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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver-the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, BEAVERLAND is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversized role in American history and its future. She follows fur trappers who...
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Craft
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The processing of hides and skins is one of the oldest known crafts and cultural techniques. Today, tanning is done primarily with chemicals, but traditional tanning was done with fat, smoke, and plant extracts to make the hides durable and soft. This book teaches you the centuries-old art of easy-to-do, natural, inexpensive fat tanning with a few simple tools and limited space. Tanning with pure natural products leads to wonderful leather products...
5) Pelajes
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Fur introduces the earliest readers to unique mammal fur textures, colors, and patterns while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. High-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, photo labels, and strong visual references support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Fur includes tools for teachers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents,...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Why are humans and other mammals covered in hair, and why are there so many different types of it? Vivid photographs paired with a duo of quirky, illustrated hair guides serve to illuminate the fascinating facts about mammal hair: why it exists, what it's good for, and more. Readers will learn about different types of animal coats, such as fur and down, and explore the many different forms guard hairs take, such as the quills on a porcupine."--Amazon....
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Pongo, Perdita and their super-adorable puppies are in for thrills, hilarious spills and an epic action-packed adventure when they face off with Cruella De Vil, Disney's most fabulously outrageous villainess. When Cruella dognaps all of the Dalmatian puppies in London, brave animal heroes launch a daring plan to save all puppies from Cruella's clutches!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"If you could have any animal's coat, whose would you choose? What if you woke up one morning and discovered your body was covered in an animal's scales, feathers, or fur instead of your own skin? How would that change your life? What If You Had Animal Scales!? is the next imaginative book in Sandra Markle's popular What If You Had series. If you had a chinchilla's fur, you'd never need to worry about bug spray. If you had a hammerhead shark's scales,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats,...
12) Throne of grace: a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous tribes encountered by white explorers. Also in this volatile mix are the grizzled fur trappers and mountain men, waging war against...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade into Indian Country from the Great Lakes to the Columbia...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is deteriorating from a mysterious illness. Alarmed by the disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his regular caf�e with whom he is obsessed, he chases a series of clues throughout Berlin. The details of Lara's vanishing trigger flashbacks to his entanglement with Johannes Held, a physicist who, twenty-five years earlier, infiltrated an American research institute...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Provides a new look at Native nations and the economies and societies they built as well as a radically new understanding of the web of families, businesses, and personal empires that organized the North American West before the Civil War"--P. [4] of cover.
16) Coats
Author
Publisher
Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What animal has a coat like this? Little ones will love guessing which of their favorite animals belong to each coat in this question-and-answer title filled with bold text and bright photographs.
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