Download or read book Memoirs and Musings of a Country Boy written by George S. Abshier and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetry by Chuck Volume Two Musings of a Country Boy written by Charles E. "Chuck" Vandergraff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey to a simpler time and place. "Chuck's" Country Boy love poems touch the heart. His childhood shenanigans make you laugh out loud. Shocked cats and acrobatic pigs amuse and delight. See the beautiful prairie in a new light.
Download or read book Musings of a Country Boy written by Scott A. Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musings of a Country Boy written by Edward Joyner and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, Edward Cole Joyner was moved to write a number of poems about his experiences growing up in rural Virginia. Ed was born in Richmond, Virginia, and his family lived between Purdy (a country road community) and Jarratt, a small town in Greensville and Sussex Counties in Southeastern Virginia. Ed grew up on a farm that grew peanuts, and as a child developed a love for the outdoors. After his graduation from The College of William and Mary, he settled in Williamsburg, Virginia, and began his career in Human Resources. Ed reflects that he wrote these thirty one poems to get streams of his childhood and mid-life memories out of his head. He says that his experiences somewhat haunted him in such that they insisted on being written, sometimes in batches.Ed is an avid kayaker and is a passionate outdoorsman who has hiked many Shenandoah National Park trails and most of the state parks in Virginia. Ed is still connected to his roots in Jarratt and is improving wildlife habitat and forestry on his old childhood property. He is married to Patricia, and has two adult children, Cole and Clara.
Download or read book Don t Drink the Water written by Richard Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up a Country Boy written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems, quotations, and excerpts from fiction and nonfiction on the topic of boys playing outdoors and growing up, richly illustrated.
Download or read book Musings of a Country Boy written by Edward Joyner and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, Edward Cole Joyner was moved to write a number of poems about his experiences growing up in rural Virginia. Ed was born in Richmond, Virginia, and his family lived between Purdy (a country road community) and Jarratt, a small town in Greensville and Sussex Counties in Southeastern Virginia. Ed grew up on a farm that grew peanuts, and as a child developed a love for the outdoors. After his graduation from The College of William and Mary, he settled in Williamsburg, Virginia, and began his career in Human Resources. Ed reflects that he wrote these thirty one poems to get streams of his childhood and mid-life memories out of his head. He says that his experiences somewhat haunted him in such that they insisted on being written, sometimes in batches.Ed is an avid kayaker and is a passionate outdoorsman who has hiked many Shenandoah National Park trails and most of the state parks in Virginia. Ed is still connected to his roots in Jarratt and is improving wildlife habitat and forestry on his old childhood property. He is married to Patricia, and has two adult children, Cole and Clara.
Download or read book Ain t That Something written by Charles L. Bonds and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God can take the life of the most insignificant individual or a ministry in a small to moderate-size church and touch the lives of many people for eternity. This is the lesson at the heart of Pastor Bonds' message to the readers of Ain't That Something? Pastor Bonds is retired, having served more than forty-nine years of pastoral ministry in various churches in Nebraska and Texas. He grew up in humble circumstances that some would even call poor during the Great Depression in the 1930's. However, he never thought of himself or his family as being poor. He lived a simple childhood and a rather insignificant adolescence. He takes the reader on the journey of his life from before he was born to the end of his years of pastoral ministry. Pastor Bonds has written his book to encourage those who feel that they are just ordinary and insignificant; not really able to be useful to God in any meaningful way. He wants to encourage the pastors of the thousands of small and moderate-size churches scattered throughout America to see themselves as successful. His message is that God will use anyone who trusts Him.
Download or read book Adventures of a Country Boy in the City written by Oluwole Komolafe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures of a Country Boy in the City provides an insight into the engaging life of the author, whose natural instinct is to know how to convert opportunities to bring about positive changes in his life. The author enchants the imagination of his readers to become part of his compelling story by involving the reader in every step of the adventures he encountered in the city of Lagos, and later, as a student, in the cities of Hamburg and of West Berlin. Told in very colorful and vibrant language, the reader, the author and the story all become one and the same entity, allegorically following the path etched out in the words of the author. When, in his journeys, and one road seemed to be closed and the reader shudders at the rational of the breathtaking risk that the author has just taken, a God-sent Guiding Angel suddenly appears to take the author out of whatever adversity. Join Komolafe in his adventures as he journeys through life from the background of a simple village life in the Yoruba Kingdom of Nigeria to the world of opportunities that awaits a man of valor who dares to demand his share of what destiny has in stock for him.
Download or read book Musings from Cowboy Country written by George Rhoades and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic musings from award-winning Western poet George Rhoades about cowboys, ranch and farm life and assorted subjects- some humorous, some philosophical, some serious and some not-so-serious.
Download or read book Texas My Texas written by Lonn Taylor and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a collection of essays about Texas gathered from his West Texas newspaper column, Lonn Taylor traverses the very best of Texas geography, Texas history, and Texas personalities. In a state so famous for its pride, Taylor manages to write a very honest, witty, and wise book about Texas past and Texas present. Texas, My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy is a story of legacies, of men and women, times, and places that have made this state what it is today. From a history of Taylor’s hometown, Fort Davis, to stories about the first man wounded in the Texas Revolution, (who was an African American), to accounts of outlaw Sam Bass and an explanation of Hill Country Christmases, Taylor has searched every corner of the state for untold histories.Taylor’s background as a former curator at the Smithsonian National Museum becomes apparent in his attention to detail: Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, artists, architects, criminals, the founder of Neiman Marcus, and the famous horned frog “Old Rip” all make appearances as quintessential Texans. Lonn Taylor’s unique narrative voice is personal. As he points out in the foreword, it is the stories of Texans themselves, of their grit and eccentricities, that have “brought the past into the present . . . the two seem to me to be bound together by stories.” People—real Texans—are the focus of the essays, making Texas, My Texas a rite of passage for anyone who claims Texan heritage. There are just a few things every good Texan “knows,” like the fact that it is illegal to pick bluebonnets along the highway, or that the Menger Hotel bar is modeled after the one in the House of Lords in London. Taylor points out with his usual wit that it is not, in fact, illegal to pick any of the six varieties of bluebonnets that grow throughout our state, and that few Texans would know that the bar is modeled after the one in the House of Lords, as few Texans are Lords. These are just a few examples of Taylor’s knowledge of Texas and his passion for its citizens.
Download or read book Tiny Sunbirds Far Away written by Christie Watson and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 Costa First Novel Award When their mother catches their father with another woman, twelve year-old Blessing and her fourteen-year-old brother, Ezikiel, are forced to leave their comfortable home in Lagos for a village in the Niger Delta, to live with their mother’s family. Without running water or electricity, Warri is at first a nightmare for Blessing. Her mother is gone all day and works suspiciously late into the night to pay the children’s school fees. Her brother, once a promising student, seems to be falling increasingly under the influence of the local group of violent teenage boys calling themselves Freedom Fighters. Her grandfather, a kind if misguided man, is trying on Islam as his new religion of choice, and is even considering the possibility of bringing in a second wife. But Blessing’s grandmother, wise and practical, soon becomes a beloved mentor, teaching Blessing the ways of the midwife in rural Nigeria. Blessing is exposed to the horrors of genital mutilation and the devastation wrought on the environment by British and American oil companies. As Warri comes to feel like home, Blessing becomes increasingly aware of the threats to its safety, both from its unshakable but dangerous traditions and the relentless carelessness of the modern world. Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away is the witty and beautifully written story of one family’s attempt to survive a new life they could never have imagined, struggling to find a deeper sense of identity along the way.
Download or read book The Slam written by Curt Sampson and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the legendary golfer looks at his Grand Slam victories in terms of his rise to success in the sport of golf and the devastating impact of fame and adulation for a intensely private man.
Download or read book Spirit of Delight written by George McLean Harper and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Country Boy written by Charles Sarver and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Country Musings In verse written by Frances Koster SISSON and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Price of Thirst written by Karen Piper and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.” But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst—one where thirst is political, drought is a business opportunity, and more and more of our most necessary natural resource is controlled by multinational corporations. In visits to the hot spots of water scarcity and the hotshots in water finance, Piper shows us what happens when global businesses with mafia-like powers buy up the water supply and turn off the taps of people who cannot pay: border disputes between Iraq and Turkey, a “revolution of the thirsty” in Egypt, street fights in Greece, an apartheid of water rights in South Africa. The Price of Thirst takes us to Chile, the first nation to privatize 100 percent of its water supplies, creating a crushing monopoly instead of a thriving free market in water; to New Delhi, where the sacred waters of the Ganges are being diverted to a private water treatment plant, fomenting unrest; and to Iraq, where the U.S.-mandated privatization of water resources destroyed by our military is further destabilizing the volatile region. And in our own backyard, where these same corporations are quietly buying up water supplies, Piper reveals how “water banking” is drying up California farms in favor of urban sprawl and private towns. The product of seven years of investigation across six continents and a dozen countries, and scores of interviews with CEOs, activists, environmentalists, and climate change specialists, The Price of Thirst paints a harrowing picture of a world out of balance, with the distance between the haves and have-nots of water inexorably widening and the coming crisis moving ever closer.
