Download or read book Raven s Wind written by Victor Canning and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Poems written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Myths and Legends of Alaska written by Various Authors and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊLONG ago, even before the days of the animal people, the world was only a great ocean wherein was no land nor any living thing except a great Bird. The Bird, after a long, long time, flew down to the surface of the water and dipped his great black wings into the flood. The earth arose out of the waters. So began the creation. While the land was still soft, the first man burst from the pod of the beach pea and looked out upon the endless plain behind him and the gray salt sea before him. He was the only man. Then Raven appeared to him and the creation of other beings began. Raven made also animals for food and clothing. Later, because the earth plain was so bare, he planted trees and shrubs and grass and set the green things to growing. With creation by a Great Spirit, there came dangers from evil spirits. Such spirits carried away the sun and moon, and hung them to the rafters of the dome-shaped Alaskan huts. The world became cold and cheerless, and in the Land of Darkness white skins became blackened by contact with the darkness. So it became necessary to search for the sun and hang it again in the dome-shaped sky above them. Darkness in the Land of Long Night was the cause, through magic, of the bitter winds of winterÑwinds which came down from the North, bringing with them ice and cold and snow. This was the work of some Great Spirit which had loosened the side of the gray cloud-tent under which they lived, letting in the bitter winds of another world. Spirits blow the mists over the cold north sea so that canoes lose sight of their home-land. Spirits also drive the ice floes, with their fishermen, far over the horizon of ocean, into the still colder North. Spirits govern the run of the salmon, the catching of whales, and all the life of the people of the North who wage such a terrific struggle for existence. So there must needs be those who have power over the evil spirits, those who by incantations and charms of magic, by ceremonial dancing in symbolic dress, can control the designs of those who work ever against these children of the North. Thus there arose the shamans with all their ceremonies. The myths in this volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists, by whose permission this compilation is made. And no effort has been made, in the telling of them, to change them from the terse directness of the natives. The language of all Indian tribes is very simple, and to the extent that an effort is made to put myths and legends into more polished form, to that extent is their authenticity impaired. Only the quaintest and purest of the myths have been selected. Many Alaskan myths are very long and tiresome, rambling from one subject to another, besides revealing low moral conditions. These have been omitted, as have also those which deal with the intermarriage of men and birds, and men and animals. Such myths are better left among government documents where they can be readily consulted by those making a special study of the subject. They are hardly suitable for any collection intended for general reading. The leading myth of the North, however, the Raven Myth, is given with a fair degree of completeness. It would not be possible, nor would it be wise, to attempt a compilation of all the fragments of this extensive myth.
Download or read book Poems written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book South Wind written by Don Coldsmith and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1999-04-06 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his towering epic novel Tallgrass, bestselling author Don Coldsmith captured as never before the historical panorama of the North American Great Plains. Set in the land of unlimited horizons called Kansas, it evoked an age of innocence, exploration, and discovery, covering the period from the arrival of the first European settlers through the expansion of a new world and a new nation in the early nineteenth century. Now, in a narrative as sweeping as it is enthralling, the award-winning author of the Spanish Bit saga takes us back to the years of turbulence and turmoil that followed--a time of massive migration and political upheaval, of bold ambition, grand adventure, and violent change. It was 1846, and from the banks of the Missouri to the crests of the Rockies, limitless opportunity awaited those with the ambition and the courage to seize it. But with the promise of fortune there also came the certainty of danger. Over the next two decades, the relentless onrush of civilization--steamboats, telegraph lines, and railroads--would change the West forever. And so would the drumbeat of war. As Kansas struggled to unite in a bid for statehood, the nation was torn apart by insurrection and civil war. The passions dividing America, sparks that flew across the Great Plains, exploded at Fort Sumter, Shiloh, and Gettysburg, setting off a cycle of violence and vengeance, of blood and fire from which no one could escape. This extraordinary story of hope, hatred, and hardship brings to life the farmers and soldiers, the outlaws and opportunists, the immigrants and orphans who came from all corners of the globe to call Kansas home. Here is former trapper Jed Sterling, who has overcome a terrible tragedy only to face a haunting visit from a past he thought long dead...John and Nancy Willett, who fight to protect their home and sons from the terrors of raiders...Abigail Botts, a Confederate spy who falls in love with a Union lieutenant. Here you will meet the men, women, and children who watched their world go up in flames...and the future rise from the ashes. South Wind is the compelling, vividly realized account of an evolving nation swept up in the whirlwind of war and progress...and of a diverse people seeking the path to a promised land across four hundred miles of Kansas frontier. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Ravens in the Storm written by Carl Oglesby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked by a local Democratic congressman to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War. Oglesby's report argued that the conflict was misplaced and unwinnable. He had little idea that its subsequent publication would put him on a fast track to becoming the president of the now-legendary protest movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In this book, Oglesby shares the triumphs and tribulations of an organization that burgeoned across America, only to collapse in the face of surveillance by the U.S. government and infighting. As an SDS leader, Oglesby spoke on the same platform as Coretta Scott King and Benjamin Spock at the storied 1965 antiwar demonstration in Washington, D.C. He traveled to war-ravaged Vietnam and to the international war crimes tribunal in Scandinavia, where he met with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. He helped initiate the Venceremos Brigade, which dispatched thousands of American students to bring in the Cuban sugar harvest. He reluctantly participated in the protest outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention and was a witness for the defense at the trial of the Chicago Seven the following year. Eventually, after extensive battles with those in SDS who saw its future more as a vanguard guerrilla group than as an open mass movement, Oglesby was drummed out of the organization. Shortly after, it collapsed when key members of its leadership quit to set up the Weather Underground. This beautifully written and elegiac memoir is rich in contemporary echoes as America once again must come to terms with an ill-conceived military adventure abroad. Carl Oglesby warns of the destructive frustrations of a peace campaign unable to achieve its goals. But above all, he captures the joyful liberation of joining together to take a stand for what is right and just -- the soaring and swooping of a protest movement in full flight, like ravens in a storm.
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Download or read book The Ravens of Shee written by Patricia Gilkerson and published by Satin Romance. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The raven was told to find the young woman with honey skin, dark hair, and purply-blue eyes who spoke the Old Language. He found half-elf, half-Native American Indigo, and gave her a message: the Green Lady of Faerie needed her help. Indigo admired the Green Lady and wanted to help but had been told never to return there and was terrified of imprisonment underground again. How could she help the faerie-folk and gain the love of Griffin, another half-elf, without encountering the Dark Faeries of her nightmares? And what do the ravens have to do with it anyway?
Download or read book Report written by Migration of birds and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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