Beyond My Doorstep
Author : Helen Easton Bliss
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Page : 61 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 1978-06
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ISBN : 9780533027552
Author : Helen Easton Bliss
Publisher :
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 1978-06
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ISBN : 9780533027552
Author : Hal Borland
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1453232370
The inspiring classic on the virtues of embracing the great outdoors from the national bestselling author of The Dog Who Came to Stay. Over the course of his career, Hal Borland wrote eight nature books and hundreds of “outdoor editorials” for the Sunday New York Times, extolling the virtues of the countryside. From his home on one hundred acres in rural Connecticut, Borland wrote of the natural wonders, both big and small, that surrounded him every day. Beyond Your Doorstep is his guide to venturing into the outdoors around your home, wherever it is, and discovering the countryside within reach. The beauty to be found in roadsides, meadows, woodlands, and bogs are explored in elegant prose. Borland takes up birds, animals, and plants—both edible and poisonous—and the miraculous ways in which they are threaded together throughout the natural world. Part introductory field guide and part incitement to exploration, Beyond Your Doorstep is a classic of nature writing and a must-read for anyone looking to renew his or her relationship to the outdoors.
Author : Trisha Merry
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Abused children
ISBN : 9781471177071
At eleven o' clock one night in 1997, four hungry, damaged young children arrive on foster carers Trisha and Mike Merry's doorstep. Two social workers dropped them off with nothing but the ragged clothes they were wearing and no information. The children were covered in bruises, two had black eyes, one had a broken arm and they were all scratching themselves. Starved, seriously neglected and abused in every way, four young siblings have been repeatedly overlooked by everyone who should have cared. The eldest scavenges for food by night and is exhausted from trying to protect his sisters, his baby brother and himself from serious parental neglect and the perilous attentions of frequent paedophile visitors. From the start, these four children challenge Trisha and Mike to extremes. Despite all their experience over many years, they wonder if they have met their match. Yet, from that very first night, this couple's unbounded love and care and their unbelievable determination surmount all the obstacles that follow. The shocking truth about the children's home lives is beyond anything Trish and Mike have experienced, yet through their formidable efforts, their unshakeable belief in the children, and their (almost) unfailing sense of humour, they are able to turn around four young lives from tragedy to hope.
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Page : 810 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : J. Maarten Troost
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592408737
Follow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson with J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals. Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir. Headhunters on My Doorstep chronicles Troost’s return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism left him numb to life. Deciding to retrace the path once traveled by the author of Treasure Island, Troost follows Robert Louis Stevenson to the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, Kiribati, and Samoa, tumbling from one comic misadventure to another. Headhunters on My Doorstep is a funny yet poignant account of one man’s journey to find himself that will captivate travel writing aficionados, Robert Louis Stevenson fans, and anyone who has ever lost his way.
Author : Laurel Hughes
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 166429449X
In these days of extreme differences of opinion, what ever happened to the WWJD test? Swamped by divisive culture, those who love God struggle to avoid sinking into polarized social norms. Yet during severe stress we are all susceptible to doing just that. So, too, do we suffer from the spiritual, emotional, interpersonal, and community consequences of missteps that follow. Mercifully, our bodies are designed to excel at overcoming this brand of spiritual distress. New brain science findings are amazingly consistent with the faith lessons we’ve been taught all along. Beyond Divide and the Tools That Get Us There shares this overlapping wisdom, as well as how to use it to benefit ourselves, loved ones, and community alike. If we use the right tool for the right job, remedies for healing hijacked faith can be found right at our fingertips.
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Page : 566 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 1935
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Author : Harriet Ide Eager Davis
Publisher : [New York] : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Fredrik Sjöberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1101870168
A Nature Book of the Year (The Times (UK)) “The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to some extent. Here and there, my story is about something else.” A mesmerizing memoir of extraordinary brilliance by an entomologist, The Fly Trap chronicles Fredrik Sjöberg’s life collecting hoverflies on a remote island in Sweden. Warm and humorous, self-deprecating and contemplative, and a major best seller in its native country, The Fly Trap is a meditation on the unexpected beauty of small things and an exploration of the history of entomology itself. What drives the obsessive curiosity of collectors to catalog their finds? What is the importance of the hoverfly? As confounded by his unusual vocation as anyone, Sjöberg reflects on a range of ideas—the passage of time, art, lost loves—drawing on sources as disparate as D. H. Lawrence and the fascinating and nearly forgotten naturalist René Edmond Malaise. From the wilderness of Kamchatka to the loneliness of the Swedish isle he calls home, Sjöberg revels in the wonder of the natural world and leaves behind a trail of memorable images and stories.
Author : Edward Livermore Burlingame
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 1915
Category : American periodicals
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