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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
775 pages (large print), 40 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air. Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 21,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and...
Author
Publisher
Girl Friday Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young Ward Serrill arrived in Southeast Alaska in 1982, dispatched by his Seattle accounting firm to a remote native village to audit their new corporation. Within a year Serrill had ditched the job, with designs on forging another life up north, a new Labrador retriever puppy in tow. On the maiden voyage of their dogyak--a specially fitted kayak--Woody and Serrill rounded a point into a half-moon bay with rugged coastline. There, sixteen miles...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from that of red snapper? How the taste of a Fuji apple differs from a Spartan? For most of us, this is a difficult task: flavor remains a vague, undeveloped concept that we don't know enough about to describe - or appreciate - fully. In this delightful and compelling exploration of our most neglected sense, veteran science reporter Bob Holmes shows us just how much we're missing. Considering every...