Blue Skies, Green Hell, a thriller written by a bush pilot’s wife, is a riveting tale set in the 1950s when pioneers of the sky flew single-engine aircraft over unforgiving wilderness and impenetrable jungle in Venezuela. Marilyn and Frank live in a place called the last frontier on the Orinoco River where he establishes a multi-aircraft service that flies supplies and medicine to remote and inaccessible communities. Together they challenge the odds and take the exhilaration of flying to new heights. Their world is fierce weather with no weather reports, aircraft with limited range radios, and planes with six basic instruments. A search and rescue effort ends when they make a forced landing in no man’s land. A flight to Miami turns sour as their twin-engine C-46 conks out over the Caribbean. Best friends die in fiery crashes. A stone age Indian appears where he shouldn’t be. This is drama from the cockpit of vintage aircraft.

From beloved old favorites like Wrigley Field to new parks like San Francisco's PacBell Park, fans will adore these beautiful photo spreads, combined with memories and quotes from legendary players, coaches, managers, and fans. Also included are essential history, facts, statistics, and trivia for these 50 major league baseball stadiums.

Blue Skies, Green Hell, a thriller written by a bush pilot's wife, is a riveting tale set in the 1950s when pioneers of the sky flew single-engine aircraft over unforgiving wilderness and impenetrable jungle in Venezuela. Marilyn and Frank live in a place called the last frontier on the Orinoco River where he establishes a multiaircraft service that flies food, supplies and medicine to remote and inaccessible communities. Together they challenge the odds and take the exhilaration of flying to new heights. Their world is fierce weather with no weather reports, aircraft with limited range radios, and planes with six basic instruments. A search and rescue effort ends when they make a forced landing in no-man's-land. A flight to Miami turns sour as their twin-engine C-46 conks out over the Caribbean. Best friends die in fiery crashes. A stone age Indian appears where he shouldn't be. This is drama from the cockpit of vintage aircraft.

An interdisciplinary investigation into how colors vary in the eyes and minds of people across cultures worldwide The title of this volume and its accompanying exhibition at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt alludes to ancient Japanese poetry in which the sky is sometimes described as green and the grass as blue. The world is full of color no matter where one looks, but not every culture interprets the spectrum of shades in the same way, nor do individual people always see the same colors despite our physiological similarities. This publication highlights pieces from the museum's collection, ranging in origin from the Amazon to Tibet, as anthropological case studies in the exploration of color and the meanings ascribed to different hues. In concert with essays from the fields of philosophy, linguistics and physics, Green Sky, Blue Grassuncovers the complexity of human perception across the globe.

Book Guy is unique. It's a librarian's story of getting books into the hands of rural school children and people in isolated places in the Peace River country and up the Alaska Highway. The story also tells how the mobile service began 50 years ago and traces-not without humour-the remarkable efforts of successive true-grit librarians to overcome the obstacles of poor working conditions, severe cold and the hazards of dust and ice and muddy roads.

"As they flew along, a strange and violent wind began to blow. The trees on the shore bent almost to the ground. They felt the gale pulling at their hair; they clutched their hats and stuffed them under their arms to keep them from blowing away. Hetta's curly brown hair blew out til it was almost straight, flapping behind her. There were trees now on the riverbanks, sheltering from the blasts. The boat flew down the river faster and faster, carrying them towards Hannibal." This is a trip to the future, a future where the climate has changed, Earth's cities are destroyed and surviving civilizations of only the wealthy are protectively domed over. A world where a culture of tyranny exists under two moons and those who seek freedom from the autocratic system must live out on the plains, in tribes. Our heroes Omer and Hetta push forward against their adversaries - the ruling group of evil "Domistas." Their path is not always easy, frightening weather and panicked escapes unfold. Attacks from kidnappers and rats alter their hopeful plans - and require clever deceptions to continue on toward what they know is right. Will there ever be a sustainable society of peace? Will our heroes be defeated and cast out into an indefinitely enslaved existence? Find out what truly relevant lessons can be learned for the future of human kind in this hopeful and thoughtful adventure. "The Moons of Earth," a story of environmental collapse, follows the journey of two young adults who try to rebuild their lives and society. The novel is illustrated with the author's scratchboard drawings.