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 |
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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
Skink--No Surrender
Title | Skink--No Surrender PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Hiaasen |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2014-09-23 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0307974065 |
Richard's cousin is missing, and his best hope of finding her rests with the wily, one-eyed, ex-governor of Florida. Carl Hiaasen introduces his iconic character Skink to a younger audience in this nail-biting adventure! A National Book Award Longlist Selection Classic Malley: her parents are about to ship her off to boarding school, so she takes off with some guy she met online... Poor Richard: he's less of a rebel than Malley, and a lot less trusting. He knows his cousin is 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, this unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets, and giant gators. In Carl Hiaasen's outrageous, hilarious, and wildly dangerous state of Florida, there are a million places an outlaw might stash a teenage girl. A million unpleasant ways to die. And two who will risk everything to rescue a friend . . . and to, hopefully, exact a bit of swamp justice.
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 |
The Phantom Deer
Title | The Phantom Deer PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wharton Lippincott |
Publisher | HarperCollins Children's Books |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Deer |
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The story of a man, a boy and a Key deer--one of the miniature deer whose habitat is disappearing.