Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods
Title | Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Rowlands |
Publisher | The Countryman Press |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 2017-04-11 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1581574924 |
The classic chronicle of life and self-reliance in the great Northern Forest, reissued for its many fans “Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons—a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys the work-a-day joys and exertions of life in the wilderness, the woodscraft techniques it illustrates, and the slow and pleasurable way in which the soul of a serene man is revealed.” —The New York Times Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days, he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams," which he named Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer?timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without. This is his story, containing both folklore and philosophy, with wisdom about the woods and the demand therein for inventiveness. It includes directions for making moccasins, stoves, shelters, outdoor ovens, canoes, and hundreds of other ingenious and useful gadgets.
Cache Lake Country
Title | Cache Lake Country PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Rowlands |
Publisher | New York : W.W. Norton |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Camping |
ISBN |
Includes information on equipment and methods of travel.
At Home in the Woods
Title | At Home in the Woods PDF eBook |
Author | Bradford Angier |
Publisher | Down East Books |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2015-05-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1608934438 |
One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization. His philosophy has become part of our American heritage, as sound today as the day he first set it down. But his advice on the simple life has seemed too rugged for later generations, brought up in cities, pampered with conveniences and scared of nature. Vena and Brad Angier were fed up with their city bound existence and longtime readers and admirers of Thoreau, they set out to see if his discoveries were valid today. This is the account of two wilderness-loving tenderfeet, who headed for the tall timber on the banks of the Peace River, British Columbia. There near the trading post of Hudson Hope they found their Walden. How they made themselves ‘At Home in the Woods,’ stocked their cabin, met their interesting wilderness neighbors who helped them get settled and who saw them through their first winter makes honest and exciting reading. The city-bred Angiers found out that Thoreau was right when he wrote: “What people say you can not do, you try and find you can.”
Goodbye Beaver Lake
Title | Goodbye Beaver Lake PDF eBook |
Author | Irwin Wolfe |
Publisher | Goodbye Beaver Lake |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2001-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781931207447 |
Separatist madness engulfs Quebec in this saga of a society torn asunder by French-Canadian nationalists hellbent on Quebec's secession from Canada. It might be described as a historical/political metaphor, a cautionary tale, recounting some of the momentous events which have occurred in the Province of Quebec between the late 50s and present day. The story also dips back into the 30s and 40s.
North Country Cache
Title | North Country Cache PDF eBook |
Author | Joan H. Young |
Publisher | Shark Enterprises |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780976543213 |
Groom Lake
Title | Groom Lake PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan O |
Publisher | MOBO Media |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Groom Lake (Nev.) |
ISBN | 9780615200996 |
Groom Lake is not just a novel; the narrative is a briefing on America''s black budget programs and practices that originated at Area 51 in Nevada. The story gives a historical account of "shadow government" activities, methods and reasoning, intertwined with a fast-paced plot where intelligence agents guard their fringe programs from inquisitive civilians, China''s Ministry of State Security and a congressional task force investigating black budget spending.
The Jungle South of the Mountain
Title | The Jungle South of the Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Westoll |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2016-08-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1443441872 |
In an unnamed country on the northern coast of South America, a scientist named Stanley is deeply embedded in the life of the rainforest. He’s been studying a troop of capuchin monkeys for eight years—seven since his wife, Maria, left him, and their mentor, Professor Collymore, mysteriously disappeared. The country is preparing for a hotly contested election, which promises to unleash ancient tensions among the populace. Stanley, however, is oblivious to this, focused only on his research and his conviction that Maria will one day come back to him. But then his research is violently threatened: one of his beloved monkeys goes missing, and then another. Something is killing them, one by one. Stanley decides to take matters into his own hands, but soon learns that there are forces in the jungle as difficult to quell as the spirit of rebellion brewing in the south. Soon, Stanley finds everything he holds dear—his livelihood, his monkeys, his very life—in danger. The Jungle South of the Mountain is a chilling, visceral, brilliantly imagined novel about the stories we believe, the lies we tell and the choices we make to protect what we love.