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FEROX AND CHAR IN THE LOCHS OF SCOTLAND AN INQUIRY BY R. P. HARDIE
PART II The publication of these notes is perhaps justified by a
long and fairly extensive experience of lochs in Scotland.
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Los Angeles River
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Ted Elrick, Friends of the Los Angeles River
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The book is a combination of all the things pertaining to my
fishing for so many years. It is how I got started, what I learned,
who I met, what I caught, what interesting things happened. I am
not through learning or enjoying my life doing this. There is
always something new tomorrow.
The pictures are of the people that I knew, myself, odd things
we caught, or odd things that happened.
This book investigates decolonization as a local process and its
connections to international relations, introducing "internal
colonialism" as a crucial analytical category for
internationalists. Using Bolivia as a case study, the author argues
that the reshaping of colonialism and its resistance domestically
is also reflected and reproduced abroad by political actors, be
they the governments or indigenous movements. By problematizing
postcolonial debate concerning the constitution/reproduction of
colonial logics in International Relations, the book proposes a
return to the local to show how power relations are exercised
concretely by the protagonists of political process. Such dynamics
reveal the interrelationship between the local and the
international, especially, in which the latter represents a
necessary dimension to both reinforce colonialism and oppose
colonial logics. Of interest to scholars and students of IR, Latin
American and Andean Studies, this book will also appeal to those
working in the fields of area studies, anthropology, indigenous
politics, comparative politics, decolonization and political
ecology.
Fishermen of Taupo is a book about the fly fishermen of New
Zealand's Lake Taupo. It tells the individual stories of twenty
Taupo fishermen that I have been fortunate enough to fish with over
the years. Taupo is, and still remains, a gem, but with the world
getting ever smaller due to air travel, this fishery is fragile.
Still it remains, like its trout, wild. It needs protecting before
it's lost.
The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. For
centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary
monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to find
bizarre, unknown species, chemicals to make new medicines, and to
gain a greater understanding of how this world of ours works. With
an average depth of 12,000 feet and chasms that plunge much deeper,
it forms a frontier for new discoveries. The Brilliant Abyss tells
the story of our relationship with the deep sea - how we imagine,
explore and exploit it. It captures the golden age of discovery we
are currently in and looks back at the history of how we got here,
while also looking forward to the unfolding new environmental
disasters that are taking place miles beneath the waves, far beyond
the public gaze. Throughout history, there have been two distinct
groups of deep-sea explorers. Both have sought knowledge but with
different and often conflicting ambitions in mind. Some people want
to quench their curiosity; many more have been lured by the
possibilities of commerce and profit. The tension between these two
opposing sides is the theme that runs throughout the book, while
readers are taken on a chronological journey through humanity's
developing relationship with the deep sea. The Brilliant Abyss ends
by looking forwards to humanity's advancing impacts on the deep,
including mining and pollution and what we can do about them.
Based on the famed French explorer's film series, Jean-Michel
Cousteau: Ocean Adventures , these are the definitive guides to
America's 13 National Marine Sanctuaries and Marine National
Monuments. Each installment conducts a grand adventure through each
of the four regions of the National Marine Sanctuary system,
combining engaging descriptions, stunning photography, and
behind-the-scenes stories from the Ocean Futures Society expedition
team. Intelligent inquiries into the health of the world's oceans
are provided along with an overview of several incredible
underwater treasures. Conveying the beauty of the ocean and the
specific measures being put into effect to preserve it, this
inspirational collection also features detailed, practical
information for planning visits to the sanctuaries. Included in
this volume are the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine
Sanctuary, Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and
Papahanaumokuakea National Marine Sanctuary.
Based on the famed French explorer's film series, "Jean-Michel
Cousteau: Ocean Adventures," these are the definitive guides to
America's 13 National Marine Sanctuaries and Marine National
Monuments. Each installment conducts a grand adventure through each
of the four regions of the National Marine Sanctuary system,
combining engaging descriptions, stunning photography, and
behind-the-scenes stories from the Ocean Futures Society expedition
team. Intelligent inquiries into the health of the world's oceans
are provided along with an overview of several incredible
underwater treasures. Conveying the beauty of the ocean and the
specific measures being put into effect to preserve it, this
inspirational collection also features detailed, practical
information for planning visits to the sanctuaries. Included in
this volume are the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Gray's
Reef National Marine Sanctuary, off Sapelo Island, Georgia; and
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, in the northwestern
Gulf of Mexico.
The definitive field guide to all the sharks, rays and chimaeras of
the European Atlantic and Mediterranean The waters of the northeast
Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea are home to an amazing variety of
sharks, rays and chimaeras. This comprehensive and easy-to-use
field guide covers all 146 species found in the Mediterranean, the
waters of the European Atlantic and Iceland, along all the
Scandinavian coasts, in the Black Sea and as far south as the
Canary Islands. Detailed species accounts describe key
identification features, habitat, biology and status. Every species
account comes with a colour distribution map, a depth guide,
at-a-glance icons and colour illustrations. This must-have field
guide also features illustrated key guides that enable you to
accurately identify down to species, comparison plates of similar
species, illustrations of eggcases where known and plates of teeth.
The first field guide to cover all 146 species Features hundreds of
colour illustrations, photos, maps and diagrams Describes key
features, habitat, biology and status Includes depth guides,
at-a-glance icons, key guides and teeth plates
Originally published as Bulletin of the US Bureau of Fisheries,
Volume XLIII, 1927, Part I, this is a classic of the fisheries
literature that has been out-of-print and unavailable too long. For
each species included in the book, the authors attempted to provide
common names, descriptions (in language as non-technical as
possible), diagnostic characteristics, variations, food and feeding
habits, spawning, embryology and larval development, growth rates,
relative abundance, commercial importance, habitat and specimens in
the Smithsonian collection.
It's different when it's your daughter. DI Gravel's daughter Emily
has landed her dream job working for high profile solicitor Charles
Turner. But the job turns deadly when she attracts the attention of
a serial killer. Gravel is already on the case, the bodies are
piling up and the killer's sick fantasies are enough to give the
detective nightmares. However, the killer's obsession with Emily
raises the stakes. Can Gravel and Emily survive the case? This is
the third book in the dark, edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime
thriller series set in the stunning West Wales countryside.
*Previously published as A Cold Cold Heart*
Originally published in 2003, Covered Waters is a "forgotten
classic" by Joseph Heywood. Now back in print and featuring new
material, this collection of autobiographical essays and fishing
tales helps readers understand the extent of Heywood's passion for
the sport, especially in his native waters of Michigan. Covered
Waters covers an outdoorsman's wanderings and wonderings about
fishing and life, and how the two are often interconnected. These
episodes include reminiscences of his days in the U.S. Air Force,
training to drop nukes on the Soviet Union in the Cold War; his
temporary but intense obsession with bear hunting (which ended the
moment he finally killed a bear); and, of course, his international
adventures in fishing, recounting such hilarious scenes as two
women in France engaged in what appeared to be strip fishing. After
fishing the world over, Heywood finds that there is no water like
home water, and no fishing partners like old friends.
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Pittsburgh's Rivers
(Hardcover)
Daniel J Burns; As told to Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are
among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural
universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington,
Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom Roorbach
("The Professor") and his family might always be considered
outsiders, this book chronicles one man's determined
effort-occasionally with hilarious results-to follow his stream to
its elusive source. Acclaimed essayist and award-winning fiction
writer Bill Roorbach uses his singular literary gifts to inspire us
to laugh, love, and experience the wonder of living side by side
with the natural world.
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Marineland
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Cheryl Messinger, Terran McGinnis
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