Download or read book In the Loyal Mountains written by Rick Bass and published by HMH. This book was released on 1995-06-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bass’s fiction takes us to the borders of civilization, where we glimpse an untamed world of myth and mystery” (Entertainment Weekly). In this “moving and self-assured collection” of short fiction, enormous pigs charge through the streets and root under houses; a woman runs up and down mountains; children don wolf masks to chase a boy through the woods; and a man remembers his youth in the Texas hill country, when he joined in his uncle’s raucous escapades (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Here, the award-winning author of Platte River and other acclaimed works, renowned for his insightful portrayals of people and their interactions with the natural world, “expresses his profound love of the wild. His sense of the magnificent and bewildering complexity of life infuses each of the haunting short stories in this strong collection” (Booklist).
Download or read book In the Loyal Mountains written by Rick Bass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories on people and nature. Fires is on a woman long-distance runner, The Legend of Pig-Eye is on a boxer in training, and The Valley is on a man's love for a valley. By the author of Platte River.
Download or read book The Mountains of California written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. The mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierras. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects. While Yosemite naturally receives great attention, Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.
Download or read book The Mountain Throne written by A. M. Sterling and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aged emperor Thelden III Arrigar's last days are approaching and the Empire's leaders are taking sides in a struggle for power between rival heirs. Blood runs in the streets and the nights are thick with intrigue. Drake Arrigar, bastard prince and half-blooded sorcerer. Darius of Lorradon, foreign-born Initiate of a holy order of warriors sworn to the Empire. Leasha, senior maiden and chief spy for the Emperor's daughter. These three unlikely friends must navigate the coming storms as plots, violence, and unholy barbarians tear their lives apart. Their trials, failures, and triumphs will have far-reaching consequences, for their people and for their own futures.
Download or read book Campfire Girls In The Allegheny Mountains Or A Christmas Success Against Odds written by Stella M. Francis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains" authored by Stella M. Francis, is an undying story that immerses readers in the beauty of the natural global and the enduring power of friendship. The novel, that is a monument to the writer's storytelling prowess, transports readers to the engrossing international of the Campfire Girls and became written with the aid of the gifted but comparatively unknown Stella M. Francis. The story, which is ready towards the lovely Allegheny Mountains backdrop, creates a tapestry of journey, outdoor discovery, and friendship. Francis deftly blends charming storytelling with subdued but impactful lessons approximately resilience and friendship as the Campfire Girls explore the herbal beauties of the highlands. Despite the paucity of data available approximately Stella M. Francis, her literary influence is evident on this piece. Within the sector of journey literature, the book is a hidden gem that leaves an enduring affect on readers. "Campfire Girls inside the Allegheny Mountains" is a precious painting for people in search of an aggregate of nature, companionship, and the magic of storytelling since it now not most effective encapsulates the spirit of the first-rate exterior however additionally takes readers on a journey that transcends time.
Download or read book More Laughter in Appalachia written by Loyal Jones and published by august house. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Packed with humorous jokes, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and songs ... this collection is thick with artifacts of Southern wit."--Back cover.
Download or read book Wild Country written by John Killdeer and published by Domain. This book was released on 1992 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years of the Lewis and Clark expedition, nineteen-year-old Clive Bennett, mistakenly believing he has killed his own father, flees home and hearth and begins life as a mountain man in the rugged west. Original.
Download or read book Wild to the Heart written by Rick Bass and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On long weekends, Rick Bass drives away from Jackson, Mississippi, and the job that confines him. His excursions take him to southern rivers, southern swamps, and sometimes to conservation meetings. Through thirteen essays written in a style compared to Thoreau, Muir, and Annie Dillard, Bass records his meanderings in a lyrical exploration of wildness and freedomin nature and in ourselves. Illus.
Download or read book A Lady s Life in the Rocky Mountains written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
Download or read book The Boy at the Top of the Mountain written by John Boyne and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful, unforgettable new novel from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, for ages 12+. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape.
Download or read book Facing the Mountain written by Daniel James Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner.” – Wall Street Journal From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation. In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of Gordon Hirabayashi, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best—striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.
Download or read book Trash Mountain written by Jane Yolen and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This you should know: Gray squirrels are almost always larger, faster, and more aggressive than reds. They out-eat the reds and out-breed them. Science says the grays will eventually win. Nutley is a young red squirrel. For most of his life, he's been content to live on local seeds and the cautious wisdom of his parents. But like so many young squirrels before him, he feels the call of the wild (and the hazelnuts) beyond the safety of his family's own tree. Nutley wonders what it would be like to be Dangerous, like the growing band of gray squirrels that roam his neighborhood. Nature, which is truly red in tooth and claw, forces Nutley to find out if he's cut out for a life of danger. He must flee his familiar tree for the smelly shelter of the local landfill. There, with the help of some unlikely allies, he might just be able to make a stand against the grays. This you should know: No matter what scientists say is almost always true, the exceptions are almost always the best stories.
Download or read book Lessons from the Mountain written by Mary McDonough and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Not] the typical celebrity memoir . . . as much an account of her decades-long spiritual journey as it is a look back at her TV and movie career.” —Spiritual Pop Culture “Mary is a whole lot more than Erin on The Waltons. This book shows how she’s handled all the highs and lows with grace.” —George Clooney For nine seasons, Mary McDonough was part of one of the most beloved families in television history. Just ten years old when she was cast as the pretty, wholesome middle child Erin, Mary grew up on the set of The Waltons, alternately embracing and rebelling against her good-girl onscreen persona. Now, as the first cast member to write about her experiences on the classic series, she candidly recounts the joys and challenges of growing up Walton—from her overnight transformation from a normal kid in a working class, Irish Catholic family, to a Hollywood child star, to the personal challenges that led her to take on a new role as an activist for women’s body image issues. Touching, funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and always illuminating, Lessons from the Mountain is the story of everything Mary McDonough learned on her journey over—and beyond—that famous mountain. Includes Never Before Published Bonus Chapter! “A fascinating look at what it’s like to grow up in front of and beyond the cameras.” —Eve Plumb “For someone who started out as a sweet little girl afraid to speak up, it certainly is a pleasure to hear her shout from the top of the mountain now!” —Alison Arngrim, New York Times bestselling author “[A] poignant memoir . . . the actress shares intimate, behind-the-scenes memories.” —Smashing Interviews Magazine
Download or read book The Honest Truth written by Dan Gemeinhart and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark has been in and out of hospital his whole life - and he's fed up. So when his cancer returns, he decides he's had enough. Running away with his dog Beau, he sets out to climb a mountain - and it's only when he's left everything behind that Mark realises he has everything to live for.
Download or read book Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English Speaking World written by Françoise Besson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature, philosophy, painting, cinema, ecology, history, palaeontology, geography, geopolitics, toponymy, law, religion and myth, invites people to an innovative reading of mountains: it reveals the close relationship existing between the shapes of the world and all forms of writing and, at the same time, it shows how the representations of the imagination may be instrumental in protecting the natural world. The story told by the landscape inscribes a broken line in the shapes of the world, tearing the landscape like a fragile page whenever historical and political events (wars, mining or deforestation) leave scars in the landscape; but writers' and artists' representations of mountains constitute a path to awareness as they are not only a painting of beauty, but an image of our link to nature and a warning as well. For centuries the image of the mountain has conveyed a symbolism telling the story of human thought, and this book shows to what extent literature and art play an essential part in our awareness of nature.
Download or read book Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys written by Amelia B. Edwards and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real-life inspiration for modern-day mystery writer Elizabeth Peters's "Amelia Peabody" novels, celebrated Victorian adventuress Amelia Edwards enjoyed unexpected notoriety, for a woman, as a journalist, political activist, and world traveler. In 1872, she a female companion set off on a "ramble" through the nearly impassable Italian Dolomites, where food and shelter were chancy propositions but the scenery was gorgeous and the people friendly and welcoming. Edwards approached the expedition with humor and enthusiasm, as she regales us with the tale of the journey with the generous, vivacious spirit that made her one of her era's most daring women. - Back cover.
Download or read book At the Mountains of Madness written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding stories"--Copyright page.
