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Rolf in the Woods (Illustrated)
At sunrise, Quonab climbs the rock above his shelter and sings. Into his life comes Rolf, a boy who needs a home and has much to learn.
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Two Little Savages (Illustrated)
Yan can spend hours at a taxidermist's window, longing to know the names of the birds. Give him a patch of woods, a friend like Sam, and the old woodsman Caleb, and that hunger becomes a life: a teepee to raise, tracks to read, a bow to make, a camp to keep going.
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The Arctic Prairies (Illustrated)
Two thousand miles by canoe, with caribou somewhere ahead. In 1907 Ernest Thompson Seton traveled north with the naturalist Edward A. Preble, following waterways toward Great Slave Lake and the country beyond Aylmer Lake.
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Nick of the Woods
Kentucky, 1782. A party of travelers enters a forest haunted by the name Jibbenainosay. Their guide, Nathan Slaughter, is a Quaker who appears to reject violence; the dangers around him make that conviction increasingly difficult to read. Bird turns a frontier adventure into a story of hidden identity and vengeance.
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The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow
In Pennsylvania, the Revolution has left loyalties divided and old injuries unsettled. The return of a dispossessed family draws love, inheritance and revenge into the same conflict. A mysterious stranger and the outlaw reputation of the Hawks turn a quiet valley into a place where every allegiance has a price.
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Woodcraft (Illustrated)
New York, 1884: a Pennsylvania shoemaker who weighs little more than a hundred pounds writes down how to travel for weeks through the wilderness with twenty-six pounds of duffle. Knapsack, hatchet and knives, the shanty-tent, the camp-fire built as it should be, frogging and camp cookery, a ten days’ tramp alone across Michigan, and the ten-and-a-half-pound cedar canoe — Sears’ book is instruction and story in one.
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The Oregon Trail (Illustrated)
The Great Plains in 1846: emigrant trains, buffalo hunts, trading posts, and weeks in an Oglala camp. Parkman’s first book records a journey into a West still being travelled and contested.
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The Harpe’s Head (Illustrated)
Virginia in the 1790s: a young stranger rides into the settled world of the planter aristocracy, while in the mountains and canebrakes of Kentucky the Harpe brothers make the borderlands a place where no traveller rides safe. Hall sets a romance of planters and pioneers against the darkest legend of the Kentucky frontier.
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Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties (Illustrated)
A bed of balsam boughs, a shelter beneath a fallen tree, a cabin with a wooden latch: Beard begins with what lies close at hand and works towards the construction of a log house. His drawings open roofs to reveal their frames, separate the parts of a fastening, and show how a few tools can be put to work — bark coverings, framed shanties, sod walls, raised camps and log buildings across forty-nine chapters.
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King Solomon’s Mines (Annotated)
A faded map, copied from the hand of a dying traveller, marks a road northward across country from which no man is known to have returned. When Sir Henry Curtis asks Allan Quatermain to guide an expedition in search of a lost brother, the old hunter agrees; with Captain Good and the enigmatic Umbopa they go north — through thirst, battle, kingship, witchcraft and the fatal seduction of buried wealth.
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Bevis (Annotated)
A packing-case becomes the beginning of a project. A brook becomes the Mississippi. Bevis and Mark give the countryside new names, build and equip their craft, and set out for islands whose remoteness grows with every plan.
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Edgar Huntly (Illustrated)
Published in 1799, Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker is one of the formative works of American Gothic fiction.
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Wild Animals I Have Known (Annotated)
Lobo knows where the traps are. Silverspot knows his flock and his country. Raggylug has much to learn, and Molly is determined that he shall live to learn it.
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The Biography of a Grizzly (Annotated)
Wahb begins as a cub beside his mother, learning where to find food and when to take shelter. Alone, he must learn the rest from the country itself. Seasons pass, wounds leave their marks, and the small bear becomes a formidable presence whose strength seems equal to every rival.
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Lives of the Hunted (Annotated)
Two lambs, scarcely born, are already beyond a hunter's reach. A coyote learns from every narrow escape. A small dog discovers what it means to stand his ground.
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Animal Heroes (Annotated)
A gray cat learns the uses of an alley. A pigeon has a continent of dangers between himself and home. A little terrier faces an enemy no sensible measure of size would allow him to challenge.
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Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac (Annotated)
A small bear remembers honey and a familiar voice. Years later, the great bear of Tallac can break ropes, defeat traps, and send mounted men scrambling for safety. His strength has grown with his knowledge of the mountains.
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