Author: Barry, James P.

GEORGIAN BAY: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.

By: Barry, James P.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto / Erin, Stoddart / Boston Mills : 1992

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 31003

ISBN-13: 9781550460629

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, square (11 3/4" H x 11 3/4" D). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, maps. "This is the story of the once mighty Huron nation's tragic collapse, the aftermath of long battles against hostile tribes, disease and conversion by French missionaries. It is the story of the first white settlers' struggle to raise crops on the rugged Canadian Shield. Later, lumbering boomed and for decades the early mills flourished. The railroad reached the Bay in the mid-1800s, and fortunate depot towns prospered. Steamers and schooners brought transportation and commerce to previousl...
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NAKED CAME THE MANATEE. UNCORRECTED PROOF.

By: Hiaasen, Carl; Leonard, Elmore; Barry, Dave; Hall, James W.; Buchanan, Edna; Standiford, Les; Levine, Paul; Antoni, Brian; Due, Tanaanarive; Dufresne, John; Hendricks, Vicki; Hospital, Carolina; Mayerson, Evelyn.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, [1996], Uncorrected proof for limited distribution.

Seller ID: 11056

200 pp, 8vo, soft cover. Uncorrected proof. "In November 1995, a baker's dozen of Florida's finest writers began a serial novel for 'The Miami Herald's Topic' magazine, one writer passing the completed chapters to the next, and with each chapter, the excitement grew...a raucously funny, intricately suspenseful story of intrigue, murder, double-cross, and even love, a novel populated by an extraordinary cast of reporters, ciminals, revolutionaries, voluptuaries, hitmen, policemen, the peripatitic ex-president of the United States, and the Bearded One himself, Fidel Castro..." Interior - cle...
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OUT OF THE BLUE: THE ROLE OF LUCK IN AIR WARFARE 1917-1966.

By: Lucas, Laddie, ed. (K.R. vand er Spuy, James Byford McCudden, Raymond Chance, P.S. Engelbach, A.A.N. Breckon, R.T. Partridge, C.R. Caldwell, David J. Shannon, Charles Barry, John H. Moutray, R.A. Percy, K.S. Batchelor,

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Grafton : 1987

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 25312

ISBN-13: 9780586070888

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

542 pp, 7" H. B&w drawings. "Beginning in 1917 with Lord Balfour's miraculous safe landing after ejection from his crushed biplane, (this) is an extraordinary compilation of lucky escapes, own goals and near-misses by both famous and unknown war pilots. Captain Len Trent VC tells us how luck saved his life in the legendary Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944. Fighter pilot Yutaka Yokota, who volunteered as a human torpedo in the Pacific, recalls how mechanical trouble stopped him making the supreme sacrifice. And an Australian gunner tells the intriguing tale of his clairvoyant mongrel. ...
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Author: Barry, James P.

GEORGIAN BAY: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.

NAKED CAME THE MANATEE. UNCORRECTED PROOF.

OUT OF THE BLUE: THE ROLE OF LUCK IN AIR WARFARE 1917-1966.