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Title: Alien in Antarctica

Sub-title: Reflections Upon Forty Years of Exploration & Research on the Frozen Continent

By (author): Charles Swithinbank

ISBN10-13: 0939923432 : 9780939923434

This is an eminent polar scientist's account of six expeditions to the 'frozen continent' while working with the US Antarctic Program. The book combines first-person narrative and outstanding photography to record the events, the feelings, the results, and the memories of conducting research in one of Earth's most remote and hostile environments. This book is not just about science, but about adventures in the pursuit of science.

Pages: 216 Size: 215x280mm Illustrations: colour photos

Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - January 1997

Format: Hardback

Subjects: True stories of heroism, endurance & survival : Antarctica

List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling

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Title: 1 of: 38

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Title: And the Winds Blew Cold
Sub-title: Stalinist Russia As Experienced by an American Emigrant
By (author): Eva Stolar Meltz, Rae Gunter Osgood
ISBN10-13: 0939923858 : 9780939923854
This is the story of Eva Stolar Meltz, a Russian-American woman who emigrated with her family from Chicago, Illinois, in 1931 to the USSR, where for over 40 years she endured life in Communist Russia. This book chronicles a fascinating life that unfolded within tumultuous political, social, and economic circumstances. The perspective of an idealistic young emigrant to the USSR is unusual and provides insight into the Communist movement in Chicago in the 1920s; the preferential treatment emigrants with much-needed skills first received when they arrived in the Soviet Union in the 1930s; the evolution of Communism under Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev; the betrayal by friends during periods of political and social oppression; exile to a collective farm during World War II; the terrifying ordeal of persecution and the brutality of political imprisonment in a labour camp in the 1950s; the difficulty of living day-to-day in a closed society; and the struggle to leave the USSR in the 1970s.
Table of Contents:
The Main Personalities in the Book; Prologue: My Years with Eva; The Early Years in Moscow; The First Wave of Terror; The War Years; The Second Wave of Terror; In the Labour Camps; Freedom; Epilogue; Letters from Eva; Index.
Pages: 486 Size: 160x235mm Illustrations: b/w photos
Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - January 2000
Format: Hardback
Subjects: Autobiography: historical, political & military : Migration, immigration & emigration : Jewish studies : Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
List Price: 33.99 Pounds Sterling
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Title: 2 of: 38

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Title: And the Winds Blew Cold

Sub-title: Stalinist Russia As Experienced by an American Emigrant

By (author): Eva Stolar Meltz, Rae Gunter Osgood

ISBN10-13: 0939923769 : 9780939923762

This is the story of Eva Stolar Meltz, a Russian-American woman who emigrated with her family from Chicago, Illinois, in 1931 to the USSR, where for over 40 years she endured life in Communist Russia. This book chronicles a fascinating life that unfolded within tumultuous political, social, and economic circumstances. The perspective of an idealistic young emigrant to the USSR is unusual and provides insight into the Communist movement in Chicago in the 1920s; the preferential treatment emigrants with much-needed skills first received when they arrived in the Soviet Union in the 1930s; the evolution of Communism under Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev; the betrayal by friends during periods of political and social oppression; exile to a collective farm during World War II; the terrifying ordeal of persecution and the brutality of political imprisonment in a labour camp in the 1950s; the difficulty of living day-to-day in a closed society; and the struggle to leave the USSR in the 1970s.

Pages: 486 Size: 155x230mm Illustrations: b/w photos

Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - January 2000

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Autobiography: historical, political & military : Migration, immigration & emigration : Jewish studies : Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)

List Price: 23.99 Pounds Sterling

Availability: In Stock Qty Available: 6

Title: 3 of: 38

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Title: Bird is the Word
Sub-title: An Historical Perspective on the Names of North American Birds
By (author): Gary H Meiter
ISBN10-13: 1935778420 : 9781935778424
Over 900 species of birds are known from North America, an avifauna made up primarily of native year-round residents and seasonal migrants, modestly enhanced by introduced exotics and neighbouring vagrants. BIRD IS THE WORD is an unequalled compilation of the names of almost 800 of those birds and the record of how, when, where, and by whom those names were created and drawn into the history and science of the continents avifauna. The names of record date from the early years of European discovery, exploration, and settlement of Middle and North America through the emergence and evolution of science during the 18th and early 19th centuries, the enhanced purposeful search for and documentation of new species during the 19th century, and the consolidation of the expanded record during the 20th century. Part I of Bird is the Word describes the scope, structure, and content of the book, focusing on an introduction to avian taxonomy, a listing of the avian orders that are represented in North America and its environs, and insights into the different categories or groups of names that are in use throughout the North American orders. Part II, organised by order, family, genus, and species -- and making up most of the book -- is devoted to the names of the individual species and the historical and/or cultural context of those names. Each species is introduced by its common name and Linnaean name and pronunciation, and accompanying information provides historical insight into the discovery and naming of the species, explanations of the Linnaean name, and other names for the species -- French names, Spanish names, British names, Inuit/Eskimo names, and Other, or colloquial, names. A final chapter identifies and describes nine species or subspecies of birds that have become extinct since colonial times. Numerous sidebars are present throughout Part II to expand upon specific matters of interest. Part III of the book includes three appendixes, one providing a list of names for gatherings of different species of birds, a second providing a glossary of words used in the book, and a third that introduces the reader to more than a hundred naturalists and other persons who participated in the search for, finding, recording, naming, describing, or illustrating of birds of record for North America. BIRD IS THE WORD is a rich and readily accessible collection of information about finding and naming the birds of North America. It is much more than a reference book; it is a journey of discovery that will enrich the readers birding experience.
Reviews:
"This is the best book on the subject, a work of scholarship... (and a) most highly recommended resource." -- T Armistead, Choice, 58.9, May 2021
"... on an epic scale ... author Gary H Meiter has created an elegantly presented treatise on bird nomenclature that is the new standard." -- Jim McCormac, The Columbus Dispatch, 5 May 2020
Pages: 438 Size: 280x215mm Illustrations: colour illus
Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - March 2022
Format: Paperback
Subjects: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching
List Price: 40.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability: In Stock Qty Available: 8
Title: 4 of: 38

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Title: Birds of Hocking County, Ohio

By (author): John T Watts, Paul E Knoop, Gary A Coovert

ISBN10-13: 1935778358 : 9781935778356

Hocking County is one of the natural jewels of Ohio, favoured as it is with impressive geological and biological diversity, and it is one of the most sought-out destinations for watching, and studying, the 266 species of bird life that have been recorded in the county. Here, the reader is introduced to the geological and biological history of the region, and to the importance of protecting the habitat, diversity of the county as homes to the diverse bird life -- and other forms of life -- in the county. One chapter identifies and describes twenty of the best birding sites in the county.

Pages: 150 Size: 230x155mm Illustrations: 45 colour illus

Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - July 2016

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching

List Price: 25.99 Pounds Sterling

Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon

Title: 5 of: 38

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Title: Birds of Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, & Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Sub-title: A Field Guide

By (author): Ernest P Edwards

ISBN10-13: 0939923963 : 9780939923960

This is a compact, current, easy-to-use field guide that identifies 336 species of birds that have been reported from in and near the Blue Ridge in North Carolina and Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. The guide applies to one of the most beautiful and biologically rich regions of eastern North America, it includes only those species of birds that will be found in the region, and it can be used with comfort, confidence, and pleasure by casual and beginning observers as well as those with more extensive experience.

Pages: 142 Size: 115x190mm Illustrations: colour illus

Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - April 2006

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Birds (ornithology) : USA

List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling

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Title: 6 of: 38

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Title: Bright Beat the Water

Sub-title: Memories of a Wilderness Artist

By (author): John L Peyton

ISBN10-13: 0939923300 : 9780939923304

John, Peyton, on octogenarian living in Proctor, Minnesota, is well-known throughout the western Great Lakes region as a banker, artist, and award-winning author. Peyton's memoirs, which span most of the twentieth century, begin with his early life in northern Minnesota when Duluth was still a frontier town. He recalls his adventures with the northern Ojibway Indians and time spent hunting and fishing on the rivers of the Northwoods. He describes his years at prep school in New Hampshire, his years at Yale, and banking during the Depression in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Many other experiences of his life in Minnesota, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Arizona -- always told in a gentle, warm and perceptive manner -- also find their way into these memoirs. Peyton's own paintings and illustrations further enrich the description of his life.

Pages: 250 Size: 155x230mm Illustrations: b/w illus

Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - January 1993

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Individual artists, art monographs : Autobiography: arts & entertainment

List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling

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Title: 7 of: 38

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Title: Carousel Keepers

Sub-title: An Oral History of American Carousels

By (author): Carrie Papa

ISBN10-13: 093992367X : 9780939923670

This is a book for all who enjoyed the experiences of watching, hearing, and riding the wooden carousel during the golden age of American amusement history -- and for those who continue to appreciate the carousel, or merry-go-round, as a very special element of the American cultural landscape. This book contains 107 black-and-white photographs and printed images. Carrie Papa invited thirty-seven 'insiders' -- people who lived behind the lights, music, magic, and fantasy of the antique wooden carousel to reveal the purposes, experiences, memories, and emotions of their involvement with this form of amusement and entertainment. The reader will hear the stories of manufacturers of carousels and the craftsmen who made them, owners and managers of amusement parks, carousel operators and support personnel, riders, and those who have studied, preserved, and revitalised carousels and preserved interest in them. These accounts provide windows onto the everyday life of participants in the industry -- onto the reality behind the nostalgia -- and document an important part of our national amusement heritage.

Pages: 250 Size: 155x230mm Illustrations: b/w photos

Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - January 1998

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Other performing arts : Theme parks & funfairs : USA

List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling

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Title: 8 of: 38

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Title: Chaining Oregon

Sub-title: Surveying the Public Lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851-1855

By (author): Kay Atwood

ISBN10-13: 0939923203 : 9780939923205

This is the first comprehensive history of the early federal surveyors of the Pacific Northwest, the work they performed for the US General Land Office between 1851 and 1855, the contribution their efforts made to the westerly movement of American settlement, and the order they imposed on the land of the western valleys and adjacent mountains in what are now the states of Oregon and Washington. When Oregon Territory's Surveyor General John B Preston and his cadre of engineers arrived in the Oregon region in 1851, there was little precedent for the legal systematic description of private landholding, but when the last of these surveyors left in 1855, much of the western interior valleys of Oregon and Washington territories, from Puget Sound to the Oregon-California border, lay measured in the precise pattern of townships and sections that characterized the US Rectangular Land Survey System. While inescapably having to work and survive within the political and social whorls and eddies of a frontier democracy, the surveyors themselves, traipsing for months at a time across what was to them marginally or completely unsettled land, typically were out of view of the general public - and have frequently remained out of view of historians as well. With this book, Kay Atwood has brought the surveyors, their work, and their legacy out of the shadows of history into the deserved light of scholarship. The book is made up of eleven chapters, along with an Introduction and an Epilogue, notes, a bibliography, period photographs, and historic and contemporary maps. The work is both accessible and substantive; its flowing style will appeal to the general reader while its substance will be valued by historians, surveyors, geographers, archeologists, environmental historians, and others with interests in the people, the processes, and places that make up this work. The historic images provide views of the places that the surveyors worked, the tools that they used, and the maps that they made -- along with the elements of the landscape that they recorded as they went abut their work.

Pages: 264 Size: 155x230mm Illustrations: 56 b/w illus

Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - June 2008

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Geography : Oregon

List Price: 28.99 Pounds Sterling

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Title: 9 of: 38

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Title: Faces in the Firelight

By (author): John L Peyton

ISBN10-13: 093992319X : 9780939923199

This novel chronicles one year in the life of northwoods Native Americans in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Enriched by the author's first hand knowledge, learned while travelling among the Ojibway early in the 20th century, this fictionalised account is a valuable ethnological record incorporating legends and traditional lifeways of the northern Ojibway Indians. The plot centres around a young Ojibway man coming of age in a demanding physical, hence social, environment who, late in the year of this story, becomes badly scarred during a fight with a bear. Years late, Old Mosh, with the disfigured face and mauled leg, served as wilderness guide to the judge, the engineer, the banker, and the banker's teen-aged son -- John Peyton.

Pages: 267 Size: 155x230mm Illustrations: b/w illus

Published: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US) - January 1992

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Indigenous peoples : North America

List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling

Availability: In Stock Qty Available: 12

Title: 10 of: 38