Books with title The Wilderness War

An elephant who hates kids. A rapping turtle. Two arguing twin rhinos. An animal lover. Dozens of hunters. When these all come together, a story forms. The animals of this world are being hunted down to extinction. They have hidden, they have fought, they have run away. Now, they turn to their last option: peace. They flock from all parts of the world, the oceans, the lands, the skies. They plea to the hunters to stop killing them. Elaine Dasher wants to help. She sets up a stage and sends flyers around the world to some of the most ruthless poachers. She asks the animals to talk to them. The only question is, will they listen?

This volume contains a collection of exciting hunting and wilderness anecdotes that will appeal to those with an interest in tales of survival and outdoor pursuits. This book would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Warner’s work. The chapters include: “How I Killed a Bear”, “Lost in the Woods”, “A Fight with a Trout”, “A Character Study”, “Camping Out”, “A Wilderness Romance”, “What Some People Call Pleasure”, etcetera. Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900) was an American novelist, essayist, and close friend of Mark Twain. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Reader's Favorite Gold Medal WinnerWhat if your blog could save the nation, but posting to it might cost your life?Two extraordinary people born for a time such as this.As catastrophes drive the US into martial law, all eyes are on America, waiting to see what emerges. KC Banning, network specialist, discovers President Hannan’s tyrannical plans and is branded a terrorist, sending her fleeing the Beltway to find her childhood soulmate and protector, Brock Daniels. Brock, a writer and man of faith, gives CPR to a dying nation through his blog, which is read by military members still loyal to the Constitution. But starting a grassroots insurgency while reconciling KC’s and Brock’s broken relationship proves difficult. When Hannan sends Special Forces to kill Brock and KC, starting a war in the Central Oregon desert, reconciliation, like staying alive, might be impossible.Set in Washington DC and near Crooked River Ranch in the Central Oregon desert, Voice in the Wilderness, Book 1 of the Against All Enemies Series, is a political thriller, with romance, about two people who must decide if they’re willing to sacrifice their lives to prevent the USA from becoming the Dystopian States of America.

The home place goes up in flames as bushwhackers burn fifteen-year-old Thad Woodruff's home near the Civil War fight at Wilson's Creek; Fort Sumter is just months past and bloodshed and impressment into the war are rampant. Thad's father and brother, fighting for the Southern Cause, are killed and the turmoil of these earliest days of The War forces Thad to consider an array of problems always pertinent to the development of youth--What to do if one disagrees with the majority around one? What is freedom? How does one become one's own person? Thad, for very good reasons, refuses to fight on either side. But The War will not let him and his family alone. With his home in flames and the bushwhackers after him, he, four sisters and his pregnant mother struggle to a remote, uninhabited region of the Ozarks, where they must learn to live as if they were pioneers, but he, and the Woodruff females, able and strong individuals, learn to survive in a harsh, relentless wilderness. A new brother is born; Thad tames a bear, captures a wild hog. A few others, involved in or escaping the war for their own reasons, drift into the wilderness. Thad builds a school where a sister will teach; he builds a cabin, gets ensnared in a bear trap which a wandering Yank gets off him, and Thad ventures into the world of war for supplies. But there is no escaping the moral issues of The War and life itself; they eventually confront him in the wilderness. Thad helps an escaping slave, buries a youth shot as a spy; helps a dying wounded soldier. Eventually the war ends and Thad decides to live on in the wilderness which he has come to love. The themes, survival in a harsh relentless wilderness, the suffering of the innocent, the warmth of a family's love for each other, the direct and indirect effects of war, are woven into the adventure tale.

"In the Wilderness" by Charles Dudley Warner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

HERMES AND THE CHILD CHAPTER I Amedeo Dorini, the hall porter of the Hotel Cavour in Milan, stood on the pavement before the hotel one autumn afternoon in the year 1894, waiting for the omnibus, which had gone to the station, and which was now due to return, bearing—Amedeo hoped—a load of generously inclined travelers. During the years of his not unpleasant servitude Amedeo had become a student of human nature. He had learnt to judge shrewdly and soundly, to sum up quickly, to deliver verdicts which were not unjust. And now, as he saw the omnibus, with its two fat brown horses, coming slowly along by the cab rank, and turning into the Piazza that is presided over by Cavour's statue, he prepared almost mechanically to measure and weigh evidence, to criticize and come to a conclusion. He glanced first at the roof of the omnibus to take stock of the luggage pile there. There was plenty of it, and a good deal of it was leather and reassuring. Amedeo had a horror of tin trunks—they usually gave such small tips. Having examined the luggage he sent a searching glance to two rows of heads which were visible inside the vehicle. The brawny porters hurried out, the luggage chute was placed in position, the omnibus door was opened, and the first traveler stepped forth. A German of the most economical type, large, red and wary, with a mouth like a buttoned-up pocket, was followed by a broad-waisted wife, with dragged hair and a looped-up gown. Amedeo's smile tightened. A Frenchman followed them, pale and elaborate, a "one-nighter," as Amedeo instantly decided in his mind. Such Frenchmen are seldom extravagant in hotels. This gentleman would want a good room for a small price, would be extremely critical about the cooking, and have a wandering eye and a short memory for all servants in the morning

WINNING THE WILDERNESS By MARGARET HILL McCARTER Author of "The Price of the Prairie," "A Wall of Men," "The Peace of the Solomon Valley," "A Master's Degree," etc. Chicago A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1914 FOREWORD A reach of level prairie bounded only by the edge of the world--misty ravelings of heliotrope and amber, covered only by the arch of heaven--blue, beautiful and pitiless in its far fathomless spaces. To the southwest a triple fold of deeper purple on the horizon line--mere hint of commanding headlands thitherward. Across the face of the prairie streams wandering through shallow clefts, aimlessly, somewhere toward the southeast; their course secured by gentle swells breaking into sheer low bluffs on the side next to the water, or by groups of cottonwood trees and wild plum bushes along their right of way. And farther off the brown indefinite shadowings of half-tamed sand dunes. Aside from these things, a featureless landscape--just grassy ground down here and blue cloud-splashed sky up there. The last Indian trail had disappeared. The hoofprints of cavalry horses had faded away. The price had been paid for the prairie--the costly measure of death and daring. But the prairie itself, in its loneliness and loveliness, was still unsubdued. Through the fury of the winter's blizzard, the glory of the springtime, the brown wastes of burning midsummer, the long autumn, with its soft sweet air, its opal skies, and the land a dream of splendor which the far mirage reflects and the wide horizon frames in a curtain of exquisite amethyst--through none of these was the prairie subdued. Only to the coming of that king whose scepter is the hoe, did soul of the soil awake to life and promise. To him the wilderness gave up everything except its beauty and the sweep of the freedom-breathing winds that still inspire it.

This volume contains a collection of exciting hunting and wilderness anecdotes that will appeal to those with an interest in tales of survival and outdoor pursuits. This book would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Warner's work. The chapters include: "How I Killed a Bear", "Lost in the Woods", "A Fight with a Trout", "A Character Study", "Camping Out", "A Wilderness Romance", "What Some People Call Pleasure", etcetera. Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900) was an American novelist, essayist, and close friend of Mark Twain. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.