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People of the Ice (Paperback)
Heather Smith Siska; Illustrated by Ian Bateson
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The Eskimo-or Inuit as they prefer to be called-are scattered
throughout the vast northern regions of North America and
Greenland. Theirs is a hostile land with a fierce Arctic climate,
yet the Inuit have survived for centuries. More than any other
native group, they depended on hunting and fishing for survival:
food, heat and light, clothing, shelter, means of transport, tools
and weapons-even drinking water, for in winter, animal fat had to
be burned to melt snow. This book describes and illustrates how the
Inuit built their igloos, kayaks and sledges; made their clothing
and prepared their food; played games and carved beautiful objects
from soapstone, and, of course, how they hunted and fished. Heather
Smith Siska is a freelance writer who has published school
textbooks and articles in children's magazines. Ian Bateson, a
freelance artist, illustrated People of the Trail and People of the
Longhouse.
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Nuclear Dragons (Paperback, New)
Jim McPherson; Illustrated by Ian Bateson; Created by Jim McPherson
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R560
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The Launching of the Cosmic Express took place on Centauri Island
at the end of November 1980. It was destroyed ... Or was it? No
matter. Its destroyers thought it was. And they're not done yet.
Who or what can stop them? The Menace on the Moon? Silver-armoured
Signal System? Supra-Clones? Loxus Abraham Ryne, the eighty year
old head of SPACE ('The Society for the Prevention of Alien Control
of Earth')? A couple of middle-aged, newly-minted supranormals
named Doc Defiance and Mr. No Name? A twenty-seven year old who
neither knows who his parents were nor what an Amoeba Man was? An
obesity who knows far more than he should but is disinclined to
share that knowledge with anyone, not even his own son? Or maybe,
just maybe, a notorious little trickster who has been seven years
old for something like sixty years Truth told: How can anyone stop
Nuclear Dragons
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People of the Longhouse (Paperback)
Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington; Illustrated by Ian Bateson
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The Iroguoian people-Huron, Iroquois and many others-lived
throughout the Great Lakes basin and the St. Lawrence River
valley.Their lands were rich in game, criss-crossed by waterways
and well suited for agriculture. They cleared fields around large
fortified villages and lived in longhouses made of wood. Men's
activities centered on hunting, fishing and a far-reaching trade
with other tribes. Women grew and harvested the crops of corn,
beans and squash. These abundant resources made possible a
sophisticated culture. They formed leagues with laws and a
constitution, invented games like lacrosse and used wampum shells
as a form of exchange. This book describes in fascinating detail
every aspect of the Iroquoian way of life-farming, hunting,
trading, beliefs, clothing, housing, clans and villages, political
structure, warfare-as well as the impact of contact with Europeans.
Jillian Ridington has taught native studies and works as a
freelance researcher, writer and broadcaster. Robin Ridington
teaches anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The are
also the authors of People of the Trail. Ian Bateson is a freelance
artist whose books include People of the Trail and People of the
Ice.
The Gods and Goddesses, the Demons and Monsters, of ancient
mythologies have been trivialized, their worship proscribed and the
entities themselves confined to another realm. Their ongoing
battles are chronicled throughout Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos.
In "The War of the Apocalyptics," the first book in the LAUNCH 1980
story cycle, a number of these acknowledged devils break out of the
Sedon Sphere, the dimensional barrier between the Inner and the
Outer Earth. Among them are the Apocalyptics: War, Death, Disease
and Destruction. Death is pregnant. The 17-year Secret War of
Supranormals ended in December 1955. At the end of November 1980,
1955's Last of the Supranormals re-emerge whole, bodies with minds,
from nearly a quarter century in Limbo. Since they do so on
Damnation Isle, in the Aleutian Chain of islands, they consequently
decide to call themselves the Damnation Brigade. They may be all
that can stand against the Apocalyptics and their allies. Although
evidently mortal and mostly human, they may also be the sons and
daughters of the Gods and Goddesses, the Demons and Monsters, of
ancient mythologies.
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