2005, ISBN: 9781843543015

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Lebanon, PA, USA: Applied Arts, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 42 pages b/w photos - ex libris sticker on title page - A pictorial presentation of the period when Penn&… Mehr…

Lebanon, PA, USA: Applied Arts, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 42 pages b/w photos - ex libris sticker on title page - A pictorial presentation of the period when Penn's Woods was our nation's leading lumbering state. - Trees have always been Pennsylvania's most valuable renewable natural resource. The settlers who cut down the forests to clear the land for agriculture also viewed them as an obstacle. By 1850, millions of acres had been cleared for Pennsylvania's 128,000 farms. Pennsylvanians put their seemingly inexhaustible supply of trees to many uses. They used them to build their houses and fences, to cook their food and heat their homes. Pennsylvania was also rich with iron ore. Between 1760 and 1895, more than four million acres of forest were harvested two to four times to feed the charcoal furnaces of Pennsylvania's iron industry. When the outbreak of the Civil War unleashed an unprecedented demand for the wood needed to build new railroads and fortifications, the nation turned to the forests of Pennsylvania, where "the trees came down like tall grass before a giant scythe. In the decades before the Civil War, enterprising loggers headed to the white pine and hemlock forests of the Susquehanna. Each year they floated millions of logs down to the sawmills at towns like Lock Haven and markerWilliamsport, which by the 1870s was known as the "Lumber Capital of the World." By the late 1800s, railroads were using more than 15 percent of the nation's timber supply. Each mile of track required 2,500 wooden railroad ties, which had to be constantly replaced. The coal mines, too, used billions of board feet of timber - more than the Pennsylvania forests could ever hope to provide - to prop up walls and ceilings. In the 1860s, a new pulpwood industry emerged, using trees unsuitable for lumber to make paper. Then came the wood chemical industry, which used the forests to produce alcohol, acetate, charcoal and tar. Railroad logging, made possible by powerful geared locomotives, including those manufactured by the markerClimax Manufacturing Company of Corry, PA, led to more intensive cutting, as trains carried portable sawmills deep into the mountains and hauled out the logs on their newly laid tracks. The large capital investment in equipment and track led operators to cut down every tree they could to regain their investment and turn a profit. At the turn of the century, hemlock baron Frank Henry Goodyear's sawmills at Austin and Galeton produced nearly a million feet of lumber each day. By 1900, Pennsylvania had lost more than 60 percent of its forests. On the barren landscapes the loggers left behind, rains washed soil into the streams, and forest fires roared through the dead stumps, dry branches, scrub brush and saplings, devastating some 350,000 acres each year. Traveling through what the first state forest commissioner Joseph Rothrock called the "Pennsylvania Desert," a U.S. Geological surveyor reported "there are few places in the East where the natural beauties of mountain scenery and the natural resources of timber lands have been destroyed to the extent that has taken place in northern Pennsylvania., Applied Arts, 1969, 2.5, Atlantic Books, London, 2005. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 'I was born in a sideboard.' So begins Roberta Taylor's bittersweet memoir of her early years, a book that proves beyond doubt that real life is stranger than any soap opera.It's Boxing Day, 1956 in East London, and it's freezing, inside and out. Roberta, aged eight, sits in the kitchen in her overcoat, determined to make herself invisible, watching the shenanigans of the grown-ups. Her granny, Mary, reigns over the house with an iron will and an eye to the main chance. Roberta's cousin is on her hands and knees at the parlour grate, trying to retrieve grandad's dentures from the coals, dragging her coat in the dust. It's too cold to hang it up by the front door. Besides, Granny Mary makes no exceptions when it comes to the occasional light thieving. Aunt Doll learns that the hard way. Not even a padlock kept Mary from stealing Doll's wedding presents, although nobody can understand how she got the back off the wardrobe without Doll noticing.Too Many Mothers is a portrait of an embattled extended family at war with itself and the outside world. From petty crime to pet monkeys, tender romance to shameless emotional blackmail, illegitimacy, adoption and even murder, Roberta Taylor has written a kaleidoscopic and unforgettable memoir of her family and her early life. 245 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 184354301X. ISBN/EAN: 9781843543015. Inventory No: 243755. . 9781843543015, Atlantic Books, 2005, 3<

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Yearling, 2014-09-09. Paperback. Like New., Yearling, 2014-09-09, 5, Atlantic Books, London, 2005. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 'I was born in a sideboard.' So begins Rob… Mehr…

Yearling, 2014-09-09. Paperback. Like New., Yearling, 2014-09-09, 5, Atlantic Books, London, 2005. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 'I was born in a sideboard.' So begins Roberta Taylor's bittersweet memoir of her early years, a book that proves beyond doubt that real life is stranger than any soap opera.It's Boxing Day, 1956 in East London, and it's freezing, inside and out. Roberta, aged eight, sits in the kitchen in her overcoat, determined to make herself invisible, watching the shenanigans of the grown-ups. Her granny, Mary, reigns over the house with an iron will and an eye to the main chance. Roberta's cousin is on her hands and knees at the parlour grate, trying to retrieve grandad's dentures from the coals, dragging her coat in the dust. It's too cold to hang it up by the front door. Besides, Granny Mary makes no exceptions when it comes to the occasional light thieving. Aunt Doll learns that the hard way. Not even a padlock kept Mary from stealing Doll's wedding presents, although nobody can understand how she got the back off the wardrobe without Doll noticing.Too Many Mothers is a portrait of an embattled extended family at war with itself and the outside world. From petty crime to pet monkeys, tender romance to shameless emotional blackmail, illegitimacy, adoption and even murder, Roberta Taylor has written a kaleidoscopic and unforgettable memoir of her family and her early life. 245 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 184354301X. ISBN/EAN: 9781843543015. Inventory No: 243755. . 9781843543015, Atlantic Books, 2005, 3<

2006, ISBN: 9781843543015

London England: Atlantic Books. Paperback. This book is the remarkable story of Roberta Taylor's early life and the extended family that brought her up. Nanny Mary was the wily matria… Mehr…

London England: Atlantic Books. Paperback. This book is the remarkable story of Roberta Taylor's early life and the extended family that brought her up. Nanny Mary was the wily matriarch who would do almost anything to survive, including stealing from her seven children. Her nerve, humour and sheet determination were also the glue that held the family together. Roberta was born to a father Roberta's mother adored, but whom she herself would never know. In this memoir, Roberta Taylor travels to the emotional heart of her childhood to reveal the lives led by the men and women who influenced her most in her formative years. This book is a portrait of an embattled family at war with itself and the outside world. From petty crime to pet monkeys, tender romance to emitional blackmaikl, illegitimacy, adoption and even murder. Roberta Taylor has written a bittersweet and ultimately unforgettable memoir of her early life purchasw date insid. 244 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Paperback Edition. 2006., Atlantic Books, 2006, 4<

2005, ISBN: 9781843543015

Atlantic Books, London, 2005. Medium Trade Paperback. Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 244 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Atlantic Books, London, 2005. *** CONDITION: This book is in go… Mehr…

Atlantic Books, London, 2005. Medium Trade Paperback. Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 244 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Atlantic Books, London, 2005. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Reading creases to spine. Severe spine lean. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: "Too Many Mothers" is the remarkable story of Roberta Taylor's early life, and the extended family that brought her up. Roberta travels to the emotional heart of her childhood to reveal the lives led by the men and women who influenced her most in her formative years. "Too Many Mothers" is a portrait of an embattled family at war with itself and the outside world. From petty crime to pet monkeys, tender romance to emotional blackmail, illegitimacy, adoption and even murder, Roberta Taylor has written a bittersweet and memoir of her early life. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 184354301X. ISBN/EAN: 9781843543015. Inventory No: 11040087.. 9781843543015, Atlantic Books, 2005, 2.5<

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