Indian Summer

Baker, Kage: Mother Aegypt and Other Stories -Pueblo, Colarado Has the Answers, How they Tried to Talk Indian Tony Down, The Summer People, Two Old Men, Her Father's Eyes, Merry Christmas from Navarro Lodge, Nightmare Mountain, What The Tyger Told Her, Desolation Rose, Canada Nightshade Book 2006
1597800570 As New Cover Illustration by Michael Dringenberg

-----Large soft cover, tight sqaure and clean, flat uncreased spine, no names, 25 pages. "Mother Aegypt features 13 stories, including 3 stories set in the world of her "Anvil of the World" fantasy novel." Contents include: Mother Aegypt / Pueblo, Colarado Has the Answers / How they Tried to Talk Indian Tony Down / The Summer People / Two Old Men / Her Father's Eyes / Merry Christmas from Navarro Lodge / Nightmare Mountain / What The Tyger Told Her / Miss Yahoo Has Her Say / Desolation Rose / The Briscian Saint / Leaving His Cares Behind. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not stock photo First Canadian Edition Soft Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"

[SW: -----Large softs cover, tight sqaure and clean, flat uncreased spine, no names, 25 pages. "Mother Aegypt features 13 stories, including 3 stories set in the world of her "Anvil of the World" fantasy novel." Contents include: Mother Aegypt / Pueblo, Colarado Has the Answers / How they Tried to Talk Indian Tony Down / The Summer People / Two Old Men / Her Father's Eyes / Merry Christmas from Navarro Lodge / Nightmare Mountain / What The Tyger Told Her / Miss Yahoo Has Her Say / Desolation Rose / The Briscian Saint / Leaving His Cares Behind. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not stock Photo, Baker, Kage, Mother Aegypt and Other Stories -Pueblo, Colarado Has the Answers, How they Tried to Talk Indian Tony Down, The Summer People, Two Old Men, Her Father's Eyes, Merry Christmas from Navarro Lodge, Nightmare Mountain, What The Tyger Told Her, Desolation Rose Cover Illustration by Michael Dringenberg]

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Gosse, P. H. THE CANADIAN NATURALIST - A Series of Conversations on the Natural History of Lower Canada, Toronto Coles Canadiana Collection 1971
Very Good

372 pp. First Thus - republishes the John van Voorst, London, 1840 edition. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with forty-four engravings. The Chapters are: JANUARY FIRST: Pleasures of Natural History; Expansive Power of Frost in Trees; Variety in Forms of Trees; Variety in All Created Objects. FEBRUARY FIRST: Silver Thaw; Brilliance of the Meteor; Love of Nature; Cause of the Phenomenon; Virginian Deer; Flakes of Snow; Frosted Windows; Uses of Snow. FEBRUARY FIFTEENTH: Masses of Snow on Evergreens; Wolf; Anecdotes; Ferocity of Carnivorous Animals; Puma; Lynx; Otter; Beaver; Musk-rat; Equalization of Blessings of Providence; Tokens of Extreme Cold; Sunset; Northern Lights. MARCH FIRST: Sundog; Insects; Snow Owl; Masuippi River; American Hare; Moose. MARCH FIFTEENTH: Power of Resisting Cold; Mammals; Birds; Temperature of Cold-blooded Animals; Mosses and Lichens on Trees. APRIL FIRST: Sugaring; Tapping the Maple; Favourable Kind of Weather; Extent of a Sugary; Collecting Sap; Boiling Down; Sugar from Other Trees; Canada Goose; Bare Ground Around Stumps. APRIL FIFTEENTH: Song of Birds; Ruffed Grouse; Honey-bees; Exhilarating Effect of High Elevations; Strange Note of the Blue Jay; Piping Frogs. MAY FIRST: Robin; Green Comma Butterfly; Mosquito; Black Fly; Smudge; Early Settlers; Canada Thistle; Cattle in Pastures; Emmigration to Canada; Misstatements of Writers; Evils of a New Country; Glory of Nature; Cackling of Frogs. MAY TENTH: Belted Kingfisher; Woodpecker; Bald Eagle; Tamarack; Black Cherry. MAY TWENTIETH: Purple Grakle; Reflections of Colour; Poplars; Curious Facts; Wild Gooseberry; Willows; Insects; Indians; Their Warfare; War-whoop; Domestic Manners; Religion; Government; Language; Sufferings; Anecdotes; Evening Walk. MAY TWENTY-FIFTH: Spiders' Webs; White and Red Death; Humming-bird; Crows; Raven; Native Fishes; Maskilonge; Sturgeon; White Dolphin; Seals; Common Dolphin; Capture of One; Squirrels. JUNE FIRST: Musquitoes; Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly; Moosewood; Wild Strawberry; Leafing of Forest Trees; Providence of God; Mushroom. JUNE TENTH: Beauty of Summer; Natural Affinities of Insects; Quivering of the Air; Evening Scenery Contrasting with Morning; Singular Light Once Seen by the Author. JUNE TWENTIETH: Buttercup; Red Clover; Singing Birds; Appearance of Forest; Straightness and Nakedness of Forest Trees; Gloom of Forest; Age of Trees; Tenacity of Life. JULY FIRST: Transformations of Insects; Moths; Puff-balls; Raspberry; Redtop Grass. JULY FIFTEENTH: Climate; Thundershower; Subsequent Freshness; Fog; Agricultural Productions; Weeds; Canada Thistle; Habit of Counterfeiting Death; Skunk; Its Fetid Odour; Dandelion; Scattering of Seeds. AUGUST FIRST: Zebra Hawk-moth; Horse Gad-fly; Bull Frog; Toad; Tree Frog; Field Locusts; Virginian Deer. AUGUST SIXTEENTH: Decayed Trees; Indian Hen; Indian Wickup; Rainbow. SEPTEMBER FIRST: Black Bear; Mode of Fighting; Depredations on the Indian Corn; Farmer's Revenge; Wolves; Cherries; Canadian Blackberry; Tints of Foliage; Pigeons; Singular Forms of Insects. SEPTEMBER TENTH: Excursion to the Bois Brule; A Slash; Old Mill; Fruits and Berries; Character of the Woods; Arched Lane. SEPTEMBER TWENTIETH: Autumnal Frosts; Threshing Buckwheat in the Field; Fading of the Leaves of Trees; Waterfowl; Migration of Aquatic Birds. OCTOBER FIRST: Beautiful Hues of the Forest in Autumn; Cause of the Fall of Leaves; Leaves as Manure; Wild Geese Migration; Snow in September. OCTOBER SIXTEENTH: Indian Summer; Peculiar Weather; Freezing of the River; Winter Wren; Ignorance of Natural History Hurtful to the Farmer; Frozen Apples; Effect of Frost in Loosening Leaves. NOVEMBER FIRST: Clear Bright Weather of Autumn Unlike that of Summer; Beautiful Forms of Frost; Hoar Frost on Grass; Skeleton of Leaves; Migratory Birds. DECEMBER FIRST: Uses of Winter; Our Feelings an Insufficient Criterion of Temperature; Thickness of Animals' Coats in Winter; Butchering; Freezing of Carcases; Hybernation of Reptiles; Winter Condition of Fishes; Tempest in the Forest. DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST: Drifted Snow; Inconvenience of Intense Cold Little Felt; Frozen Feet of Poultry; Sleigh-riding; Occupations of Winter; Tending Stock; Cutting Fuel; Gleam of the Woodman's Axe; Size of Trees; Death by Girdling; Close of the Year; and Conclusion. First Printing Trade Paperback 8vo

[SW: wilderness adventure; coles canadiana collection; canadian author;]

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Gosse, P. H. THE CANADIAN NATURALIST - A Series of Conversations on the Natural History of Lower Canada, Toronto Coles Canadiana Collection 1971
Very Good

372 pp. First Thus - republishes the John van Voorst, London, 1840 edition. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with forty-four engravings. The Chapters are: JANUARY FIRST: Pleasures of Natural History; Expansive Power of Frost in Trees; Variety in Forms of Trees; Variety in All Created Objects. FEBRUARY FIRST: Silver Thaw; Brilliance of the Meteor; Love of Nature; Cause of the Phenomenon; Virginian Deer; Flakes of Snow; Frosted Windows; Uses of Snow. FEBRUARY FIFTEENTH: Masses of Snow on Evergreens; Wolf; Anecdotes; Ferocity of Carnivorous Animals; Puma; Lynx; Otter; Beaver; Musk-rat; Equalization of Blessings of Providence; Tokens of Extreme Cold; Sunset; Northern Lights. MARCH FIRST: Sundog; Insects; Snow Owl; Masuippi River; American Hare; Moose. MARCH FIFTEENTH: Power of Resisting Cold; Mammals; Birds; Temperature of Cold-blooded Animals; Mosses and Lichens on Trees. APRIL FIRST: Sugaring; Tapping the Maple; Favourable Kind of Weather; Extent of a Sugary; Collecting Sap; Boiling Down; Sugar from Other Trees; Canada Goose; Bare Ground Around Stumps. APRIL FIFTEENTH: Song of Birds; Ruffed Grouse; Honey-bees; Exhilarating Effect of High Elevations; Strange Note of the Blue Jay; Piping Frogs. MAY FIRST: Robin; Green Comma Butterfly; Mosquito; Black Fly; Smudge; Early Settlers; Canada Thistle; Cattle in Pastures; Emmigration to Canada; Misstatements of Writers; Evils of a New Country; Glory of Nature; Cackling of Frogs. MAY TENTH: Belted Kingfisher; Woodpecker; Bald Eagle; Tamarack; Black Cherry. MAY TWENTIETH: Purple Grakle; Reflections of Colour; Poplars; Curious Facts; Wild Gooseberry; Willows; Insects; Indians; Their Warfare; War-whoop; Domestic Manners; Religion; Government; Language; Sufferings; Anecdotes; Evening Walk. MAY TWENTY-FIFTH: Spiders' Webs; White and Red Death; Humming-bird; Crows; Raven; Native Fishes; Maskilonge; Sturgeon; White Dolphin; Seals; Common Dolphin; Capture of One; Squirrels. JUNE FIRST: Musquitoes; Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly; Moosewood; Wild Strawberry; Leafing of Forest Trees; Providence of God; Mushroom. JUNE TENTH: Beauty of Summer; Natural Affinities of Insects; Quivering of the Air; Evening Scenery Contrasting with Morning; Singular Light Once Seen by the Author. JUNE TWENTIETH: Buttercup; Red Clover; Singing Birds; Appearance of Forest; Straightness and Nakedness of Forest Trees; Gloom of Forest; Age of Trees; Tenacity of Life. JULY FIRST: Transformations of Insects; Moths; Puff-balls; Raspberry; Redtop Grass. JULY FIFTEENTH: Climate; Thundershower; Subsequent Freshness; Fog; Agricultural Productions; Weeds; Canada Thistle; Habit of Counterfeiting Death; Skunk; Its Fetid Odour; Dandelion; Scattering of Seeds. AUGUST FIRST: Zebra Hawk-moth; Horse Gad-fly; Bull Frog; Toad; Tree Frog; Field Locusts; Virginian Deer. AUGUST SIXTEENTH: Decayed Trees; Indian Hen; Indian Wickup; Rainbow. SEPTEMBER FIRST: Black Bear; Mode of Fighting; Depredations on the Indian Corn; Farmer's Revenge; Wolves; Cherries; Canadian Blackberry; Tints of Foliage; Pigeons; Singular Forms of Insects. SEPTEMBER TENTH: Excursion to the Bois Brule; A Slash; Old Mill; Fruits and Berries; Character of the Woods; Arched Lane. SEPTEMBER TWENTIETH: Autumnal Frosts; Threshing Buckwheat in the Field; Fading of the Leaves of Trees; Waterfowl; Migration of Aquatic Birds. OCTOBER FIRST: Beautiful Hues of the Forest in Autumn; Cause of the Fall of Leaves; Leaves as Manure; Wild Geese Migration; Snow in September. OCTOBER SIXTEENTH: Indian Summer; Peculiar Weather; Freezing of the River; Winter Wren; Ignorance of Natural History Hurtful to the Farmer; Frozen Apples; Effect of Frost in Loosening Leaves. NOVEMBER FIRST: Clear Bright Weather of Autumn Unlike that of Summer; Beautiful Forms of Frost; Hoar Frost on Grass; Skeleton of Leaves; Migratory Birds. DECEMBER FIRST: Uses of Winter; Our Feelings an Insufficient Criterion of Temperature; Thickness of Animals' Coats in Winter; Butchering; Freezing of Carcases; Hybernation of Reptiles; Winter Condition of Fishes; Tempest in the Forest. DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST: Drifted Snow; Inconvenience of Intense Cold Little Felt; Frozen Feet of Poultry; Sleigh-riding; Occupations of Winter; Tending Stock; Cutting Fuel; Gleam of the Woodman's Axe; Size of Trees; Death by Girdling; Close of the Year; and Conclusion. First Printing Trade Paperback 8vo

[SW: wilderness adventure; coles canadiana collection; canadian author;]

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Von Tunzelmann, Alex: Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, New York Henry Holt and Company 2007 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0805080732
0805080732 Fine

x, 401 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus., maps, biblio., index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties--set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century. The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. With the loss of India, its greatest colony, Britain ceased to be a superpower, and its king ceased to sign himself Rex Imperator. This defining moment of world history had been brought about by a handful of people. Among them were Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister; Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the leader of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to get Britain out of India. Within hours of the midnight chimes, their dreams of freedom and democracy would turn to chaos, bloodshed, and war. Behind the scenes, a secret personal drama was also unfolding, as Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru began a passionate love affair. Their romance developed alongside Cold War conspiracies, the beginning of a terrible conflict in Kashmir, and an epic sweep of events that saw one million people killed and ten million dispossessed. Steeped in the private papers and reflections of the participants, Indian Summer reveals, in vivid, exhilarating detail, how the actions of a few extraordinary people changed the lives of millions and determined the fate of nations. / Alex von Tunzelmann was educated at Oxford and lives in London. Indian Summer is her first book." - Publisher. First Edition, First Printing Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Collectible; First Edition, First Printing

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