Download or read book Home Upriver written by Martha A. Zierden and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home is Upriver written by Brian Harwin and published by New York, Macmillan. This book was released on 1952 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Country and Cozy written by Robert Klanten and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning away from traffic-choked streets and onto meandering country paths, urban residents increasingly are choosing to take up residence in greener pastures. Quiet and quaint, the countryside comes with its own pace of living - and depending on where you are, its own regional flair. Country and Cozy opens doors and pulls back the floral curtains to reveal a more characterful approach to interior design and decoration. Whether it's a converted outhouse in the south of France, a Latin American Finca, or a whimsical English cottage complete with a thatched roof, Country and Cozy showcases a series of beautiful country homes and illustrates how their inhabitants have created breathtaking living spaces that make the most of rural life.
Download or read book Upriver written by Michael F. Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for their pugnacity and fierce independence—remain determined, against long odds, to live life on their own terms. When Brown took up residence with the Awajún in 1976, he knew little about them other than their ancestors’ reputation as fearsome headhunters. The fledgling anthropologist was immediately impressed by his hosts’ vivacity and resourcefulness. But eventually his investigations led him into darker corners of a world where murderous vendettas, fear of sorcery, and a shocking incidence of suicide were still common. Peru’s Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s forced Brown to refocus his work elsewhere. Revisiting his field notes decades later, now with an older man’s understanding of life’s fragility, Brown saw a different story: a tribal society trying, and sometimes failing, to maintain order in the face of an expanding capitalist frontier. Curious about how the Awajún were faring, Brown returned to the site in 2012, where he found a people whose combative self-confidence had led them to the forefront of South America’s struggle for indigenous rights. Written with insight, sensitivity, and humor, Upriver paints a vivid picture of a rapidly growing population that is refashioning its warrior tradition for the twenty-first century. Embracing literacy and digital technology, the Awajún are using hard-won political savvy to defend their rainforest home and right of self-determination.
Download or read book Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem written by Brent Douglas Galloway and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 1724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.
Download or read book At Home on an Unruly Planet written by Madeline Ostrander and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Kirkus Reviews' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter? Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet, science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters. An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes. Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis. The book is required reading for anyone who wants to make a home in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Riding Fury Home written by Chana Wilson and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between the author and her mother, who spent time in a mental institution after attempting to murder her daughter as a result of the mental anguish over a love affair with another woman in 1958. Original.
Download or read book Above and Beyond written by John Troyer and published by Word Alive Press. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my story of growing up in a small town in Nebraska, often looking at maps of northern Canada and dreaming of going there. Those dreams eventually came true, but first I had to undertake a journey from angry unbelief and rebellion to complete confidence and surrender to God, who gave me a purpose. The resulting saga took me from Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, to the jungles of South America. But the most exciting adventure has been my faith walk and really knowing what it’s like to have the hand of God on my shoulder protecting, directing, and correcting me. The journey continues.
Download or read book 1 DOWN 4 UP written by Cathy Formusa and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-20 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This uplifting journey of visionary fiction encourages readers to find solace and inspiration in the beauty of self-exploration and the pursuit of personal freedom. Joan's summer of adventures await beyond the confines of her comfort zone to uncover layers of self-discovery and growth. Humor, joy, and grace punctuate the narrative of this novel catered to the young adult within us all. 1 Down 4 Up goes beyond the physical realm, teaching techniques and guiding Joan—and by extension, the audience—towards a richer understanding of life's challenges and triumphs.
Download or read book Log Home Living written by and published by Presses Univ. Septentrion. This book was released on 1989 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Issue: 2006 Floorplan Guide.
Download or read book Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida written by Roo Borson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-03-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Roo Borson’s new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its burden of live memory. Always “the line bends as the river bends,” a quick ever-adjusting music that carries in its current those cherished, perishable, details of eye and ear, mid-life reflections on loss and home, the subtle shifts in season suddenly made strange and re-awakened. Recurrently, probingly, the line returns to the place of poetry in our lives. In the spirit of Basho’s famous journey to the far north, Borson’s “short journey” reminds us of the role of poetry in shaping and deepening our engagement with the world.
Download or read book Landings written by Jenny Pattrick and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid and evocative, this is a moving novel of a unique time and place from one of New Zealand's favourite authors. The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people who have made it their home are a diverse collection, from Samuel Blencoe, trying to forget his past life as a convict, to the hoteliers at Pipiriki, the nuns at Jerusalem, the Maori families, the Chinese market gardener and the farmers, like Danny and Stella, trying to tame the wild bush. There's also Bridie, the strange, silent girl, who haunts the banks of the river where the accident occurred that robbed her of her mind. Like the tributaries that trickle down the mountains and join the mighty river, so the lives of these people come together in this vivid and moving tale of a stunningly unique place.
Download or read book Fruit of the Devil written by Mary Flodin and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Aurora Bourne would do anything to protect her students from harm … even if that means going up against the most powerful corporation on the planet. While getting her fourth grade classroom ready for Fall, Aurora begins to feel sick, and it’s more than back-to-school blues. Outside her windows next to the playground, strawberry fields have just been fumigated and pesticides are drifting into the classrooms, causing serious health issues for children and adults. When the teenage sister of a migrant student goes missing from the strawberry fields, it becomes clear that pesticide poisoning isn’t the only thing threatening the children’s safety, and Aurora begins to understand why farmworkers call strawberries Fruta del Diablo — the Fruit of the Devil. Aurora starts asking questions and gets caught in a web of gangs, drugs, trafficking, and high-level corporate crime. When a Catholic priest comes to her aid, she falls in love with him, complicating her life further. She has no idea he’s actually an ancient nature god out of Pacific Coast indigenous legends.
Download or read book On the Rim of Empire written by Philip Peter Russo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though taking place against the background of the colorful and turbulent years of the American Revolution, this is primarily a tale of espionage and betrayal. Within the fabric of the earth-shaking events of those times, the author has interwoven a set of characters who could have credibly existed, but who are, of course, pure fiction. What is not fiction was George Washington's shrewd, efficient, and amazingly effective use of his secret service during the long struggle for American independence. Even so, events were to prove that at times mere chance weighed in at the right time and place to aid in the birth of this new and very different nation; one that a future great president would call "the last best hope of mankind".
Download or read book Nevertheless written by Renelle Marie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They make it happen--transform a young boy's life and fulfill a wealthy New Orleanian's ambitious dream. Small but important occurrences fuse the lives of average people, personalities of whom we've all encountered in varying degrees. A light humorous read appropriate for all ages, the story demonstrates innocence yet wisdom, and frustration yet endurance in a Southeastern Louisiana town near New Orleans. Sporadically sprinkled among its pages, along with the humor, is the inclusion of the book's title once in each chapter, a unique and additional captivating feature.
Download or read book The Peak written by D.C. Salisbury and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wilderness of the St. Joe River in North Idaho, hunting season has started, and someone is killing its hunters. Deputy Henry must work with a Montana officer to find the hunter, who has killed in Idaho and Montana. Henry's past sins come back to haunt him. His dreams of her continue, while someone is hunting him.
Download or read book Son Rivers Dawning Waking Words and Dreaming Cantos the Ultimate Reality Series written by Greg Perry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a journal of awakening
