In this book you will find descriptions of over 1500 miles on 59 rivers and creeks in Northern Illinois. You will also discover the Indian villages and early settlers and their stories. The author spent over ten years exploring these unique watersheds. From the "Mighty Mississippi" to the smallest canoeable creek, it has all been covered in Canoeing Adventures in Northern Illinois.
Newly updated for 2016, the Northern Illinois Fishing Map Guide is a thorough, easy-to-use collection of detailed contour lake maps, fish stocking and survey data, and the best fishing spots and tips from area experts. Fishing maps, detailed area road maps and exhaustive fishing information for lakes and rivers in the northern half of the state are provided in this handy eBook. Shabbona Lake, Evergreen Lake and the Fox Chain are just some of the notable fishing waters included in this guide, along with Lake Michigan harbors and the Mississippi, Illinois and Rock Rivers. Over 160 lakes and rivers in all! Coverage area runs from just north of Springfield and Decatur to the Wisconsin border. Whether you're salmon fishing on Lake Michigan, throwing bucktails for muskies on Shabbona Lake, casting swimjigs for bass on Lake Vermilion or exploring the little lakes of Kickapoo State Park, you'll find all the information you need to enjoy a successful day out on the water on one of Northern Illinois' many excellent fisheries. Know your waters. Catch more fish with the Northern Illinois Fishing Map Guide.
"Wild by Nature answers the question: how did indigenous animals shape the course of colonization in English America? The book argues that animals acted as obstacles to colonization because their wildness was at odds with Anglo-American legal assertions of possession. Animals and their pursuers transgressed the legal lines officials drew to demarcate colonizers' sovereignty and control over the landscape. Consequently, wild creatures became legal actors in the colonizing process--the subjects of statutes, the issues in court cases, and the parties to treaties--as authorities struggled to both contain and preserve the wildness that made those animals so valuable to English settler societies in North America in the first place. Only after wild creatures were brought under the state's legal ownership and control could the land be rationally organized and possessed. The book examines the colonization of American animals as a separate strand interwoven into a larger story of English colonizing in North America. As such, it proceeds along a different and longer timeline than other colonial histories, tracing a path through various wild animal frontiers from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake into the southern backcountry in the eighteenth century and across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth to end in the southern plains in the decades after the Civil War. Along the way, it maps out an argumentative arc that describes three manifestations of colonization as it variously applied to beavers, wolves, fish, deer, and bison. Wild by Nature engages broad questions about the environment, law, and society in early America"--
The first of its kind, this guide spotlights dozens of award-winning titles that primarily feature a first- or second-generation immigrant child or teen as a narrator or main character.
This guide to prayer, rooted in centuries of Christian tradition, introduces figures such as St. Benedict, Martin Luther, John Calvin, St. Ignatius, Teresa of Ávila and Andrew Murray. You'll learn how each of these spiritual giants uniquely connected to God through prayer and have an opportunity to practice each different method yourself.
