Product Description: Luke Paul is a wondering cowboy who believes in God. As he travels around the west he encounters many challenges, both physically and spiritually. How he meets and overcomes each challenge is full of action. Many people have given Luke a nick name that suits him well but to find out his monicker you need to read of his exploits! The old west was a land and time of sudden violence and many other situations that a person had to respond to quickly and accordingly...read more

The ghost of Cardinal Smeaton aids Major Gore in a golf match against the champion golfer, Jim Lindsay (view table of contents)

Finding solace in a teenage poetry circle overseen by his former-hippie teacher, twelve-year-old Mark, a child of political active liberal Jewish parents, is introduced to the 1970s counterculture of Zen Buddhism, marijuana, and Carlos Castaneda's writings. Original.

Product Description: Exploring the great wilderness of Alaska's Brooks Range was Robert Marshall's joy and delight during the decade between 1929 and 1939. Marshall traveled this spectacular country, from the Upper Koyukuk drainage to the Arctic Divide, making maps, recording scientific data, and exalting in the beauty of that incredibly pristine landscape...read more

Devoted conservationist, environmentalist, and explorer Robert Marshall (1901-1939) was chief of the Division of Recreation and Lands, U.S. Forest Service, when he died at age thirty-eight. Throughout his short but intense life. Marshall helped catalyze the preservation of millions of wilderness acres in all parts of the U.S., inspired countless wilderness advocates, and was a pioneer in the modern environmental movement: he and seven fellow conservationists founded the Wilderness Society in 1935. First published in 1933, The People's Forests made a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation's forests in the face of generations of devastating practices; its republication now is especially timely. Marshall describes the major values of forests as sources of raw materials, as essential resources for the conservation of soil and water, and as a "precious environment for recreation" and for "the happiness of millions of human beings." He considers the pros and cons of private and public ownership, deciding that public ownership and large-scale public acquisition are vital in order to save the nation's forests, and sets out ways to intelligently plan for and manage public ownership. The last words of this book capture Marshall's philosophy perfectly: "The time has come when we must discard the unsocial view that our woods are the lumbermen's and substitute the broader ideal that every acre of woodland in the country is rightly a part of the people's forests." Douglas Midgett, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa, and Michael Dombeck, former chief of the U.S. Forest Service, enhance the republication of this significant book by providing, respectively, a biographical essay on Robert Marshall and a foreword that discusses current management issues from an ecological and economic perspective. (view table of contents)

A collection of writings by the legendary mountaineer describes his adventures in the Alps, the Himalayas, and other mountain ranges and provides revealing details of what really happened during a controversial 1954 Italian expedition that made the first ascent of K2. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A thorough, fully illustrated handbook offering basic instruction to the novice sailor.

Traces the history of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan and his descendants, describes their military successes, and discusses the Mongol influence on Europe

Recounts the survival of a group of Jewish refugees living in the Lvov Ghetto, relating how they escaped the Nazis by hiding in the city's sewer system

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Product Description: This classic is an original work of literature by one of America's foremost conservationists and is an account of the people of the north, both Native and white, who give Alaska its special human flavor. First published over fifty years ago, the book is still a favorite among old-time Alaskans and, over the years, has prompted numerous readers to pack up and move to Alaska...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)