From the steaming equatorial jungles of the South Pacific to the frozen wastelands of the high Arctic, often pursued by armed revolutionaries, marauding tribesmen, and the occasional corrupt bureaucrat, a team of highly skilled professionals seek to find and recover some of aviation's lost heritage. Learn what it's like to endure bone-chilling cold nearly two hundred feet beneath a dark North Carolina lake as they struggle to raise a B-25 bomber lost for over fifty years. Experience the fear of crashing your ship onto the rocks in the "fjord of death" hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle with no hope of rescue. After having been nearly kidnapped by guerillas in the Philippines, problems like running out of air while trying to get untangled sixty feet down become almost mundane. Part autobiographical, part historical, Ride with the Pirates is all adventure.
George Carter falls into a deep depression after his wife of 31 years walks out. A therapist friend encourages George to start his life over. But when George becomes involved with a beautiful woman named Iris, he begins to suspect that she suffers from multiple personality disorder, and he does everything in his power to help her.
Combining inspiration with practicality, Perfect Pots for Small Spaces offers 20 exciting projects, each simple enough to complete in a weekend. Containers come in all sorts of materials, sizes and shapes, and can be used to enhance any outdoor space, from a small terrace to a large garden. In this highly informative and superbly illustrated book, award-winning gardener George Carter explains how to make the most of them. Divided into four sections – on terra cotta, masonry, metal and wood – it has step-by-step instructions and ideas for seasonal planting plans that make container gardening accessible to all. Among the imaginative projects are painted pots, a wirework hanging basket, a rustic window box, a trough with trellis screen, a wooden obelisk and a painted galvanised washtub. The projects are complemented by a plant directory, information on care and maintenance of containers and plants and an extensive list of resources.
Our knowledge of the hundred-thousand-years of human prehistory in the Americas has grown in spite of false starts, disciplinary straitjackets, and occasional personal attacks of those who have challenged prevailing notions. George F. Carter has for forty years been at the forefront of the controversy over the age of American antiquity. Here he tells the dual story of that controversy and the fascinating unraveling of the record of human presence in the Americas. Events and a new generation of scientists are now proving that Carter’s daring estimates of antiquity may after all have understated the time since humans first entered the Americas. This book is written for the inquiring reader rather than the technician. Yet archeologists, anthropologists, geographers, geologists, and historians of science too will find stimulation and illumination in its pages. This fresh examination of the archeological evidence and one scientist’s search for it—the story of science in action—proves to be a very human story.
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Side by Side is the third of five books that describe an updated version of what Joseph Campbell called a "hero's journey," one man's trip from a small coal mining town in Southwest Virginia to Honolulu, Hawaii. An odyssey extending over the middle of the twentieth century, Side by Side circles from Hawaii to Hawaii with two stopovers in Saigon. Side by Side is a love story that reflects the problems and opportunities of military families. Humor and heartache are woven through the conflict of duty versus family. Raised as a God-fearing son of a coal miner, George is not adequately prepared when he wades into a new world. A strange, positive Hawaiian comes to his rescue through the concept of mei kealoha pauoli, "my love that lasts forever." George serves at the highest command levels of the Air Force and is tapped by a member of the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to lead a team that examines the manpower and organization of Headquarters, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. The secret study causes George to question his commitment to the way the war is being managed. He enters Vietnam a dedicated "hawk" and leaves with serious questions about his dedication. Travel with George from California to Hawaii to California to Nebraska to Washington, D.C., to Hawaii and Vietnam. Laugh, cry, believe.
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