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Porcher's Creek

Lives between the Tides

By: John Leland

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A thanksgiving and lament for life on the South Carolina coast "Columbus knew no greater thrill than I, a ten-year-old discovering new creeks and branches and islands and mainland hideaways....I resolved to make my living as an explorer and said so in school when we were all asked what we planned to do upon our growing up." John Leland lived a Huckleberry Finn sort of boyhood that most children would envy. A fifth-generation lowcountry native, he grew up fishing, swimming, and hunting arrowheads on a tidal creek just north of Charleston, South Carolina. With admirable freedom, he poled his bateau through the maze of oyster banks and the tangle of salt waterways known as Porcher's Creek. He spent years learning where the conchs congregated, where the clams kept secret rendezvous, and which hole hid the sweetest crabs. He became a naturalist by studying heron, frogs, and porpoises. Leland's existence was so intertwined with Porcher's Creek that he lived, slept, and ate by its tides and seasons—until exiled by family misfortune and suburban encroachment. Leland combines nature writing and reminiscence with a heartfelt examination of change along the South Carolina coast. He celebrates Porcher's Creek as a watery refuge that links him to his childhood and ancestry, weaving together his family's story with that of the creek. He chronicles both the geographic dispersal of his family and the abandonment of traditional lowcountry ways of life. Leland takes his readers back to a time not so long ago, before golf courses, concrete, and speedboats transformed Porcher's Creek. With eloquence and humor, he dissects the life histories of its creatures—fiddler crabs, alligators, marsh hens, and more—and threads through the narrative of his own life history. On the surface a nature-lover's elegy, Porcher's Creek is in fact Leland's treatise on mankind's ambiguous place in the natural world.

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131

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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164336121X

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9781643361215

Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions

By: Linda Wilson,Leland Rockstraw

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Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions

By: Linda Wilson,Leland Rockstraw

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394

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826106692

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9780826106698

A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern North America

By: Leland W. Pollock

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A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern North America

By: Leland W. Pollock

At last a guide to fish as well as invertebrates with profusely illustrated keys and the most recent terminology! It is not only practical but authoritative as well. A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern North America features Leland Pollock's innovative, user-friendly keys that circumvent many of the difficulties of traditional identification systems. Pollock's keys offer choices among distinctive attributes of the specimen. Results are compared to all variations found in the region's fauna, using a neatly displayed tabular form accompanied by many line drawings.

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388

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Rutgers University Press

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0813523990

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9780813523996

Choosing Equality

Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience

By: Robert L. Hayman,Leland Ware

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Choosing Equality

Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience

By: Robert L. Hayman,Leland Ware

Examines the desegregation experience, with a focus on the impact of the Supreme Court's decisions from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, through Parents Involved v. Seattle School District in 2007. Assesses desegregation in Delaware, one of the states involved in the original Brown litigation"--Provided by publisher.

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408

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Penn State Press

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0271048034

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9780271048031

The Mescalero Apaches

By: Charles Leland Sonnichsen

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The Mescalero Apaches

By: Charles Leland Sonnichsen

Although Frederick Webb Hodge once remarked that the members of the Eastern Apache tribe called the Mescaleros were "never regarded as so warlike" as the Apaches of Arizona, their history clearly belies that statement. The record is one of hardship and oppression alternating with wars of revenge. They were friendly to the Spaniards until victimized by them. They were also friendly to the Americans until they were betrayed again. For three hundred years they fought the Spaniards and Mexicans. For forty more they fought the Americans, before subsiding into a long period of lethargy and discouragement. Only since 1930 have they made real progress. In the early days their principal range was between the Río Grande and the Pecos in New Mexico, but it extended also into the Staked Plains and southward into Mexico. They moved about freely, wintering on the Río Grande or farther south, ranging the buffalo plains in the summer, following the sun and the food supply. They owned nothing and everything. Now they are in a precarious economic condition, but at least they are American citizens and still own their reservation in the Tularosa country of New Mexico. Their children are beginning to go away to college and prepare themselves for leadership, and while in many ways they have not bridged the gap between their old life and the new, they have made amazing progress. Their story is told here from the earliest records to the present day, from the Indian's point of view. Cruel and revengeful as these Indians were at times, they always had more than sufficient provocation, and a catalog of the sins committed against them is revealing, even appalling, to a white reader.

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356

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806116153

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9780806116150

Sinister House

By: Leland Hall

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Sinister House

By: Leland Hall

Leland Hall (1883-1957) was the author of "Sinister House" and "They Seldom Speak.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434455483

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9781434455482

Book's by Leland HARDEN

Porcher's Creek

Porcher's Creek

Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions

Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions

A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern North America

A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern North America

Choosing Equality

Choosing Equality

The Mescalero Apaches

The Mescalero Apaches

Sinister House

Sinister House

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