Life in The Great Ice Age

Isabella Lucy Bird; Daniel J. Boorstin. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library, 14). Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd), 01
0806113286 Clean, tight and unmarked. Review In 1854, at the age of twenty-two, Isabella Bird left England and began traveling as a cure for her ill health. Over the years she explored Asia, the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, and both the Eastern and Western United States. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains contains letters written to her sister during her six-month journey through the Colorado Rockies in 1873. Traveling alone, usually on horseback, often with no clear idea of where she will spend the night in what is mostly uninhabited wilderness, she covers over a thousand miles, most of it during the winter months. A well-educated woman who had known a comfortable life, she thinks nothing of herding cattle at a hard gallop, falling through ice, getting lost in snowstorms, and living in a cabin where the temperatures are well below zero and her ink freezes even as she writes. She befriends desperados and climbs 14,000 foot mountains, ready for any adventure that allows her to see the unparalleled beauty of nature. Her rare complaints have more to do with having to ride side-saddle while in town than with the conditions she faces. An awe-inspiring woman, she is also a talented writer who brings to life Colorado of more than one hundred years ago, when today's big cities were only a small collection of frame houses, and while and beautiful areas were still largely untouched. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister In 1854, at the age of twenty-two, Isabella Bird left England and began traveling as a cure for her ill health. Over the years she explored Asia, the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, and both the Eastern and Western United States. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains contains letters written to her sister during her six-month journey through the Colorado Rockies in 1873. Traveling alone, usually on horseback, often with no clear idea of where she will spend the night in what is mostly uninhabited wilderness, she covers over a thousand miles, most of it during the winter months. A well-educated woman who had known a comfortable life, she thinks nothing of herding cattle at a hard gallop, falling through ice, getting lost in snowstorms, and living in a cabin where the temperatures are well below zero and her ink freezes even as she writes. She befriends desperados and climbs 14,000 foot mountains, ready for any adventure that allows her to see the unparalleled beauty of nature. Her rare complaints have more to do with having to ride side-saddle while in town than with the conditions she faces. An awe-inspiring woman, she is also a talented writer who brings to life Colorado of more than one hundred years ago, when today's big cities were only a small collection of frame houses, and while and beautiful areas were still largely untouched. --Erica Bauermeister Product Description In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic account of a truly astounding journey..

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[SW: women writers, north america, old west, travel, travelogues,]

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HEHNER, Barbara: ICE AGE MAMMOTH: Will This Ancient Giant Come Back to Life? Crown Publishers 2001 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0375813276
0375813276 NEW BOOK Mark Hallett

CONDITION: NEW 2001 Crown Publishers large hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket) [12.3 x 9.3 x 0.3 (30+ pages)]. Tiny shelfwear. Beautiful and detailed color illustrations by Hallett. CONTENT: Beginning with the magnificent find in 1997 of the Jarkov Mammoth frozen into the Siberian permafrost, Hehner presents what is positively known about such Ice Age creatures and what is surmised by studies of their modern-day cousins, the elephants. She covers physiology, diet, habitat, behavior, and the possible reasons for their extinction, as well as mammoth evolution, the causes of ice ages, the use of "land bridges" in prehistoric migrations, and the relationship between the mammoth and prehistoric man. The author discusses the possibility of cloning a mammoth should the Jarkov find provide usable DNA or even undamaged frozen sperm. She also covers the initial step in the creation of a modern-day Pleistocene Park-a 62-square-mile area in Siberia that has been set aside to reproduce a prehistoric landscape with Ice Age mammals or their closest modern-day kin. The brief, readable text is larded with information boxes, maps, and color photos. Unfortunately, the material included on the Jarkov Mammoth is minimal, as scientists are thawing the great beast at a slow rate, and it will be some time before their findings are evaluated, written up, and made public. The whole is enriched by Hallett's dramatic paintings, presenting Pleistocene landscapes and their inhabitants in great detail. Slim, colorful, and informative. Quese tions welcome/scan on request. First Edition, First Printing New (Brodart) Hard Cover (Pictorial Boards) 12.3 x 9.3 x 0.3 (30+ pages) Children's Books: Science; First Edition, First Printing

[SW: 0375813276, ICE AGE MAMMOTH: Will This Ancient Giant Come Back to Life? , Barbara Hehner, Mark Hallett, Elephants, Cloning, Children's Science, Children's History, children's Books, prehistoric Life, Siberia,Woolly Mammoth,]

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Boyle, Harry J. Homebrew and Patches, Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited 1963 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed.
Fair

BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Book Pocket, Jacket Cover; Corners, Spine Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. WITH A FOREWORD BY: Harry Halliwell. CONTENTS: 1 The Bad Old Days 2 Romance of Railroads 3 The Chilling Time 4 Winter and Appetites 5 Tinkering and Saving 6 Catalogues 7 Spring and the bride Hunters 8 Growing Up 9 The Instruction 10 Age of Rebellion 11 The Good Samaritans 12 School Daze 13 Adolescence and High Schools 14 The Social Graces 15 Bitter-sweet Memories 16 Elections 17 The Unchangeables 18 Epidemics and Patent Medicines 19 The Mechanical Age 20 Impressions 21 Food for Free 22 Auctions 23 General Merchant 24 Memories of Mother 25 They Were All Equal 26 Christmas Harmony. SYNOPSIS: Harry Boyle's first book, Mostly in Clover, was a sensitive portrait of a young boy growing up in rural Ontario during the 1920's. Homebrew and Patches follows the same boy as he moves from the farm to the comparative sophistication of the continuation school in the nearby small town. For the boy, the growing-up process was complicated by the Great Depression which brought the "Hungry Thirties" to the farming communities. Hence the title; for times were so bad on the farm that "making do" was cultivated to a fine art and materials were so scarce that "there were even patches on patches." But looking back on those years, and trying to explain to his readers what life was really like in the bad, old days, Mr. Boyle comes to the conclusion that the misery of the Hungry Thirties was very much mitigated by the amusing incidents which brightened life on the family farm. For even during the Depression there were always diversions for a country boy. Mr. Boyle recounts the mysteries of an ice-harvest, the questionable delights of experiments with tobacco, a boy's first shave, and the proposed fund-raising oyster supper which no one knew how to prepare. The new department-store catalogue - one of the family's favourite diversions - was a source of wistful dreams for the entire family. Mr. Boyle's account of the subterfuge employed by the family to buy Mother an Easter hat is touching and funny, even while it underlines the seriousness of the Depression and the hardships that it caused. For all that Mr. Boyle writes about the Hungry Thirties, he does not limit his book to the trials of "making do." His abiding interest is people; and he has a special tender affection and amused understanding for his central figure, the boy he was thirty years ago. For that boy, growing-up was a process so engrossing that it sometimes overshadowed the difficulties of the Thirties. Young Harry's first date, first dance and his first great love affair - with the high school art teacher - were such momentous milestones in the adolescent's life that the Depression momentarily took second place to them in importance. Such incidents, when seen in their proper perspective, lend themselves to deliciously funny exploitation, and in Homebrew and Patches Mr. Boyle exploits them to the fullest extent. First Edition 2nd Printing Fair Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library; First Edition 2nd Printing

[SW: Biography]

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Quirk, Lawrence J. The Films of Joan Crawford, New York Cadillac Pub 1968
Very Good Plus

-----Black cloth with gilt, 222 pages, minor shelf wear, small swath of white out on inside front board top edge. Contents include: Joan Crawford: The Actress and the Woman / Pretty ladies / Old Clothes / The Only Thing / Sally, Irene and Mary / The Boob / Tramp, Tramp, Tramp / Paris / The Taxi Dancer / Winners of the Wilderness / The Understanding Heart / The Unknown / Twelve Miles Out / Spring Fever / West Point / Rose-Marie / Across to Singapore / The Law of the Range / Four Walls / Our Dancing Daughters / Dream of Love / The Duke Steps Out / Hollywood Revue of 1929 / Our Modern Maidens / Untamed / Montana Moon / Our Blushing Brides / Paid / Dance, Fools, Dance / Laughing Sinners / This Modern Age / Possessed / Grand Hotel / Letty Lynton / Rain / Today We Live / Dancing Lady / Sadie McKee / Chained / Forsaking All Others / No More Ladies / I Live My Life / The Gorgeous Hussy / Love on the Run / The Last of Mrs. Cheyney / The Bride Wore Red / Mannequin / The Shining Hour / The Ice Follies of 1939 / The Women / Strange Cargo / Susan and God / A Woman's Face / When Ladies Meet / They All Kised the Bride / Reunion in France / Above Suspicion / Hollywood Canteen / Mildred Pierce / Humoresque / Possessed / Daisy Kenyon / Flamingo Road / It's a Great Feeling / The Damned Don't Cry / Harriet Craig / Goodbye My Fancy / This Woman Is Dangerous / Sudden Fear / Torch Song / Johnny Guitar / Female on the Beach / Queen Bee / Autumn Leaves / The Story of Esther Costello / The Best of Everything / What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? / The Caretakers / Strait Jacket / I Saw What You did / Berserk. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo 1st Edition 1st Printing No Jacket Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12"

[SW: Quirk, Lawrence J., The Films of Joan Crawford . -----Black cloth with gilt, 222 pages, minor shelf wear, small swath of white out on inside front board top edge. Contents include: Joan Crawford: The Actress and the Woman / Pretty ladies / Old Clothes / The Only Thing / Sally, Irene and Mary / The Boob / Tramp, Tramp, Tramp / Paris / The Taxi Dancer / Winners of the Wilderness / The Understanding Heart / The Unknown / Twelve Miles Out / Spring Fever / West Point / Rose-Marie / Across to Singapore / The Law of the Range / Four Walls / Our Dancing Daughters / Dream of Love / The Duke Steps Out / Hollywood Revue of 1929 / Our Modern Maidens / Untamed / Montana Moon / Our Blushing Brides / Paid / Dance, Fools, Dance / Laughing Sinners / This Modern Age / Possessed / Grand Hotel / Letty Lynton / Rain / Today We Live / Dancing Lady / Sadie McKee / Chained / Forsaking All Others / No More Ladies / I Live My Life / The Gorgeous Hussy / Love on the Run / The Last of Mrs. Cheyney / The Bride Wore Red / Mannequin / The Shining Hour / The Ice Follies of 1939 / The Women / Strange Cargo / Susan and God / A Woman's Face / When Ladies Meet / They All Kised the Bride / Reunion in France / Above Suspicion / Hollywood Canteen / Mildred Pierce / Humoresque / Possessed / Daisy Kenyon / Flamingo Road / It's a Great Feeling / The Damned Don't Cry / Harriet Craig / Goodbye My Fancy / This Woman Is Dangerous / Sudden Fear / Torch Song / Johnny Guitar / Female on the Beach / Queen Bee / Autumn Leaves / The Story of Esther Costello / The Best of Everything / What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? / The Caretakers / Strait Jacket / I Saw What You did / Berserk.Biographies]

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