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This first novel introduces Ossie, the runt of a litter of swamp rats who survives a snake attack and is adopted by the legendary crocodile, Uncle Will, who teaches him about their swamp world.
Author : Carter Crocker
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780756956905
This first novel introduces Ossie, the runt of a litter of swamp rats who survives a snake attack and is adopted by the legendary crocodile, Uncle Will, who teaches him about their swamp world.
Author : Theodore G. Manno
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1496811976
Theodore G. Manno traces the history of nutria from their natural range in South America to their status as an invasive species known for destroying the environmentally and economically important wetlands along the Gulf Coast. In this definitive book on “swamp rats,” Manno vividly recounts western expansion and the explosion of the American fur industry. Then he details an apocalyptic turn—to replace an overhunted beaver population in North America, humans introduced nutria. With an eclectic repertoire of true stories that read like fiction and are played out by larger-than-life characters, Manno conveys the legend of empire-seeking fur trappers, the bizarre miscommunications that led to nutria releases, and the sadness that comes with killing millions of nutria whose ancestors were never meant to leave their South American habitat. He tells of disastrous interactions among hungry nutria, storm surges from Hurricane Katrina, and major oil spills. His extensively researched and epic narrative, accompanied by more than thirty photographs and entertaining interviews with biologists, historians, fashion designers, and chefs, weaves a poignant tale of empire, conquest, fortune, and even Tabasco Sauce. Manno provides a full overview of what is currently known about nutria—a species now aggressively hunted with a bounty program because of their reputation for wetland destruction.
Author : Carter Crocker
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399239649
This first novel introduces Ossie, the runt of a litter of swamp rats who survives a snake attack and is adopted by the legendary crocodile, Uncle Will, who teaches him about their swamp world.
Author : Carter Crocker
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399239649
This first novel introduces Ossie, the runt of a litter of swamp rats who survives a snake attack and is adopted by the legendary crocodile, Uncle Will, who teaches him about their swamp world.
Author : Chris Cawood
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780964223165
Author : Ryan Ferrier
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
"Dragons. Monsters. Tricksters. The Rat Queens have seen—and slayed!—it all. But when a dying man of great wealth hires our heroes to exact revenge for the murder of his prized unicorn, Betty, Hannah, Braga, Violet, and Dee are suddenly thrust into a quest that may bring them face-to-face with a mythological creature thought only to exist in bedtime stories. This is Palisade’s urban legend, and it will end with either death or a mass fortune. Featuring the all-new RAT QUEENS creative team, RYAN FERRIER (Death Orb, Criminy) and PRISCILLA PETRAITES (Brilliant Trash)—who will be taking the reins of the ongoing title starting with issue #16!"
Author : Carter Crocker
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781417705269
Guided by an ancient alligator, a silent young rat learns to find his own way in the drought-stricken swamp, despite having been orphaned under circumstances that sometimes cause other animals to reject him.
Author : Kristyn Crow
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060839511
Splish splash rumba-rumba bim bam boom! It's bedtime at the swamp—except somebody's not ready. Somebody's still splashing in the water and the mud. Is there a monster on the loose? Kristyn Crow has taken every child's worst nightmare and transformed it into a frolic through swampland. With funny illustrations and a catchy refrain, this story won't scare little monster too much before bedtime.
Author : Armond Muscat
Publisher : Armond Muscat
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0615535860
About, Swamps are nature’s way to remove waste and clean our waterways. When swamps get bogged down with waste, they become stagnated and turn into bogs. Just like the House of Congress and Senate designed to protect Americans. They are Americas bog with greed, corruption, lies, and the most of all selfishness. Today’s Democratic leadership refuses to work with the President and the American people who elected him. The only reason for this insanity is just pure selfishness. Just like a two-year-old child, that cries and schemes to get their way.
Author : Macon Fry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496833090
They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shantyboats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana’s most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.