Fighting on his side are a handful of his tenants: Cappy Fells, tough and fearless head of the fishing fleet; Lancy and her burleycue strippers; Ya Valkun, political refugee turned restauranteuse; and Dayton Frederick, the girl who won’t get out of his hair and whom he can’t put out of his mind.

We were led to visualize the loss of this navigatability through the use of its waters for irrigation.

Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady's-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves.

Franz Kuhnert, 18881 2.1 WHY ASTRONOMICAL FORCING? In the 1840s, James Croll assumed that the ice ages were driven by changes in the orbit of the Earth. The astronomical origin was likewise taken as natural by Milutin Milankovitch,[…]