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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Description
"Author and photographer Tom Walker recounts the story of Wolf 258, part of a project that has studied wolves in Alaska's Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve for more than two decades. Through the lens of one wolf's life over a six-month journey, Walker examines the broader complexity of the species' struggle to survive and the futility of borders to contain large mammals"--
Author
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
88 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
This book will cover the area from the road leading from Forks, a bustling town lying on a prairie in what is know as the "West End" of Clallam County to La Push at the mouth of the Quillayute River, south to the Queets River where it ventures into the northern edge of the Quinault Indian Indian Reservation. Most particulary the western edge of the Olympic Peninsula that is drained by those rivers known as the Hoh, the Clearwater and the Queets,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Description
"One spring morning, Cam was playing by his house. He watched a trickle of water running through the pine trees. The water splashed and sang in the voice of snow, Come with me. Come with me. I will take you to the sea" --
View more details of this book at www.walkerbooks.com.au.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"America has more than 250,000 rivers, coursing over more than 3 million miles, connecting the disparate regions of the United States. On a map they can look like the veins, arteries, and capillaries of a continent-wide circulatory system, and in a way they are. Over the course of this nation's history rivers have served as integral trade routes, borders, passageways, sewers, and sinks. Over the years, based on our shifting needs and values, we have...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Once upon a time a creek burbled up and tumbled across a prairie valley. It was filled with insects and brook trout that ate them, frogs that chirruped and birds watching for bugs and fish. This is a true story about a man named Mike who went looking for that creek long after it was buried under fields of corn. It is the story of how a creek can be brought back to life, and with it a whole world of nature. In the words of award-winning author Jacqueline...
13) Reclaimers
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Description
"For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington's White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland was unacknowledged within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park. Until people decided to reclaim them. In Reclaimers, Ana Maria Spagna drives an aging Buick up and down the long strip...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
325 pages : map ; 20 cm
Description
"Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. The slave owners could catch her, too. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side. When Lil Mo discovers that his mother is about to be sold and the rest...
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