In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, bestselling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, sets out to rediscover Scotland's mountains, remote places and wildlife in the darkest and stormiest months. He traverses the country from the mouth of the River Ness to the Isle of Mull, from remote Sutherland to the Cairngorms, in search of rutting red deer, pupping seals, minke whales, beavers, pine martens, mountain hares and otters. In ...

Every man was once a boy. And every little boy has dreams, big dreams: dreams of being the hero, of beating the bad guys, of doing daring feats and rescuing the damsel in distress. Every little girl has dreams, too: of being rescued by her prince and swept up into a great adventure, knowing that she is the beauty. But what happens to those dreams when we grow up? Walk into most churches, have a look around, and ask yourself: What is a Christian man? Without listening to what is said, look ...

God designed men to seek out adventure. But, somewhere between childhood and the struggles of yesterday, most men lose sight of those dreams. Fear not: bestselling author and counselor John Eldredge is here to teach men that there's a better way to live.In this updated and expanded edition of the timeless bestseller Wild at Heart, Eldredge unpacks man's search for validation, the need for the development of courage in his soul, and the call to live a life ...

Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards and lions—including the celebrated Christian—to the wild in central Kenya.Born Wild is the memoir of Fitzjohn’s extraordinary life. It shows how a man driven by an impossibly restles...

Deeply romantic, edge-of-your-seat exciting, with a love for horses at its core and handsome surfers as a bonus: for fans of The Summer I Turned Pretty and The One Dollar Horse .15-year-old American, Morgan, has flown over to England to spend a summer by the sea with cousins she's never met.All anyone knows is that she's recovering from an accident that left her scarred inside and out. That and that her behaviour...

Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an interior of watery, green anarchy where border disputes are often based on ancient Elizabethan ...

In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, bestselling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, sets out to rediscover Scotland’s mountains, remote places and wildlife in the darkest and stormiest months. He traverses the country from the mouth of the River Ness to the Isle of Mull, from remote Sutherland to the Cairngorms, in search of rutting red deer, pupping seals, minke whales, beavers, pine martens, mountain hares and otters. In ...

Endlich als E-Book: Die Folgen der Kult-Serie John Sinclair aus den Jahren 2000 - 2009!Es war der Ort, an dem Himmel und Hölle zusammentrafen. Wo die Engel der Hölle endlich Rache nehmen wollten für das, was man ihnen in tief vergangenen Zeiten angetan hatte.Ihr Anführer, der freigesprengte Urteufel, war erwacht. Er holte seine Armee und begann den Krieg ...John Sinclair ist der Serien-Klassiker von Jason Dark. Mit über 300 Millionen verkauften Heftromanen und Tasch...

To eat wild foods, you needn't crawl through the forest or hunt your own game. Many wild foods are as close by as your local supermarket.But this doesn't mean that wild foods aren't worth the hunt. This book takes a big view of "wild," including recipes and information on both foraged, uncultivated foods as well as looking at the progeny of wild foods more conveniently found for sale alongside their conventional cousins.Increasingly Americans are concerned ab...

Endlich als E-Book: Die Folgen der Kult-Serie John Sinclair aus den Jahren 1980 - 1989!Morganas wilde Meute.Da war es wieder!Dieses verdammte, unheimliche Gefühl, der Druck, der sich einfach nicht vertreiben ließ. Das Wissen um Dinge, die vorhanden, aber trotzdem nicht zu sehen waren.In der letzten Zeit hatte es sich verstärkt, die Warnungen konnten einfach nicht überhört werden, und Dr. Jenna Jensen, die Archäologin, musste damit fertig werden oder aufgeben...

Angriff auf die Flammenden Steine! Ragnarök droht, das Ende der Götter! Und die Welt versinkt in Eis und Schnee!Alles begann mit einem unnatürlich dichten Schneefall in London, wie es ihn seit vielen Jahren nicht mehr gegeben hatte. Und plötzlich rasteten die Menschen aus, gingen aufeinander los. Selbst Suko und mir erging es so! Nackte Aggression ergriff uns! Dann erfuhren wir, dass sich der kleine Magier Myxin mit seiner bewusstlosen Gefährtin Kara nach London te...

Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environmental effects and left a troubled legacy.When two mining companies in Yellowknife began processing gold ore in the 1940s, they did so with little or no pollution controls. Giant Mine spewed thousands of kilograms of arsenic trioxide from its roaster stack into the environment, causing ill...