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Author : Ann Urness Gesme
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Norway
ISBN : 9780963518903
Description of the lives of Norwegian immigrants to the United States.
Author : Roger Moody
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1848137753
The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mining corporations are encroaching on more and more greenfield sites in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, to serve ever-expanding global industries. Moody shows that large-scale mining imposes a heavy toll on local communities, on their fragile economies and ways of life, as well as the environment. He challenges the mining corporations' recent public relations offensive extolling the virtues of largescale mining and its alleged compatibility with sustainable development, and reveals the unprecedented wave of community and trade union opposition to projects in both the South and the North. This important book concludes with urgent proposals to check the role of multinationals in a sector that has always been at the core of resource exploitation.
Author : Aron Ralston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1849835098
A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story. On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep and remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted and snared his right arm against the canyon wall. He was trapped, facing dehydration, starvation, hallucinations and hypothermia as night-time temperatures plummeted. Five and a half days later, Aron Ralston finally came to the agonising conclusion that his only hope was to amputate his own arm and get himself to safety. Miraculously, he survived. 127 Hours is more than just an adventure story. It is a brave, honest and above all inspiring account of one man's valiant effort to survive, and is destined to take its place among adventure classics such as Touching the Void.
Author : John Omwake
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595366422
Four stories, four slices of life. Four people trapped between "Rocks and Hard Places": * A 'good old boy" watches his world crumble before him. * A has-been starlet seeks redemption in the mountains of Colorado. * A drifter struggles with memories of a lost friend. * A coal miner's daughter who has come up in the world faces a choices: worldly goods or her honor. Four stories, four people in crisis, facing life-or-death decisions. What will they do?
Author : Paul Lyle
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780337095870
Illustrating the variety of the Irish landscapes this book explores the landscapes that are linked to rocks and the rocks to history, past and present. For its size there is a great range of rock types and rock ages in the northern third of Ireland.Interspersed with the brief text are sections entitled Mythology and Geology. Here will be found stories of Finn McCool, who of course was a wellknown local giant, the Children of Lir, the tragedy of Finngheal, the speaking horse of Benlaughlin, Câlann's Hound, the sacred waters of the Shannon Pot and more. Then there is Ireland's World Tour which traces the origin of our rocks to distant places before they came together in the emerald isle. Sections headed - Did you know, explains some of the natural wonders like Sligo's coral reefs, the Marble Arch Caves and the equivalent of Death Valley in Co Down. Forces that changed the landscape describes the volcanic past with yet more facts and fiction/mythology. Then the story moves to times when humans arrived on these shores. The Axe Factor is about the Stone Age and how local axes transformed life and the landscape. Prominent Monuments follows the theme of the prehistoric peoples and their stone circles and dolmens. The Era of Buildings takes the reader through to the Middle Ages with castles, crosses and temples. Then it moves on to more modern times and the buildings of the last century. Finally, a chapter called Ancient Resources, Modern Dilemmas. Perhaps most surprising will be how much use has been made of the natural resources, yet the wounds to the landscape have mostly healed. Now another phase of mineral and gas exploration is upon us. New sorts of maps are being developed to meet modern needs, which will include coping with a growing population in a seemingly ever more wasteful and energy inefficient society.
Author : Natalie M. Rosinsky
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404803343
The rocks you see everyday can be grouped into different types, like igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic. Some rocks are actually minerals, and you can even find fossils in some types of rocks. Complete with activities and experiments, this nonfiction science book is perfect for introducing children to geology.
Author : Leslie McGuirk
Publisher : Tricycle Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1582463700
Amazing rocks, found on a stretch of beach near the author's home, comprise this unique alphabet book. A is for Addition, and there are rocks in the shape of real numbers, too. B is for Bird, and there is a bird rock on a nest with an egg. G is for Ghosts, and there is a host of rocks that look like ghosts! Children and adults alike will pore over these fascinating rocks, and will be inspired collect their own.
Author : The North of England PandI Association
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9780993555527
Author : Peggy Christian
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152393397
Discover the joy of rock hunting.
Author : Bob Shepton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1472905865
Bob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his late 70s, but spends most of his time sailing into the Arctic and making first ascents of inaccessible mountains. No tea parties for this vicar. Opening with the disastrous fire that destroyed his yacht whilst he was ice-bound in Greenland, the book travels back to his childhood growing up on the rubber plantation his father managed in Malaysia, moving back to England after his father was shot by the Japanese during the war, boarding school, the Royal Marines, and the church. We then follow Bob as he sails around the world with a group of schoolboys, is dismasted off the Falklands, trapped in ice, and climbs mountains accessible only from iceberg-strewn water and with only sketchy maps available. Bob Shepton, winner of the 2013 Yachtsman of the Year Award, is an old-school adventurer, and this compelling book is in the spirit of sailing mountaineer HW Tilman, explorer Ranulph Fiennes, climber Chris Bonington and yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston, all of whom have been either friends of Bob's or an inspiration for his own exploits. Derring do in a dog collar! Ranulph Fiennes: 'A wonderful true tale of adventure.' Bear Grylls: 'You are going to enjoy this...as a Commando, Bob is clearly made of the right stuff!'