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Author: John Leather
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408121611
Size: 28.46 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2013-11-07
Category: Sports & Recreation
Language: en
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Download PDF The Gaff Rig Handbook eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is the internationally regarded definitive handbook for anyone designing, building, rigging or sailing gaff rigged craft. It provides a fascinating insight into the design, history, techniques and developments of a rig which has evolved through the centuries. John Leather outlines the practical aspects of the masts, spars, sails, running and standing rigging, and contrasts the development of the gaff rig in Britain, America, Scandinavia and France. 'Regarded internationally as the definitive book for anyone designing, building, rigging or sailing a gaff-rigged vessel.' Kelvin Hughes 'The book's longevity says it all.' Water Craft

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Author: Laura De Barra
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
ISBN: 9781848272620
Size: 30.25 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2020-02-06
Category: House cleaning
Language: en
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Download PDF Gaff Goddess eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. How to handle the everyday problems we all encounter in our homes, from dripping taps, to hanging a frame, looking after white goods, and everythign inbetween.

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Author: Shan Correa
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 1561459933
Size: 42.64 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-03-21
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Gaff eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As Paul struggles to understand his family's livelihood, he learns that being a man has nothing to do with wielding the power to hurt people and animals. Paul Silva lives in a paradise—a little farm high in the hills of a lush, green island in Hawaii—where his disabled father makes a living by raising, training, and caring for roosters. But Paul has been sheltered from the harsh reality of the ties between the family business and the underworld of cockfighting. When a friend's older brother decides to initiate Paul into the macho culture of cockfighting, Paul is shocked by what he sees. Illegal drugs. Gambling. But worst of all is the spectacle in the cockpit. With razor-sharp blades—gaffs—attached to their heels, the birds ruthlessly attack each other in a bloody fight to the death. Sickened by the brutal scene, Paul vows to find a way to get his family out of the business altogether. Eventually Paul learns to meet the tests of making decisions in the real world, which is far from a paradise. Author Shan Correa brings to live the diverse and culture found in Hawaii, including Hawaiian Pidgin English, through this unique topic and engaging story.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alan D. Gaff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198213240X
Size: 70.99 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2021-05-18
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Lou Gehrig eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Lou Gehrig's memoir, originally published in newspaper columns, followed by a biographical essay by historian Alan D. Gaff.

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Author: Harry Johnson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803275799
Size: 58.26 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1994-01-01
Category: Sports & Recreation
Language: en
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Download PDF Standing The Gaff eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Harry "Steamboat" Johnson brought to early baseball great integrity and a pugnacious style. Toughness?being able to "stand the gaff"?was essential during his long career afs an umpire. From 1909 to 1935 Johnson umpired in exhibition games andøminor leagues (except for the 1914 season in the National League) from Los Angeles to Toronto. When fans screamed "Kill the umpire!" he responded he'd rather die on a baseball field than anywhere else. With disarming directness and humor, Steamboat Johnson tells what it was like umpiring for various leagues (the wild Western was nicknamed "101 Ranch"), being on the road (lonely because umpires could not fraternize with players), and getting into all sorts of jams (he once took on Ty Cobb in a 1922 exhibition game between the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals). "Standing the gaff" meant surviving the wrath of players?and of fans, who hurled insults and pop bottles. After a game, Steamboat would be escorted to his hotel by the police. Johnson instructs would-be umpires, answers questions from fans, and names the best players he ever saw. Until now, Standing the Gaff, originally published in 1935, has been hard to find. This Bison Book edition makes it available to buffs and social historians and those curious about baseball in its rowdy adolescence. In a new introduction, Larry R. Gerlach tells more about Steamboat's life.

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Book Detail:
Author: George H. Otis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 50.55 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1984
Category: United States
Language: en
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Download PDF The Second Wisconsin Infantry eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The aim of this book is to give correct historical data of the marches, battles, skirmishes, etc., in which the Second Regiment was engaged.--Provided by author.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jackie Gaff
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403446763
Size: 24.32 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2003
Category: Olympic games (Ancient)
Language: en
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Download PDF Ancient Olympics eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Provides an overview of how the Olympics began in ancient Greece and a look at each day's festivities.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alan D. Gaff
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253212948
Size: 25.11 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1999-02-22
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF On Many A Bloody Field eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. On Many a Bloody Field follows one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations - Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade, in a vivid account of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Alan D. Gaff follows the men from recruitment through mustering out, from the tedium of camp to the excitement of battle. Marches and battles are described in detail, but Gaff also devotes close attention to how the war affected individuals, both physically and emotionally. Formed into a brigade with the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin, these Indiana soldiers fought their first real battle at Brawner Farm. Over four difficult years they fought on many a bloody field: Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Fitzhugh Crossing, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Laurel Hill, North Anna River, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Weldon Railroad. With meticulous care, Alan Gaff recounts the experience of war from the soldier's perspective, often in the words of the men themselves. This intimate portrait of men at war is an important contribution to the literature of the Civil War.

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Book Detail:
Author: George Kimball
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147431
Size: 28.68 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2014-07-24
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF A Corporal S Story eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his military service, always with a newspaperman’s eye for detail and respect for the facts, relating only what he’d witnessed firsthand and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in A Corporal’s Story, Kimball’s writings form a unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jackie Gaff
Publisher: Salariya Publishers
ISBN: 9781905087174
Size: 64.85 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2005-11
Category: America
Language: en
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Download PDF Christopher Columbus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Dramatic dialogue and vivid illustrations relate the epic story of Christopher Columbus, an intrepid explorer and master navigator who, in 1492 set sail from Spain and headed into unknown seas, in search of a trade route to the East. Instead he landed in the Americas, opening up the New World to European colonists.

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Size: 62.68 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2014
Category: Experimental poetry, American
Language: en
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Download PDF Gaff eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Simper
Publisher: Fountain Press, Limited
ISBN: 9780852426197
Size: 12.54 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1979-01-01
Category: Gaff riggers
Language: en
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Download PDF Gaff Sail eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jackie Gaff
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781403454560
Size: 15.91 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2005
Category: Egypt
Language: en
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Download PDF Ancient Egypt eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. LIfe in ancient Egypt is revealed through the excavations of historical sites and the objects uncovered.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alan D. Gaff
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135854
Size: 69.95 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2004
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Bayonets In The Wilderness eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "In this military history, Gaff documents the British and French influence, the famed battle at Fallen Timbers, and the Treaty of Greeneville, which ended hostilities in the region. His account brings to light alliances between Indian forces and the British military, demonstrating that British troops still conducted operations on American soil long after the supposed end of the American Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alan D. Gaff
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806136967
Size: 16.70 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2005
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Blood In The Argonne eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this unique history of the “Lost Battalion” of World War I, Alan D. Gaff tells for the first time the story of the 77th Division from the perspective of the soldiers in the ranks. On October 2, 1918, Maj. Charles W. Whittlesey led the 77th Division in a successful attack on German defenses in the Argonne Forest of northeastern France. His unit, comprised of men of a wide mix of ethnic backgrounds from New York City and the western states, was not a battalion nor was it ever “lost,” but once a newspaper editor applied the term “lost battalion” to the episode, it stuck. Gaff draws from new, unimpeachable sources—such as sworn testimony by soldiers who survived the ordeal—to correct the myths and legends and to reveal what really happened in the Argonne Forest during early October 1918.

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Book Detail:
Author: Project on Institutional Renewal through the Improvement of Teaching
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 31.51 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1976
Category: College teaching
Language: en
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Download PDF Resource Notebook eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Clara L. Gaff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195369823
Size: 24.86 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2010
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Status: Available

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Download PDF Family Communication About Genetics eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Psychology and Evidence-based Decision-making, School of Psychology, University of Sydney --

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Book Detail:
Author: Alan D. Gaff
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574416693
Size: 57.46 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017-06-15
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Ordered West eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. During the Civil War, Charles Curtis served in the 5th United States Infantry on the New Mexico and Arizona frontier. He spent his years from 1862 to 1865 on garrison duty, interacting with Native Americans, both hostile and friendly. Years after his service and while president of Norwich University, Curtis wrote an extensive memoir of his time in the Southwest. This memoir was serialized and published in a New England newspaper and so remained unknown, until now. In addition to his keen observations of daily life as a soldier serving in the American Southwest, Curtis’s reminiscences include extensive descriptions of Arizona and New Mexico and detail his encounters with Indians, notable military figures, eccentrics, and other characters from the Old West. Among these many stories readers will find Curtis’s accounts of meeting Kit Carson, the construction of Fort Whipple, and expeditions against the Navajo and Apache. In Ordered West, editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff have pulled together the pieces of Curtis’s story and assembled them into a single narrative. Annotated with footnotes identifying people, places, and events, the text is lavishly illustrated throughout with pictures of key figures and maps. A detailed biographical overview of Curtis and how his story came to print is also included.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alan D. Gaff
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574417770
Size: 10.20 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2019-10-15
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF From The Halls Of The Montezumas eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. James L. Freaner is one of the most important unknown Americans in our nation’s history. Freaner gained fame throughout the country during the Mexican War while covering General Winfield Scott’s campaign. As one of America’s first war correspondents, Freaner’s letters appeared in newspapers under the byline “Mustang,” and his reports from the front included information unavailable elsewhere. Among Freaner’s scoops were the publication of complete casualty lists (long before official reports became public), detailed battle descriptions, and observations on postwar Mexico. Despite his widespread fame as a reporter, Freaner’s greatest contribution to the United States came during a conversation with Nicholas P. Trist, negotiator of the peace treaty with Mexico. After Trist had passed along an outrageous proposal from the Mexican commissioners, he was recalled, but Freaner convinced Trist to ignore the order and begin a new round of negotiations. Trist resumed, concluded the war, and added California, Nevada, Utah, and other territory to a growing country. This acquisition was second in size only to the Louisiana Purchase and was a direct result of James Freaner persuading Trist to brazenly conclude a treaty when he had no authority to do so. From the Halls of the Montezumas is a complete compilation of Freaner’s Mexican War reporting. Editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff have annotated the text with footnotes identifying people, places, and events, and also have added illustrations of key figures and maps. They supplement Freaner’s dispatches with biographical information that ranges from his early career to his journey to the gold fields of California and his untimely death at the hands of Indians in California in 1852.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jackie Gaff
Publisher: Kingfisher
ISBN: 9780753465264
Size: 33.75 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011-03-01
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Language: en
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Download PDF I Wonder Why Horses Wear Shoes eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. With detailed, lively answers to a host of fascinating questions, I Wonder Why Horses Wear Shoes is a perfect introduction to the world of horses. Readers will learn the parts of a horse's body, read about the Pony Express, find out how to mount and dismount, and much more in this compact paperback edition.

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