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What's so lucky about a three-legged dog?
Author : Dianne Maycock
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
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ISBN : 9781417789504
What's so lucky about a three-legged dog?
Author : Dianne Maycock
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 155469664X
The year is 1935 and Maggie Sullivan's world has fallen apart. Maggie has grown up in a close-knit mining community perched atop a mountain in British Columbia. But now her father has been killed in a mine explosion and she is being forced to leave the only home she has ever known. To make matters worse, she must also leave behind her best friend Lucky, the three-legged dog that was a special gift from Pa.
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : California
ISBN : 9780099409823
When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family`s antiques store in Los Angeles' Chinatown. There, her grandmother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colourful stories about their family`s past - stories of missionaries, concubines, tong wars, glamorous nightclubs, and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination. They spoke of how Lisa`s great-great-grandfather emigrated from his Chinese village to the United States, and how his son followed him. As an adult, See spent fives years collecting the details of her family`s remarkable history. She interviewd nearly one hundred relatives and pored over documents at the National Archives, the immigration office, and in countless attics, basements, and closets for the initmate nuances of her ancestors` lives. The result is a vivid, sweeping family portriat that is att once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America - and of America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles its immigrants like no other culture in the world.
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Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Geology
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Author : Ontario. Department of Agriculture
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Page : 850 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 1918
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Geology
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Author : J. B. Reid
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
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Page : 678 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Ontario
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Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Cattle
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Author : Lincoln Hall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440630917
Lincoln Hall's breathtaking account of surviving a night in Everest's "death zone." Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May 25, 2006, he died on Everest. Indeed, Hall attempted to climb the mountain during a deadly season in which eleven people perished. And he was, in fact, pronounced dead, after collapsing from altitude sickness. Two Sherpas spent hours trying to revive him, but as darkness fell, word came via radio from the expedition's leader that they should descend in order to save themselves. The news of Hall's death traveled rapidly from mountaineering websites to news media around the world, and ultimately to his family back in Australia. Early the next morning, however, an American guide, climbing with two clients and a Sherpa, was startled to find Hall sitting cross-legged on a sharp crest of the summit ridge. In this page-turning account of survival against all odds, Hall chronicles in fascinating detail the days and nights that led up to his fateful night in Mount Everest's "death zone." His story is all the more miraculous given his climbing history. Hall had been part of Australia's first attempt to reach the top of Everest in 1984 but had not done any major climbing for many years, having set aside his passion in order to support his family. While others in the team achieved their dream during this 1984 expedition, Hall was forced to turn back due to illness. Thus, his triumph in reaching the summit at the age of fifty is a story unto itself. So, too, is Hall's description of his family's experience back in Australia, as sudden grief turned to relief and joy in a matter of hours. Rarely has there been such a thrilling narrative of one man's encounter with the world's tallest mountain.