Download or read book Called Away by a Mountain Spirit written by Gregory McCann and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the accounts of three expeditions into the interior of Virachey National Park in Ratanakiri Province of Northeastern Cambodia, as well as an excursion into the forests of Mondulkiri Province. The author and his Khmer-Lao and indigenous guides penetrate the remote canyons near the Laos border, a lost world of tropical jungles and remote grasslands that are known only to a handful of poachers and loggers. This book also describes the animist tribes who live on the park's periphery, including the Brao, Kreung, Tampuan and Bunong highlanders. This work of non-fiction is also concerned with the endangered wildlife that persists within the park's boundaries, such as tigers, clouded leopards, leopards, Asiatic elephants, gibbons, douc langurs, hornbills, and much more. For those interested in the natural history and indigenous cultures of Cambodia and Southeast Asia -as well as the current threats to the region- this book will be of interest.
Download or read book Hawai i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture written by Victor H. Mair and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources—all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume—of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century. They take into account virtually every aspect of traditional culture, including sources from the non-Sinitic ethnic minorities.
Download or read book Melted Away written by Barbara Drake-Vera and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific poet as a child, Barbara Drake-Vera loved writing almost as much as she adored her father, a moody postal employee with an elaborate comb-over and a fondness for Mahler. But when her successes sparked his rage, Barbara silenced her voice for years, terrified even to see her name in print. By age forty-nine, she was a professional journalist living in Peru and collaborating with her husband, a Peruvian-born photographer, to report on melting glaciers in the Andes, far from the reach of her father. Melted Away recounts what happens after her father is diagnosed with advancing Alzheimer’s and Barbara takes him into her home in Lima, beginning a process of self-discovery that uncovers a path toward personal and family healing. A diverse group of allies support her on this quest: a trio of caregiving women from the provinces, who serve as home-health aides; a mischievous, Cervantes-quoting, nonagenarian suitor; and a stubborn alpaca herder who lives beneath a long-worshipped, life-sustaining Andean glacier now melting from rapid climate change. Candid, poignant, and deeply researched, Melted Away is the true story of how a writer at midlife reclaims her agency, and an ardent plea to care for the planet by embracing collectivism and mutual aid.
Download or read book The Crystal Keys of Sidhe written by Linda Sparkes and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who see beauty in all of nature will find themselves taken into this unseen world of mysteries by The Goddess of Sidhe, where she tells the secrets, challenges, and dangers that are endured by four elementals that test them to their limits, friendships, and self-worth through four different lands that protect the eight most powerful crystals in the world. Each territory brings forth its own perils not known to them to get the keys to the centre of the earth for a specific ceremony to save the planet and to stop an evil villain who wants the powers for himself to enact more destruction onto the earth for his own personal gains.
Download or read book Waterless Mountain written by Laura Adams Armer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.
Download or read book New Monthly Magazine written by Mrs. Hibbert Ware and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mary written by Megan McKenna and published by New City Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Scripture as a guide, this work helps us to see the image of Mary that is shaped by the stories of her from the gospels. The image that develops out of these stories is altogether different form the one our culture creates.
Download or read book Folklore written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
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Download or read book Chasing the Dead written by Keta Diablo and published by Keta Diablo. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ~1884, New Mexico~ Madrid Arrende has been kidnapped by the Apache. Determined to rescue his daughter, her wealthy father realizes there is only one man capable of bringing her back alive...Deacon Bannister. Deacon doesn't give one whit about the large sum of money Don Erasmos Arrende has offered him to rescue her. Deacon only cares about bringing the woman he left standing at the altar a year ago home. A ghost is terrorizing the Apache village and the young maiden, Sacheen, has been banished by her People for unleashing Uday's wrath. Now, Deacon, Madrid and Sacheen must flee for their lives across the rugged New Mexico landscape with the evil spirit in hot pursuit. Will they make it back alive to Madrid's father's hacienda or will Deacon lose the woman he loves forever?
Download or read book Opusculum de Sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses written by Father Adriano di St. Thecla and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1750 text, written by a Catholic missionary in Tonkin, is the earliest known systematic first-hand account of Vietnamese religious practice, including chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, the worship of spirits, magicians, fortune tellers and diviners, and Christianity in the region. It was recently discovered in a Paris archive and will be of interest to a broad array of scholars. Includes a facsimile of the original manuscript.
Download or read book Silesian Folk Tales the Book of R bezahl written by James Lee and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom of Folktales Lessons on How to Live Happily Ever After written by Steven Gregory and published by Tales Alive. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often go through life looking for answers and ways to find happiness today and in the future. These answers have been put in a form that is not only accessible but enjoyable: folk and fairy tales! The wisdom of the ages exists in the stories we have been raised on and told to our children for generations. Whether we seek advice on love and marriage, self-respect, or finding our purpose, the words and guidance exist in the tales told around the world for generations. This ebook provides over 25 world stories and insights on: Balance and Tricksters, Growing Up, Love and Marriage, Jealousy and Envy, Kindness and Generosity, Self-Respect, Your Heart's Desire is Waiting to be Found...At Home, We All Have a Purpose, There is a Higher Power, The Time to Live is Now, and Happily Ever After.
Download or read book Century Path written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Madcaps Screwballs and Con Women written by Lori Landay and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights. While there are many studies of tricksters, few have focused on the chicanery of women, and none have dealt with the ways in which the female trickster is constructed in America. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first book to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with such nineteenth-century novels as Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century novels, films, radio, and television shows, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity. She considers texts of the 1920s such as Elinor Glyn's It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; films of Mae West, as well as other Depression-era and wartime film comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as "Roseanne," "Ellen," and "Batman." In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery.
