a National Wild and Scenic River. Along the way he stops for talks with conservation activists, seventh-generation residents, locals who played parts in the movie, day visitors, and others. Lane weaves into each encounter an abundance of details drawn from his perceptive readings and viewings of Deliverance and his wide-ranging knowledge of the Chattooga watershed. At the end of his run, Lane leaves us still fully possessed by the Chattooga’s mystery, yet better informed about its place in his world and ours.
The Hero
Author: Ron WoodsPublisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307556700
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Nobody would believe Dennis Leeper was a hero. He was the kind of kid you hid from when he pedaled his rickety bike down the road. But Jamie couldn’t say no when his father asked him to include Dennis in the raft project. And someone needed to hold the line when Jamie and his cousin Jerry finally got the raft in the river. But they should have known that Dennis couldn’t be trusted to hold onto it. Without paddles and out of people’s sight, the three boys are swept downstream—toward the dams, the steep falls, and three separate destinies. One swims to shore. One is rescued. And one never returns alive. Overcome by guilt and the fear that Dennis’s father will take revenge for his son’s death, Jamie tells everyone how he survived: Dennis was a hero. The question is: Will anyone believe it?
First Descents
Author: Richard BangsPublisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897326873
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Dropping into the unknown on a rubber raft, hurled against rocks and cliff walls, only to round a blind bend, go vertical on a 10-foot standing wave, and flip over backwards into a deafening vat of near-freezing whitewater. Such is life for the brave souls who commit themselves to exploring the world’s untried rivers. First Descents collects the most enthralling tales from the world’s most respected river explorers. Vivid portrayals in the adventurers’ own words and original photographs tell of solitary efforts and major expeditions on rivers both famous and unknown, including the Yangtze River in China, the Colorado River in Arizona, Ethiopa’s Baro River, and the Braldu River in Pakistan. With stories from Royal Robbins, Tao Berman, Yvonne Chouinard, and others, this newly revised and expanded edition of the 1989 classic captures the excitement, fear, and elation of over four decades of river exploration.
Gold Dust
Author: Emily KrokoszPublisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780446567145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
When Katy O'Connell saves Jonah Armstrong from a bar fight, he decides to hire her as a guide on his journey to the Klondike. But Jonah had thought Katy to be a boy, and when he finds out the truth, their relationship takes a new direction.
Lost in Mongolia
Author: Colin AngusPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767912810
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it. Exploration is Colin Angus’ calling. It is not only the tug of excitement and challenge that keeps sending him on death-defying journeys down some of the world’s most powerful waterways, it is a desire to know a place more intimately than you could from the window of a train, to feel the soul of a place. Angus emphasizes that rivers have always been key to the development of complex societies and the rise of civilizations, offering as they do irrigation, transportation, hydroelectric power, and food. But, as Lost in Mongolia captures with breathtaking detail, while they giveth plenty, the great rivers also taketh away in an instant. In Lost in Mongolia, Colin Angus takes readers through never-before-seen territory and his wonderful sense of adventure and humour come through on every page.
In the Company of Writers 2008
Author: Meadow Brook Writing ProjectPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440193983
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In July 2008, teachers of writing came together at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, to share their knowledge, experience and creative expression in language arts as participants in the Meadow Brook Writing Project. Affiliated with the National Writing Project, the Meadow Brook Writing Project's 2008 Summer Institute provided these teachers with the opportunity to learn from each other and write together during a month of intensive professional development. IN THE COMPANY OF WRITERS 2008 is the wonderful anthology resulting from their collaboration. All participants, from elementary through college, returned to their classrooms in the fall inspired and ready to pass on that inspiration to their students in order to help them become better writers.