The Wahoo Bobcat
Title | The Wahoo Bobcat PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wharton Lippincott |
Publisher | HarperCollins Children's Books |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN |
A nine-year-old boy and a wild bobcat establish a strange friendship that endures through seasons of drought, forest fire and flood, and through the resolute hunting of the cat by men and dogs in the Florida swamp.
Wilderness Champion
Title | Wilderness Champion PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wharton Lippincott |
Publisher | McClelland and Stewart |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Dogs |
ISBN | 9780771053115 |
Does a hound's loyalty belong to the wolf that raised him and taught him survival in the wild or to the master who provided him with food, protection, and understanding?
A River Runs through It and Other Stories
Title | A River Runs through It and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Norman MacLean |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2017-05-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 022647223X |
The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation
Brinkerhoff's History of Marion County, Illinois
Title | Brinkerhoff's History of Marion County, Illinois PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. G. Brinkerhoff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 936 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Marion County (Ill.) |
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The Wolf King
Title | The Wolf King PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wharton Lippincott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Wolves |
ISBN |
Skink No Surrender
Title | Skink No Surrender PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Hiaasen |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2014-09-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1780622201 |
A New York Times bestseller and laugh out loud thriller from Carl Hiaasen about a missing cousin, a half-crazy governor, giant gators and justice -- swamp justice, that is. Typical Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard - he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink - he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets and giant gators. Carl Hiaasen first introduced readers to Skink more than 25 years ago in DOUBLE WHAMMY, and he quickly became Hiaasen's most iconic and beloved character, appearing in six novels to date. Both teens and adults will be thrilled to catch sight of the elusive 'governor' as he pursues his own unique brand of swamp justice. With Skink at the wheel, the search for a missing girl is both nail-bitingly tense and laugh-out-loud funny.
Billy and Blaze
Title | Billy and Blaze PDF eBook |
Author | C.W. Anderson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2012-07-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 144246819X |
The first book in the classic, beloved Billy and Blaze series, from renowned author C.W. Anderson. Billy was a little boy who “loved horses more than anything else in the world.” Imagine how happy he was when he got his very own pony for his birthday! From that day on, Billy was seldom seen without his new friend, Blaze. Riding through fields and woods, Billy and Blaze learned to trust and understand one another—and to jump over fences and fallen trees with ease. They were a great team, but were they good enough to win the gleaming silver cup at the Mason Horse Show? This is the first book in the classic Billy and Blaze series. Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and gentle understanding between a boy and his horse.