Wild Country

Author: Anne Bishop
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0399587292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this New York Times bestselling powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side...without destroying one another. There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others. One of those places is Bennett, a town at the northern end of the Elder Hills—a town surrounded by the wild country. Now efforts are being made to resettle Bennett as a community where humans and Others live and work together. A young female police officer has been hired as the deputy to a Wolfgard sheriff. A deadly type of Other wants to run a human-style saloon. And a couple with four foster children—one of whom is a blood prophet—hope to find acceptance. But as they reopen the stores and the professional offices and start to make lives for themselves, the town of Bennett attracts the attention of other humans looking for profit. And the arrival of the outlaw Blackstone Clan will either unite Others and humans...or bury them all.

Wild Country

Author: John Killdeer
Publisher: Domain
ISBN: 9780553288858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
In the years of the Lewis and Clark expedition, nineteen-year-old Clive Bennett, mistakenly believing he has killed his own father, flees home and hearth and begins life as a mountain man in the rugged west. Original.

Wild Country

Author: Mark Vallance
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN: 1910240826
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Shortlisted: 2016 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature '[Wild Country] chronicles not just the mountains [Mark] has climbed, but the part he played in bringing to market a little piece of sporting equipment that revolutionised mountaineering and saved countless lives.' – Sarah Freeman, Yorkshire Post In early 1978, an extraordinary new invention for rock climbers was featured on the BBC television science show Tomorrow's World. It was called the 'Friend', and it not only made the sport safer, it helped push the limits of the possible. The company that made them was called Wild Country, the brainchild of Mark Vallance. Within six months, Vallance was selling Friends in sixteen countries. Wild Country would go on to develop much of the gear that transformed climbing in the 1980s. Mark Vallance's influence on the outdoor world extends far beyond the company he founded. He owned and opened the influential retailer Outside in the Peak District and was part of the team that built The Foundry, Sheffield's premier climbing wall – the first modern climbing gym in Britain. He worked for the Peak District National Park and served on its board. He even found time to climb 8,000-metre peaks and the Nose on El Capitan. Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in his mid fifties and robbed of his plans for retirement, Vallance found a new sense of purpose as a reforming president of the British Mountaineering Council. In Wild Country, Vallance traces his story, from childhood influences like Robin Hodgkin and Sir Jack Longland, to two years in Antarctica, where he was base commander of the UK's largest and most southerly scientific station at Halley Bay, before his fateful meeting with Ray Jardine, the man who invented Friends, in Yosemite. Trenchant, provocative and challenging, Wild Country is a remarkable personal story and a fresh perspective on the role of the outdoors in British life and the development of climbing in its most revolutionary phase.

Wild Country Level 3

Author: Margaret Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521713676
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
Tess and Grant are two tour leaders for a walking holiday in France and need to work together. But they don't get on well with each other - at least at the start.

Wild Country

Author: David L. Harrison
Publisher: Wordsong
ISBN: 9781563977848
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of poems celebrating nature.

Wild Country

Author: Dean Ing
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812511710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
The explosive sequel to Single Combat. Ted Quantrill is a human weapon. He has been a soldier, a commando, and a hit man for the U.S. government. Tired of killing, he has turned his back on the past. But assassins can't retire . . . they have to be killed. To preserve his life in the rugged Southwest, Quantrill will have to kill again--and the target is an old friend as well-trained as he is.

Into the Far, Wild Country

Author: George Wythe Baylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
"From 1899 to 1906, Colonel Baylor wrote fifty-two articles for the El Paso Daily Herald. The articles, ably edited and annotated by historian Thompson, vary from accounts of the Civil War in El Paso and the Mesilla Valley, to fights with Comanches in North Texas and Victorio's Apaches in the mountains of Chihuahua. Baylor also recalls the ill-fated 1850-1851 Parker H. French Expedition and life in the California gold fields. Also included are biographical sketches of "Don Santiago" Magoffin and Baylor's controversial older brother, Col. John Robert Baylor." "Some of Baylor's most valuable writings are his Civil War recollections. These include accounts of the surrender of Federal forces at St. Agustin Springs, New Mexico in 1861, the massacre of Lt. Reuben E. Mays and fourteen Confederates deep in the arid expanses of the Big Bend, his service as senior aide to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, the Red River Campaign, and an amazingly objective account of how he came to kill Gen. John A. Wharton at the Fannin Hotel in Houston in April 1865."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Wild Country

Author: Anne Bishop
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399587292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545

Reports from a Wild Country

Author: Deborah Bird Rose
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868407982
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Explores some of Australia's major ethical challenges. Written in the midst of rapid social and environmental change and in a time of uncertainty and division, it offers powerful stories and arguments for ethical choice and commitment. The focus is on reconciliation between Indigenous and 'Settler' peoples, and with nature.

This High, Wild Country

Author: Paul Schullery
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826346030
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
For centuries, the spectacular landscapes now protected in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park have amazed and inspired us. Historian-naturalist Paul Schullery and artist-illustrator Marsha Karle bring us a new and richly textured portrait of this magnificent region and reveal why Waterton-Glacier is a world treasure. Through Schullery's text and Karle's watercolors and drawings, we crisscross the roads and trails of this magnificent wilderness. We learn its deep geological history and encounter its wild residents. And we discover its ever-increasing value as a barometer of planetary health in today's rapidly changing world. Schullery, who has been described as the foremost citizen of the American national parks, and Karle, whose art is informed by a National Park Service career in some of North America's most beautiful landscapes, combine their talents to create a memorable tale of the beauty, power, and peril of this high, wild country.