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A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Joel Greenberg · Bloomsbury
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
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In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other... |
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The phantom punch : the story behind boxing's most controversial bout
Robert Sneddon · Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
Pages: 231
Format: Print book
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The two bouts between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston are widely considered the most anticipated and controversial fights in heavyweight boxing. Cassius Clay won the first bout in Miami Beach in February 1964, when Liston refused to come out for the seventh round. The second fight took place... |
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Best Easy Day Hikes Portland, Maine
Greg Westrich · Falcon Guides
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
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Featuring a range of hikes covering the coastal and inland areas within an hour's drive of Portland, Maine, Best Easy Day Hikes Portland, Maine is an essential hiking companion. Whether you prefer long or short hikes, populated areas or quiet woods, you'll have plenty of options,... |
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Unstoppable: My Life So Far
Maria/ Cohen Rich Sharapova · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, the candid, captivating story of her rise to tennis stardomIn the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no one is expecting... |
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A Fly Rod of Your Own
John Gierach · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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John Gierach, "the voice of the common angler" (The Wall Street Journal) and member of the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame, brings his sharp sense of humor and keen eye for observation to the fishing life and, for that matter, life in general.John Gierach is known for his witty, trenchant... |
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Ballplayer
Chipper Jones · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones - one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history - shares his remarkable story, while capturing the magic nostalgia that sets baseball apart from every other sport. Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star who amassed Hall of Fame-worthy... |
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A Woman's Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers
HANNAH KIMBERLEY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes... |
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Microadventures : local discoveries for great escapes
Alastair Humphreys · William Collins
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' GeographicalAdventure - something that's new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.So what's a microadventure? It's close... |
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Hiking Waterfalls in New England: A Guide to the Region's Best Waterfall Hikes
Eli Burakian · Falcon Guides; 1st Edition edition
Format: Book
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Hiking Waterfalls in New England includes detailed hike descriptions, maps, and color photos for approximately 100 of the most scenic waterfall hikes in the area. Hike descriptions also include history, local trivia, and GPS coordinates.Hiking Waterfalls in New England will take you through... |
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Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea
Nic Compton · Adlard Coles
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds--and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered... |
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Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save their Animals?And an Ancient Way of Life
MICHAEL BENANEV · Pegasus Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous work of literary journalism that follows a nomadic family's fraught migration to the high Himalayan plains, as a changing world closes in around them.Following his vivid account of traveling with one of the last camel caravans on earth in Men of Salt, Michael Benanav now brings... |
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Dust Bowl Girls: A Team's Quest for Basketball Glory
Lydia Reeder · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance... |
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