Meet George Washington - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meet George Washington write by Joan Heilbroner. This book was released on 2001-01-02. Meet George Washington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George Washington grew up in the English colony of Virginia. He was tall and strong, fair in judgment, and respected by his friends as a good leader. As he grew older, George saw how England took advantage of the American colonies—and he didn't like it. When the colonies declared their independence, George was chosen to lead their army as its general. And when the colonies won their freedom, George was elected to lead the new nation as its first president.
Landmarks
Landmarks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landmarks write by Robert Macfarlane. This book was released on 2015-03-05. Landmarks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS 'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent 'Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place' Financial Times 'A book that ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over' Guardian 'Gorgeous, thoughtful and lyrical' Independent on Sunday 'Feels as if [it] somehow grew out of the land itself. A delight' Sunday Times Discover Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it.
The Landmark Thucydides
The Landmark Thucydides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Landmark Thucydides write by Thucydides. This book was released on 2008-04. The Landmark Thucydides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Dolly Madison
Dolly Madison - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dolly Madison write by Jane Rothschild Mayer. This book was released on 1954. Dolly Madison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Dolly Madison is the story of one of the most charming and beloved of American women.
Prehistoric America
Prehistoric America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prehistoric America write by Miles Barton. This book was released on 2002. Prehistoric America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "From the icy Arctic vastness to the steamy tropical swamps of Florida, people came upon a teeming variety of animals in North America after the Ice Age. The book travels the continent region by region, introducing fascinating and bizarre beasts including ground sloths, glyptodonts, mastodons, mammoths, saber-toothed and scimitar-toothed cats, and the short-faced bear. Alongside these now-extinct animals were lions, cheetahs, zebras, and camels - animals that have long since disappeared from their North American homes - as well as species still seen today, such as caribou, grizzlies, eagles, salmon, bison, coyotes, prairie dogs, condors, alligators, and jaguars." "A wealth of fossil evidence informs the stunning computer-generated panoramas that fill the pages of the volume. Bones of the ancient beasts again have flesh and fur, unfamiliar animals again roam the landscapes, and the world of prehistoric North America comes startlingly to life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
