Author: Candida Lawrence
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
Keywords: writhing, reeling
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 1994-03-31
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1878448609
ISBN-13: 9781878448606

Author: Fen Montaigne
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffi
Keywords: russia, angler, american, reeling
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-04-15
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 031220809X
ISBN-13: 9780312208097

"To some foreigners," writes American journalist Fen Montaigne, "Russia was anathema, a place grim beyond description. But to others, such as myself, Russia was an affliction, an incurable habit. From the very beginning, I was drawn to her dilapidated landscape, inhabited by people who knew hardship as intimately as we might a member of the family." After completing a stint as Moscow bureau chief for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1996, Montaigne resolves to feed his habit in a somewhat unorthodox manner: a three-month fly-fishing expedition that will cross 10 time zones from west to east and co

Authors:Joseph Needham, Dieter Kuhn,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: technology, part, textile, spinning, reeling, chemical, civilisation, china, volume, chemistry, science
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 1988-07-29
List price: $281.99
ISBN-10: 0521320216
ISBN-13: 9780521320214

This study, the first of two parts which will give a comprehensive account of Chinese textiles and textile technology, deals with the evolution of bast fibre spinning and silk-reeling in the history of China. These operations are the basic techniques in the production of yarn and thread, pre-requisite to weaving, and any study of Chinese textile technology must start with the raw material obtained from fibre plants such as hemp, ramie, jute, cotton, etc, and silk reeled off from cocoons of the domestic silkworm. Here for the first time in a publication outside China, the raw material, and the