1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715564103321

Titolo

In Senate of the United States, February 28, 1831. Report on the blacksmiths' petition

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [publisher not identified], , 1831

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (61 pages) : tables

Collana

Senate document / 21st Congress, 2nd session. Senate ; ; no. 67

[United States congressional serial set ] ; ; [serial no. 204]

Altri autori (Persone)

HayneRobert Young <1791-1839> (Jacksonian (SC))

Soggetti

Blacksmiths

Foreign trade promotion

Foreign trade and employment

Hardware

Imports

Iron industry and trade

Steel industry and trade

Iron

Protectionism

Tariff

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813546603321

Autore

Cornwall Claudia Maria

Titolo

British Columbia in flames : stories from a blazing summer / / Claudia Cornwall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madeira Park, BC : , : Harbour Publishing, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-55017-895-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 pages)

Disciplina

363.37

Soggetti

Wildfires

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Map -- Introduction: In for one hell of a ride -- Sheridan Lake -- Chapter 1: We can't go south -- we can't go north -- Ashcroft -- Chapter 2: Get out, it's coming! -- Cache Creek -- Chapter 3: What's the name of your dentist? -- Chapter 4: We got out every hose and pump we had -- 16 Mile House -- Chapter 5: It's scary shit!! -- 100 Mile House -- Chapter 6: An empty house in an empty town -- Lac La Hache -- Chapter 7: Like a noose -- Quesnel -- Chapter 8: Five- or six-foot waves breaking over the top of our canoe -- Chapter 9: Prepare for no one and nothing to come -- Williams Lake -- Chapter 10: I can't answer messages fast enough -- Chapter 11: Evacuate, evacuate! -- Chapter 12: Go Sam, Go -- Hanceville-Riske Creek -- Chapter 13: Phenomenal heart come out -- Chapter 14: The fire draws everything toward it -- Chapter 15: But it came, it came, it came, it came, it came -- Chapter 16: You're going to die, you need to get out of here! -- Clinton -- Chapter 17: Oh fire just take me -- Chapter 18: I had to go over the mountain -- Chapter 19: Our neighbours were everything to us -- Pressy Lake-70 Mile House-Green Lake -- Chapter 20: What the hell was wrong with us? -- Chapter 21: Will you pick up Bear? -- Chapter 22: I could wrap a wet towel around my head, go out into the lake -- Sheridan Lake -- Chapter 23: It come in here with a vengeance -- Chapter 24: You get used to riding with flames -- Chapter 25: Let us conspire with the forests -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Index --



Photos.

Sommario/riassunto

A moving personal and journalistic account of wildfire season in BC.