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Gardening grief & glory: Ed Lawrence answers your gardening questions
Par Ed Lawrence, Liane E Benoit. 2006
For more than two decades Ed Lawrence has shared his encyclopedic knowledge of the horticultural world with callers to his…
radio show. He’s compiled the best of those queries and answers into a practical, hands-on compendium of horticultural peril and redemption. Explores the tragedy of drought, infestation, wilt and other horticultural hazards and offers practical insights and readily-rendered solutions. Whether your dahlias are drooping, your maples are moping or your grass has grubs, Ed Lawrence has all the answers! 2006.Healing the eye the natural way: alternative medicine and macular degeneration
Par Edward Kondrot. 2000
A look at how to heal and care for your eyes with nutrition, vitamin therapy, mineral therapy, homeopathy, microcurrent stimulation,…
and chelation therapy. Includes exercises and tips for everyday living. 2001.Home from the hill: three gentlemen adventurers
Par Peter Murray. 1994
Three Englishmen -- Warburton Pike, Clive Phillips-Wolley, and Martin Grainger -- made their mark on Canada in the early 1900s…
through their wilderness explorations in British Columbia. They wrote about and promoted Canada in Engand, and in different ways they helped to shape the province. 1994.Ghosts of Everest: the search for Mallory & Irvine : from the expedition that discovered Mallory's body
Par Jochen Hemmleb, Larry A Johnson, Eric R Simonson. 1999
Presents research and findings from the 1999 Mount Everest expedition in search of remains from the ill-fated 1924 climb by…
George Mallory and Sandy Irvine. Discusses the latter-day group's reconstruction of Mallory's route, the dramatic discovery of his body, and the conclusions reached from forensic examination. 1999.When Cremo's book "Forbidden Archaeology" was published in 1993, the scientific world was shocked by its extensive evidence for extreme…
human antiquity - pushing the origin of the human race back tens of millions of years. "Forbidden Archeology's Impact" documents the explosive reactions to his controversial book. 1998.Getting started in garden railroading: build the railroad of your dreams-- in your own backyard
Par Allan W Miller. 2001
Simple, easy-to-follow steps for an operating railway designed for year-round enjoyment. Begins with the most frequently asked questions posed by…
beginners, and continues with information on planning, design, foundation preparation, trackwork, power and control systems, landscaping, scenic details, and operation. 2001.Hollywood the hard way: a cowboy's journey
Par Patti Dickinson. 1999
In 1945 Oklahoma rancher Rolla Goodnight bet his friend Jimmy Wakely, a singing cowboy star, that Rolla's grandson could ride…
1,500 miles in less than fifty days to Hollywood, California. The author recounts twenty-year-old Jerry Van Meter's grueling trek on horseback across mountains and deserts to his destination. 1999.Glaucoma: a patient's guide to the disease, fourth edition
Par Graham E Trope. 2011
How clean is your house?
Par Kim Woodburn, Aggie MacKenzie. 2004
In this book the authors continue the mission of their popular Channel 4 television series - to educate, inform and…
generally browbeat us all into cleaning properly. Sweeping through the house room by room, they tackle all manner of cleaning challenges, from streaky windows to smelly fridges. Each chapter is packed with tools of the trade, star tips, 'don't do that's', step-by-steps and 'before's and after's'. There's even a 'filth questionnaire' to determine your cleanly status - and Aggie's famous rotas for the cleaning-impaired! 2004.Gardens of our souls: a correspondence of friendship and healing
Par Diane Sims. 1998
The story of Diane Sims, who struggled with Multiple Sclerosis for 23 years and then found out she had the…
same cancer that took her sister's life. Her friend, Marla Fletcher, decided to send Sims letters about her garden. These letters would prove to be an incredible source of inspiration for both women; gardens became a metaphor for the human spirit and as the years passed, Sims began to heal. 1998.High times in the middle of nowhere: the misadventures of Murray Laurence, compulsive traveller
Par Murray Laurence. 1986
A bizarre collection of travel tales. As the author travels, he looks for and enjoys the unexpected and unusual: "I…
quite like being lost... I find that the travel is often more absorbing than the arrival." c1986.High exposure: an enduring passion for Everest and unforgiving places
Par David Breashears. 1999
Autobiography of American mountaineer and cinematographer who made the IMAX film, Everest, in 1996. Discusses his motivation and recounts many…
of his hazardous exploits climbing vertical cliffs and scaling the world's highest peaks. Provides details about his film-making expedition on Everest during the notorious blizzard that took nine lives. Bestseller. 1999.Great heart: the history of a Labrador adventure
Par James West Davidson, John Rugge. 1988
An account of Leonidas Hubbard and Dillon Wallace's canoeing expeditions across the barrens of Labrador in the early 1900s. Describes…
the ill-fated expedition in which Hubbard died, and the 1905 trip which turned into a race between Wallace and Hubbard's widow, Mina. 1988."Gardening from Berryfields" is invaluable to all gardeners and, in particular, to the viewers of BBC2's "Gardeners' World". Using the…
main projects undertaken at Berryfields (the "Gardeners' World" garden), the book guides the reader through a year of gardening, giving practical advice so that they can use Berryfields as a template for managing their own. The book is divided into 13 chapters covering subjects such as the kitchen garden, courtyard garden, dry garden, herb garden, mixed borders, pond, orchard, and wildflower meadow. 1999.Halfway around the world: an improbable journey
Par Gavin Young. 1981
The author, a correspondent for the London "Observer," embarks on the fulfilment of his long-held romantic dream in 1977: port-hopping…
to the other side of the world. His adventure takes him from Piraeus to Jedda, from Dubai to Singapore, and from there to Canton, scrambling his way on board an assortment of twenty-three ships, one of which nearly sank in the Arabian Sea. 1981.Frontier spirit: the brave women of the Klondike
Par Jennifer Duncan. 2003
The story of women in the Klondike, including First Nation woman Shaaw Tláa, whose experience and traditional skills were critical…
to the survival of her white prospector husband. The others who later joined the Klondike Stampede came from all walks of life, and include socialite Martha Black, who became a miner, mill manager, and politician, and Irish farm girl Belinda Mulrooney, who arrived in Dawson with only a quarter to her name. 2003.Ghosts of Vesuvius: a new look at the last days of Pompeii, how towers fall, and other strange connections
Par Charles R Pellegrino. 2004
Weaving together accounts of ancient authorities with research by forensic archaeologists, Pellegrino captures the final hours of Pompeii and Herculaneum.…
In the flash-fossilized remains of victims, he sees reminders of the abiding human hope to understand a brutal universe. Those hopes live both in the science Pellegrino uses to interpret historic volcanic explosions as the distant consequence of the Big Bang, and in the startling connections he makes between the two cities buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE and the Twin Towers destroyed by terrorists in 2001. 2004.Freya Stark (Lives Of Modern Women Ser.)
Par Caroline Moorehead. 1985
Born in Paris in 1893, Freya Stark could speak three languages by the time she was five years old. With…
a high regard for the traditions of Empire, yet also flamboyant, unorthodox and independent, she set out in the 1930s to explore the East. Freya's expeditions in Persia and Hadharmaut established her reputation as a great traveller and writer. 1985.Explorers who made it-- or died trying
Par Frieda Wishinsky, Bill Dickson. 2011
Would you climb a mountain just because it was there, sail in unknown, monster-infested seas, or freeze your toes off…
just to plant a flag on a slab of ice? Many people have – some for the sake of science and curiosity, others in search of fame and fortune. But what made these explorers risk like and limb? Were they fearless or foolish – or both? Grades 3-6. c2011.