Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys
Author: Various
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2012-12-07
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9780547885520
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Author: Various
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2012-12-07
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9780547885520
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Published: 2013-04-13
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ISBN-13: 9780547863931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan E. Goodman
Publisher: Beyond Words/Atria Books
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 0761327754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does it feel to be near the North Pole when it's so cold that a cup of hot water, thrown in the air, explodes into ice particles? What's it like to be somewhere even colder - the South Pole, where a refrigerator containing fruits and vegetables has to be heated? Come and explore these two places where few people have ever been. Life on the Ice is brimming with fabulous photos and frigid facts about working and living in these exotic frozen worlds.
Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780152014377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe true story of a shy boy who grew up to be one of America's greatest civilrights leaders is told in this picture book biography. Full color.
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Published: 2013-04-12
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ISBN-13: 9780547863917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia Lauber
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2000-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780606366533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor use in schools and libraries only. Tells how hurricanes form, how scientists study them, and how they have affected the United States throughout this century.
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ISBN-13: 9780547863870
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Jour
Published: 2012-12-07
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780547885483
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gail Fishman
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2017-03-22
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0813063248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is for those inhabited by the same desires that drove the early naturalists afield, who yearn to know wilder territory. We read it voraciously, as if in the understanding of how they loved we might also begin to do so, as if in the reliving of their lives we might recapture some vanishing part of the human psyche that must know wilderness."-- Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "Like the naturalists she profiles, Gail Fishman takes us on an odyssey through a time when the extraordinary diversity of the southeastern United States was first being explored and described. . . . Entertaining."-- Steve Gatewood, executive director, Society for Ecological Restoration, Tucson "Fishman modernizes the men and their explorations by retracing the terrain that they explored, wrote about, drew and painted. The result is an intriguing and appealing lesson in biographical and scientific history and a literary reading experience that will appeal to a wide audience."-- William W. Rogers, professor of history emeritus, Florida State University Following the original steps of pioneering naturalists, Gail Fishman profiles thirteen men who explored North America’s southeastern wilderness between 1715 and the 1940s, including John James Audubon, Mark Catesby, John and William Bartram, John Muir, and Alvan Wentworth Chapman. The book is also Fishman’s personal travelogue as she experiences the landscape through their eyes and describes the changes that have occurred along the region’s trails and streams. Traveling by horseback, boat, and foot, these naturalists--dedicated to their task and blessed with passion and insatiable curiosity--explored gentle mountains, regal forests, and shadowy swamps. Their interests ran deeper than merely cataloging plants and animals. They identified the continent’s foundations and the habits and histories of the flora and fauna of the landscape. Fishman tells us who they were and what compelled them to pursue their work. She evaluates what they accomplished and measures their importance, also pointing out their strengths and failings. And she paints an engaging picture of what America was like at the time. Fishman combines natural history and American history into a series of portraits that recapture the American Southeast as it was seen by those who first tramped through the wilderness and whose voices from the beginning urged the preservation of wild places. Gail Fishman, a freelance writer who lives in Tallahassee, has worked for the Florida Defenders of the Environment, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Audubon Society. She is a volunteer for the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and helped form the St. Marks Refuge Association.