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Allan W. Eckert

    30 gennaio 1931 – 7 luglio 2011

    Allan W. Eckert è stato uno storico, romanziere storico e naturalista americano. Le sue opere approfondiscono la storia americana e il mondo naturale, concentrandosi spesso su specie perdute e narrazioni di frontiera. Lo stile distintivo di Eckert intreccia l'accuratezza fattuale con una narrazione avvincente, portando il passato vividamente alla vita per i lettori. Onorato come lo scrittore dell'Ohio preferito di tutti i tempi, il suo impatto duraturo sulla letteratura e sul racconto storico è innegabile.

    The Wand
    The Southeastern Quadrant
    A Sorrow in Our Heart
    Savage Journey
    The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone
    Earth Treasures Vol 3
    • Earth Treasures Vol 3

      • 664pagine
      • 24 ore di lettura

      Here at last, is the ultimate guidebook to actual locales that can be driven to for collecting rocks, minerals and fossils in Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. The four volumes, with over 1,200 maps, describe over 5,000 sprecific sites; this Volume 3 includes over 300 to-scale maps marked with over 1,000 collecting sites and detailed directions on getting there, the types of rocks, minerals and fossils to be found at each site, and how and where to search once you've arrived.

      Earth Treasures Vol 3
    • Based on a little-known incident in the life of Boone when, after being captured by Shawnees and subsequently escaping, he was charged with treason and court-martialed. In a brilliant display of ability, Boone defends himself at the trial and gradually the truth about what really happened emerges until he is at last exonorated.

      The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone
    • Savage Journey

      • 372pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      "Eckert's skills as a naturalist, previously displayed in his Newbery Award-winning Incident at Hawk's Hill, are here given full expression and armchair adventurers will soon be caught in its spell. The pristine and often savage beauty of the killer rainforest is described in lush detail; the reader is right there, watching. Once the reader has been snagged, he'll be as much a captive of the magnificent forest as is Sarah Francis and just as intent as she to survive in a paradoxically terrifying and beautiful environment. The reader cannot help by hold his breath!"-Cincinnati Enquirer

      Savage Journey
    • A Sorrow in Our Heart

      • 862pagine
      • 31 ore di lettura

      A biography of the Shawnee chief describes his plan to amalgamate all North American tribes into one people, hsi role as a military strategist, and his death in battle

      A Sorrow in Our Heart
    • The Southeastern Quadrant

      Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virgin

      • 516pagine
      • 19 ore di lettura

      Here at last, is the ultimate guidebook to actual locales that can be driven to for collecting rocks, minerals and fossils in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The four volumes, with over 1,200 maps, describe over 5,000 specific sites; this Volume 2 includes over 300 to-scale maps marked with over 1,000 collecting sites and detailed directions on getting there, the types of rocks, minerals and fossils to be found at each site, and how and where to search once you've arrived.

      The Southeastern Quadrant
    • The Wand

      The Return to Mesmeria

      • 168pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      The twins, Lara and Barnaby, find a new way back into Mesmeria, but in a time frame different than originally. The good Queen Mag Namodder has been kidnapped by the evil King of Bluggia and will die unless the twins and their friends can rescue her. In the effort, they encounter many dreadful hazards…and Lara becomes a witch.

      The Wand
    • The King Snake

      • 156pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      A very special young adult nature novel about the life and adventures in survival of a North Carolina king snake, from the time of his hatching until he becomes adult. The story shows the way he lives, how he catches and eats his prey (including other snakes, even poisonous ones), his value in the balance of nature and the fascinating events of his life, shedding new light and understanding about the lives of snakes, which, despite their value to man, are so often misunderstood and deliberately killed just because of what they are or what they are perceived to be.

      The King Snake
    • Here at last, is the ultimate guidebook to actual locales that can be driven to for collecting rocks, minerals and fossils in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. The four volumes, with over 1,200 maps, describe over 5,000 specific sites; this Volume 4 includes over 300 to-scale maps marked with over 1,000 collecting sites and detailed directions on getting there, the types of rocks, minerals and fossils to be found at each site, and how and where to search once you've arrived.

      The Southwestern Quadrant
    • Earth Treasures, Vol. 4B

      Southwestern Quadrant

      • 404pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Here at last, is the ultimate guidebook to actual locales that can be driven to for collecting rocks, minerals and fossils in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. The four volumes, with over 1,200 maps, describe over 5,000 specific sites; this Volume 4 includes over 300 to-scale maps marked with over 1,000 collecting sites and detailed directions on getting there, the types of rocks, minerals and fossils to be found at each site, and how and where to search once you've arrived.

      Earth Treasures, Vol. 4B
    • The Frontiersmen

      • 751pagine
      • 27 ore di lettura

      Driven from their homeland, the Indians fought bitterly to keep a final stronghold east of the Mississippi. Savage cunning, strength, skill, and knowledge of the wilderness were their weapons, and the Indians used them mercilessly. But they couldn't foresee the white men who would come later, men who loved the land as much as they did, who wanted it for their own. Men who learned the Indian tricks and matched brutality for brutality.

      The Frontiersmen