Grant Cannon’s father left a hardscrabble East Texas farm for the Colorado gold fields in the 1860s. After two years of waiting, their mother left for San Francisco and Grant and his brother headed west to look for their father, Dale. They stumble on a collection of homesteads that the residents, mostly former slaves, call Freedom Town. They stay there for several years, thinking that Dale is dead.Dale had been shot and robbed but survived three years alone in the mountains with amn...

In this book, Smith takes you on a journey through the dark side of some of life's compromising situations and allows an avenue for you to see the light. Each poem gives a quick abstruse view of trials and tribulations that we might recognize either within others or within ourselves, ending with a word of encouragement to continue to seek happiness. This book points out some of life's vulnerable situations that stimulate your soul-searching and thought-provoking mindset to seek peace in a ...

Good One, Erm is a warm and moving story of cranky neighbours and family love by the author of The Bamboo Flute.It?s not easy moving house and making new friends. Especially not when the neighbours think you?re weird.And not when Ermyntrude, your grand piano, sends wolfhounds and comets after the man next door. And sirens, and horses and roosters, and barn owls?It?s not easy when you know you?ll never see your father again ? will y...

This book, part of the series Cave and Karst Systems of the World, begins with a review of the interaction between people and caves in Australia (including conservation), followed by descriptions of the spectacular cave diving sites, before comprehensively covering all the major carbonate and noncarbonate karst areas, subdivided by rock type and region, and including the origin of the caves. This is followed by broad overviews of cave minerals and speleothems, cave biology and cave fossils...