Download or read book A House in the Mountains written by Caroline Moorehead and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dramatic, heartbreaking and sweeping in scope." —Wall Street Journal The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the "moving finale" (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet—the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against Italy’s fascist regime during World War II. In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born. Four young Piedmontese women—Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca—living secretly in the mountains surrounding Turin, risked their lives to overthrow Italy’s authoritarian government. They were among the thousands of Italians who joined the Partisan effort to help the Allies liberate their country from the German invaders and their Fascist collaborators. What made this partisan war all the more extraordinary was the number of women—like this brave quartet—who swelled its ranks. The bloody civil war that ensued pitted neighbor against neighbor, and revealed the best and worst in Italian society. The courage shown by the partisans was exemplary, and eventually bound them together into a coherent fighting force. But the death rattle of Mussolini’s two decades of Fascist rule—with its corruption, greed, and anti-Semitism—was unrelentingly violent and brutal. Drawing on a rich cache of previously untranslated sources, prize-winning historian Caroline Moorehead illuminates the experiences of Ada, Frida, Silvia, and Bianca to tell the little-known story of the women of the Italian partisan movement fighting for freedom against fascism in all its forms, while Europe collapsed in smoldering ruins around them.
Download or read book A Home in the Mountains Journal written by Cs Creations and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal with 150 ruled pages awaits your writing pleasure. You can use it to record your hopes and dreams, express your gratitude, to keep a bucket list, as a daily diary, or to jot down your "To-Do" lists. The possibilities are endless and the choice is all yours. Enjoy!
Download or read book Reading the Mountains of Home written by John Elder and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
Download or read book John of the Mountains written by John Muir and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir, America's pioneer conservationist and father of the national park system, was a man of considerable literary talent. As he explored the wilderness of the western part of the United States for decades, he carried notebooks with him, narrating his wanderings, describing what he saw, and recording his scientific researches. This reprint of his journals, edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe in 1938 and long out of print, offers an intimate picture of Muir and his activities during a long and productive period of his life. The sixty extant journals and numerous notes in this volume were written from 1867 to 1911. They start seven years after the time covered in The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Muir's uncompleted autobiography. The earlier journals capture the essence of the Sierra Nevada and Alaska landscapes. The changing appearance of the Sierras from Sequoia north and beyond the Yosemites enthralled Muir, and the first four years of the journals reveal his dominating concern with glacial action. The later notebooks reflect his changes over the years, showing a mellowing of spirit and a deep concern for human rights. Like all his writings, the journals concentrate on his observations in the wilderness. His devotion to his family, his many warm friendships, and his many-sided public life are hardly mentioned. Very little is said about the quarter-century battle for national parks and forest reserves. The notebooks record, in language fuller and freer than his more formal writings, the depth of his love and transcendental feeling for the wilderness. The rich heritage of his native Scotland and the unconscious music of the poetry of Burns, Milton, and the King James Bible permeate the language of his poetic fancy. In his later life, Muir attempted to sort out these journals and, at the request of friends, published a few extracts. A year after his death in 1914, his literary executor and biographer, William Frederick Badè, also published episodes from the journals. Linnie Marsh Wolfe set out to salvage the best of his writings still left unpublished in 1938 and has thus added to our understanding of the life and thought of a complex and fascinating American figure.
Download or read book Flat Rock Journal written by Ken Carey and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback--"A Thoreau-voiced memoir of a day off spent recharging the author's batteries by his lonesome in the Ozark woods. . . . A model of moss-velvet nature writing, quite possibly a classic" (Kirkus Reviews). Carey is the author of The Starseed Transmissions.
Download or read book Ain t it Hell written by Edward John Hart and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of historical fiction based on the life of Bill Peyto, an outdoorsman and adventurer in the Canadian Rockies near Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Download or read book Journal of a Mountain Man written by James Clyman and published by Scurlock Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These journals preserve, in his own homey words, James Clyman's experiences on the plains and in the mountains during the heyday of the American fur trade and during the peak of emigration to Oregon and California. The events Clyman recorded were momentous. He was a member of Jedediah Smith's first brigade, which discovered South Pass and opened the Intermountain West to the beaver hunters. Crossing the country during the great migration of 1846, he encountered the Donner party and gave them sound advice they tragically ignored. "Journal of a Mountain Man "is especially valuable, says editor Linda Hasselstrom. The journals are "conspicuously sober and meticulous Clyman shows the mental bent of a surveyor: he scrupulously takes measurements and notes down facts Alongside the vivid but exaggerated sketches some mountain men have left us, we are lucky to have the record of one man who was a keen, thorough, and precise observer."
Download or read book Journal of My Journey Over the Mountains written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal of George Washington was begun when he was one month over 16 years of age. It is his own daily record of observations during his first remunerated employment.
Download or read book Home Is Beyond the Mountains written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Download or read book Moving Mountains written by Compiled By Barbour Staff and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each page of this lovely journal offers challenge and devotional inspiration for your soul, while related scripture selections provide opportunities to reflect on the truth of God's unchanging Word.
Download or read book Mountains and Molehills Or Recollections of a Burnt Journal written by Frank Marryat and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Marryat (1826-1855) left England for California via Panama with a manservant and three hunting dogs in 1850, hoping to find material for a book like his earlier Borneo. On his return to England in 1853, Marryat married and brought his bride back to California that same year. Yellow fever contracted on shipboard forced him to cut the trip short and return to England where he died two years later. Mountains and molehills (1855) is a sportsman-tourist's chronicle of California in the early 1850s: hunting, horse races, bear and bull fights. It also includes an Englishman's bemused comments on social life in San Francisco, Stockton, and the gold fields.
Download or read book Home is Where the Mountains Are written by Dt Productions and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect hikers notebook/journal/diary for you, your family member or your friend! This unique and beautiful looking notebook is a great gift for anyone! The perfect way to: Take notes Celebrate your life Make your shopping list 'TO DO' things Reminders Goals and Habits This blank lined and personalized hiking journal comes in a matte finish, with 108 pages of blank lines. It comes with a white interior and dark lines.
Download or read book Have the Mountains Fallen written by Jeffrey B. Lilley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from two Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay was banished as a traitor from his native home land. Chinghiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, writing novels about the lives of everyday Soviet citizens but mourning a mystery that might never be solved. While both came from small villages in the beautiful mountainous countryside, they found themselves caught on opposite sides of the Cold War struggle between world superpowers. Altay became the voice of democracy on Radio Liberty, while Aitmatov rose through the ranks of Soviet politics. Yet just as they seemed to be pulled apart in the political turmoil, they found their lives intersecting in moving and surprising ways. Have the Mountains Fallen? traces the lives of these two men as they confronted the full threat and legacy of the Soviet empire. Through personal and intersecting narratives of loss, love, and longing for a homeland forever changed, a clearer picture emerges of the experience of the Cold War from the other side.
Download or read book Home Is Where the Mountains Are written by Adventure Journal Books and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to beat time spent creating your personal adventure in the great outdoors. So many new memories, such unrepeatable experiences shared with your family and closest friends. So why let those precious times be lost forever? Now you can permanently record every precious moment and capture each memory for a lifetime in your very own Adventure Journal Book! Find the cover motto to suit your next adventure - every one is available in your choice of six rustic BoHo fire-branded styles. Inside every large format 8" x 10" soft cover paperback book you'll discover: Over 120 beautifully designed pre-formatted pages make it a breeze to track your activities and stay organized before, during, and after every adventure! Plenty of space to record your favorite memories as well as important information such as campground name, site number, reservations, amenities, hiking journal pages, activity lists and much, much more! Click the 'Look Inside' link above the cover photo to see every page style that you'll rush to fill out! Available in hundreds of designs and styles, to suit every adventurer. Click the 'Add to Cart button' to claim your future memories, and start your next adventure today!
Download or read book Home Is Where the Mountains Are written by Adventure Journal Books and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to beat time spent creating your personal adventure in the great outdoors. So many new memories, such unrepeatable experiences shared with your family and closest friends. So why let those precious times be lost forever? Now you can permanently record every precious moment and capture each memory for a lifetime in your very own Adventure Journal Book! Find the cover motto to suit your next adventure - every one is available in your choice of six rustic BoHo fire-branded styles. Inside every large format 8" x 10" soft cover paperback book you'll discover: Over 120 beautifully designed pre-formatted pages make it a breeze to track your activities and stay organized before, during, and after every adventure! Plenty of space to record your favorite memories as well as important information such as campground name, site number, reservations, amenities, hiking journal pages, activity lists and much, much more! Click the 'Look Inside' link above the cover photo to see every page style that you'll rush to fill out! Available in hundreds of designs and styles, to suit every adventurer. Click the 'Add to Cart button' to claim your future memories, and start your next adventure today!
Download or read book Home Is Where the Mountains Are written by Adventure Journal Books and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to beat time spent creating your personal adventure in the great outdoors. So many new memories, such unrepeatable experiences shared with your family and closest friends. So why let those precious times be lost forever? Now you can permanently record every precious moment and capture each memory for a lifetime in your very own Adventure Journal Book! Find the cover motto to suit your next adventure - every one is available in your choice of six rustic BoHo fire-branded styles. Inside every large format 8" x 10" soft cover paperback book you'll discover: Over 120 beautifully designed pre-formatted pages make it a breeze to track your activities and stay organized before, during, and after every adventure! Plenty of space to record your favorite memories as well as important information such as campground name, site number, reservations, amenities, hiking journal pages, activity lists and much, much more! Click the 'Look Inside' link above the cover photo to see every page style that you'll rush to fill out! Available in hundreds of designs and styles, to suit every adventurer. Click the 'Add to Cart button' to claim your future memories, and start your next adventure today!
Download or read book Home Is Where the Mountains Are written by Adventure Journal Books and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to beat time spent creating your personal adventure in the great outdoors. So many new memories, such unrepeatable experiences shared with your family and closest friends. So why let those precious times be lost forever? Now you can permanently record every precious moment and capture each memory for a lifetime in your very own Adventure Journal Book! Find the cover motto to suit your next adventure - every one is available in your choice of six rustic BoHo fire-branded styles. Inside every large format 8" x 10" soft cover paperback book you'll discover: Over 120 beautifully designed pre-formatted pages make it a breeze to track your activities and stay organized before, during, and after every adventure! Plenty of space to record your favorite memories as well as important information such as campground name, site number, reservations, amenities, hiking journal pages, activity lists and much, much more! Click the 'Look Inside' link above the cover photo to see every page style that you'll rush to fill out! Available in hundreds of designs and styles, to suit every adventurer. Click the 'Add to Cart button' to claim your future memories, and start your next adventure today!
