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Pageant In The Wilderness The Story Of The Escalante Expedition To The Interior Basin, 1776


Free Download Herbert Eugene Bolton, Arlington R Mortensen, "Pageant In The Wilderness: The Story Of The Escalante Expedition To The Interior Basin, 1776"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1258197359, 1258091798 | EPUB | pages: 308 | 3.6 mb
Father Escalante, who was born in Treceno, Cantabria, Spain around 1750, became a Franciscan in the Convento Grande in Mexico City at the age of 17. In 1774, he came to present-day New Mexico in the Mexican province. He was first stationed at Laguna pueblo and then in January 1775 assigned as a minister to the Zuni.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Wilderness Years Collected Works of J. Edward Murr


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English | November 1st, 2022 | ISBN: 0253062675 | 298 pages | True EPUB | 1.46 MB
Abraham Lincoln spent a quarter of his life-from 1816 to 1830, ages 7 to 21-learning and growing in southwestern Indiana. Despite the importance of these formative years, Lincoln rarely discussed this period, and with his sudden, untimely death in 1865, mysterious gaps appear in recorded history.

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Wilderness Skills for Women How to Survive Heartbreak and Other Full-Blown Meltdowns


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English | 2008 | ISBN: 0805446702 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.5 mb
From Moses to Jesus, so many heroes of the Bible had to endure some type of wilderness season in their life, a time of testing that was painful to endure but ultimately brought glory to God.

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Wilderness Dreams The Call of Scotland’s Last Wild Places


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English | 2011 | ISBN: 1903238900 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 6.1 mb
This book has been a long time in the writing. While Mike Cawthorne’s life over the last two decades has been mostly involved in climbing and journalism, he has managed to stow away a large memory bank of experiences of his times spent deep within the wilderness areas of Scotland. These 8 extended essays begin with a canoe trip down the River Dee in 2002 ("Tale of Two Rivers") and his epic round of the Munros in the company of his friend Dave Hughes in 1986 ("Paupers and Kings"). "Terra Ingognita" deals with the Monadliath mountains, ‘one of the last places left on these crowded islands where you can experience genuine solitude’. "Crofting on the Edge" deals with people Mike has encountered who have chosen to live in the most remote and inaccessible areas of Scotland as does "The Hermit’s Story", which describes the life that James McRory-Smith chose to lead in Strathailleach, a shepherd’s cottage near Cape Wrath. "A Last Wild Place" describes the ruination of many of these wilderness areas and the efforts made by large energy companies to exploit these special places. ‘…only wilderness if you can be killed and eaten’ is a quote by American writer Edward Abbey referring to grizzly bears stalking humans in the Rockies. Mike recalls this in "Dying for Trees" as he spends a day on Creag Meagaidh with a deer-stalking party where a minor bio-diversity miracle has taken place by carefully controlling deer numbers to allow the spread of broadleaf woodland. "Scotland’s Alaska" is the final essay on Sutherland’s flow country…’the best and worst of wild Britain.’

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Civilizing the Wilderness Culture and Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada and Rupert’s Land


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English | 2012 | ISBN: 0888645465 | PDF | pages: 473 | 10.5 mb
In this collection of essays, A.A. den Otter explores the meaning of the concepts "civilizing" and "wilderness" within an 1850s Euro-British North American context. At the time, den Otter argues, these concepts meant something quite different than they do today. Through careful readings and researches of a variety of lesser known individuals and events, den Otter teases out the striking dichotomy between "civilizing" and "wilderness," leading readers to a new understanding of the relationship between newcomers and Native peoples, and the very lands they inhabited. Historians and non-specialists with an interest in western Canadian native, settler, and environmental-economic history will be deeply rewarded by reading Civilizing the Wilderness.

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Ice Rivers A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity [Audiobook]


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English | September 07, 2021 | ASIN: B09BBW8F1S | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 28m | 472 MB
Author and Narrator: Jemma Wadham
This audiobook narrated by Jemma Wadham gives a passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers – and what their fate means for our shared future.

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The Wilderness Family At Home With Africa’s Wildlife


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English | 2002 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 055381334X | EPUB | 2,1 mb
When Kobie Krüger, her game-ranger husband and their three young daughters moved to one of the most isolated corners of the world – a remote ranger station in the Mahlangeni region of South Africa’s vast Kruger National Park – she might have worried that she would become engulfed with loneliness and boredom. Yet, for Kobie and her family, the seventeen years spent in this spectacularly beautiful park proved to be the most magical – and occasionally the most hair-raising – of their lives.

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