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During a raging Arctic blizzard, Granite helps Susan and the rest of the dogs brave the storm and win the Iditarod.
Author : Susan Butcher
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0975402900
During a raging Arctic blizzard, Granite helps Susan and the rest of the dogs brave the storm and win the Iditarod.
Author : Jean Louis Vigneresse
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781862390584
Author : Nathan / Karl Smith
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2016-08-20
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ISBN : 9780975529935
Author : Stuart MacBride
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312940591
DCI Logan McRae returns to his job in Aberdeen CID after recuperating from a stab wound and finds himself assigned to a brutal serial killer case. Martin's Press.
Author : Dorothy Carrington
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0141918195
'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. GRANITE ISLAND, much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably vivid and delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality and poetry.
Author : W.S. Pitcher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401158320
The origin of granite has for long fascinated geologists though serious debate on the topic may be said to date from a famous meeting of the Geological Society of France in 1847. My own introduction to the subject began exactly one hundred years later when, in an interview with Profes sor H. H. Read, I entered his study as an amateur fossil collector and left it as a committed granite petrologist - after just ten minutes! I can hardly aspire to convert my reader in so dramatic a way, yet this book is an attempt, however inadequate, to pass on the enthusiasm that I inherited, and which has been reinforced by innumerable discussions on the outcrop with granitologists of many nationalities and of many shades of opinion. Since the 1960s, interest in granites has been greatly stimulated by the thesis that granites image their source rocks in the inaccessible deep crust, and that their diversity is the result of varying global tectonic context. So great a body of new data and new ideas has accumulated that my attempt to review the whole field of granite studies must carry with it a possible charge of arrogance, especially as I have adopted the teaching device of presenting the material from a personal point of view with its thinly disguised prejudices.
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Page : 614 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Brendan McDonough
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316308153
The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona. Their leader, Eric Marsh, was in a desperate crunch after four hotshots left the unit, and perhaps seeing a glimmer of promise in the skinny would-be recruit, he took a chance on the unlikely McDonough, and the chance paid off. Despite the crew's skepticism, and thanks in large part to Marsh's firm but loving encouragement, McDonough unlocked a latent drive and dedication, going on to successfully battle a number of blazes and eventually win the confidence of the men he came to call his brothers. Then, on June 30, 2013, while McDonough--"Donut" as he'd been dubbed by his team--served as lookout, they confronted a freak, 3,000-degree inferno in nearby Yarnell, Arizona. The relentless firestorm ultimately trapped his hotshot brothers, tragically killing all 19 of them within minutes. Nationwide, it was the greatest loss of firefighter lives since the 9/11 attacks. Granite Mountain is a gripping memoir that traces McDonough's story of finding his way out of the dead end of drugs, finding his purpose among the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and the minute-by-minute account of the fateful day he lost the very men who had saved him. A harrowing and redemptive tale of resilience in the face of tragedy, Granite Mountain is also a powerful reminder of the heroism of the people who put themselves in harm's way to protect us every day.
Author : James Barclay
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473202450
The world has become a battleground in a war which no side is winning. But for those determined to retain power, the prolonged stalemate cannot be tolerated so desperate measures must be taken. Max Halloran has no idea. He's living the brief and glorious life of a hunter-killer pilot. He's an ace in the air, on his way up through the ranks, in love, and with his family's every need provided for in thanks for his service, Max has everything . . . . . . right up until he hears something he shouldn't have, and refuses to let it go. Suddenly he's risking his life and the lives of all those he cares about for a secret which could expose corruption at the highest levels, and change the course of the war. One man, one brief conversation . . . a whole world of trouble . . .
Author : John Rozier
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820310428
Gathers letters between Edgeworth Byrd, a Confederate soldier, planter, and slave owner, and his wife and daughter