To Tame a Land
Title | To Tame a Land PDF eBook |
Author | Louis L'Amour |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2005-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0553900064 |
Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave his new home. He rides lonely mountain passes and works on dusty cattle drives until he finds a job breaking horses. Then he meets Liza Hetrick, and in her eyes he sees his future. After establishing himself as marshal of Alta, he returns, only to discover that Liza has been kidnapped. Tracking her to Robbers’ Roost, Rye is forced to face the man who taught him all he knows about books, guns, and friendship. Two old friends—one woman: Who will walk away?
Taming the Great South Land
Title | Taming the Great South Land PDF eBook |
Author | William J Lines |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780520078307 |
Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect. Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect.
Taming the Landmine
Title | Taming the Landmine PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Stiff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1986-01 |
Genre | Armored vehicles, Military |
ISBN | 9780947020040 |
The development of the landmine as a tactical weapon, combined with the efforts made to combat its devastating effects, is followed in this title.
Taming the Land
Title | Taming the Land PDF eBook |
Author | Harcourt School Publishers Staff |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780153195280 |
Taming the Land
Title | Taming the Land PDF eBook |
Author | VeraLee Wiggins |
Publisher | Barbour Publishing |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781557487742 |
Teenager David Moreland, having just settled in Oregon's Walla Walla Valley is concerned about the approaching winter since his father's health is in question and his friend is suddenly orphaned. His family's faith in God lends them the strength they need to survive.
Taming the Land
Title | Taming the Land PDF eBook |
Author | HSP |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780153233265 |
Taming the Land, Grade 5 Take-Home Book
Title | Taming the Land, Grade 5 Take-Home Book PDF eBook |
Author | Hsp |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780153197178 |