Download or read book The Gringo s Hawk written by Jon Marañon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This American author has now spent four decades being involved in Costa Rica’s terrestrial and marine habitats, documenting the challenges and triumphs of his attempts to make an environmentally conscious and sustainable living in this paradise. Jon Marañón offers a unique first-person account of nature and persons in conflict and the difficulties of meshing human existence into the recently pristine coastal rainforests of Costa Rica. His work promotes reader awareness of the natural environment, wildlife, ecosystems, and socioculture of this remote area of Costa Rica. Ecology and spirituality intertwine as he describes his journey in a mix of naturalist and lyrical prose that, along with humor and introspection, mark the style of The Gringo’s Hawk. The Gringo’s Hawk represents the culmination of Mr. Marañón’s social struggles and the roles he has played in conservation, education, social well-being, and in establishing national parks and marine reserves in his area.

Download or read book Quest of the Hawk written by Leigh Franklin James and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hawk, John Cooper Baines, joins forces with an Indian nation to battle ruthless desperadoes, while in New Orleans, an old enemy sworn to kill the Hawk threatens a beautiful French girl and in the Southwest, war with Mexico begins.

Download or read book Shadow of the Hawk written by Leigh Franklin James and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1985 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color illustration on front cover of two men and a woman, one man in a red military uniform, the other in a white shirt. The dark-haired woman is wearing a red dress, sitting in a chair, with her arms folded over her head. They are in front of a body of water with a fortress-like building in the background.

Download or read book Daggers in the Desert written by Marcus Guerra and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daggers in the Desert is a novel of adventure in the life of a simple Mexican cardboard-box collector (cartonero) and a US Border Patrol agent on the Rio Grande border of South Texas and Northern Mexico. Far from the life he had known in Georgia, the agent fights heat, drugs, coyotes (human smugglers), and himself in the dusty Laredo sector of the 1970s with a 97 percent Hispanic population.

Download or read book Hawk Dancer written by Joshua Seidl and published by Hawk Dancer. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two freinds establish a Native American Franciscan Friary during World War II in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Adventures carry through the 1960s and into 2009. A story of three cultures: Native, Euro-American and Metis. Modern Historical fiction.

Download or read book Night of the Hawk written by Leigh Franklin James and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Apache Wars Saga Book 1 Desert Hawks written by Len Levinson and published by PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1846 – and the great American Southwest was the prize in an epic conflict. The U.S. Army and the army of Mexico met in a battle that would shape the course of history, while the legendary Apache warrior chief Mangas Coloradas looked on, determined to defend his ancestral lands and age-old tribal traditions against either of the invaders or both. On this bloody battlefield young Lieutenant Nathanial Barrington faced his first great test of manhood…as he began a career that would take him to the heart of the conflict sweeping over the West from Texas to New Mexico…and plunge him into passions that would force him to choose between two very different frontier beauties. This enthralling first novel of The Apache Wars Saga captures the drama and real history of a struggle in which no side wanted to surrender…in a series alive with all the excitement and adventures of brave men and women – white and Native American – who decided the future of America.

Download or read book Pancho Villa s Golden Hawks written by Carlos H. Cantu and published by LibrosEnRed. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courage, daring, heroism and romance, turn it into a vivid fast-paced narrative that will satiate lovers of action adventure literature, giving them a true to life picture of famous Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

Download or read book Hawk Shadow written by Monica Heath and published by Playboy Paperbacks. This book was released on 1980 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Tales from the Wild Blue Yonder LIVING DANGEROUSLY written by John Q. Olson and published by Dust Devil Press. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Migrants Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Latin America written by Raanan Rein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on Jewish, Arab, non-Latin European, Asian, and Latin American immigrants and their experiences in their “new” homes. Rejecting exceptionalist and homogenizing tendencies within immigration history, contributors advocate instead an approach that emphasizes the locally- and nationally-embedded nature of ethnic identification.

Download or read book Between South and North Travelogue02 written by K.K. Pierscieniak and published by el_Traveler Media. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a not-so-brief absence from South America, I returned and picked-up exactly where I had left off, exactly where I’d begun originally: in smoggy Lima. Only this second time, I angled north: for the equator. The north of Peru is strikingly different from the south and yet again, like once before, I struck-up the most interesting acquaintanceships in a Plaza de Armas. Ecuador came next: there I discovered the whole continent in miniature, but nothing except tourist gimmicks to delay me. I crossed the next border with rare trepidation because the land of coffee, cartels, and cocaine -Colombia- was enjoying such an unsavory reputation. But it proved one of the most extraordinary countries that I've ever set-foot-in. My heart had never felt so heavy as when I took the first step into Venezuela. There I could have lingered longer, visited more places, but a strike paralyzed the cities and it had seemed prudent to leave while I could. Panama: getting in was a lot more exciting than being in. Nicaragua: tiny islands half-lost far-off at sea. Honduras: good roads and donuts. El Salvador: a tragic country whose people have suffered through everything yet refuse to give-in to despair. Guatemala, everybody’s favorite corner of Latin American: Antigua, Chichicastenango and El Mirador. Big Mama on Caye Culker, Belize. Mexico: too many kilometers on too many buses in too few days. Travelogue02 swings through every country south of the Rio Grande, eighteen in all, except the Guianas.    The author is nobody special — he’s just of a new breed of travel writers. And his Travelogues are for a new breed of readers — normal contemporary sorts of people like and my neighbor Tom, feeding their curiosity for curiosity’s sake, taking armchair voyages through countries that until a few years ago were virtually unknown to the outside word. While bookshop shelves tend to sag under the weight of stories about places, not journeys, the latter are far more fascinating. Few books today capture the essence of what it is like to travel. Having established himself with the original bold “what’s it really like Out There” anthology, the author does exactly that. Each Travelogue offers its reader more than the old tired travel diary. Just like each one of the author’s trips turned out most unusual, these books —too— are out of the ordinary. They’re collections of short stories, each capturing a particular moment: some are funny, some emotional, some suspenseful, some downright silly... and each one is very different from every other. They are snapshots of people and places and adventures that had been recorded in words rather than by multicolored pixels of a digital point-and-shoot. What makes them unreal is that all these stories are 100% true... Seriously, you couldn't make this stuff up even if you wanted to. None of it is this normal cut-and-dry stuff. Every story offers a fresh insight, a totally different perspective. On the beaten path... and off of it, against the backdrop of the exotic, anything can happen: and it usually does. More often than not, these stories are set in villages kilometers apart, but there’s never telling what might happen next. The author doesn't care where the journey might take him — it’s all about the experience of being Out There. He’s simply following his passion for discovering and exploring. For Travelogues’ readers, the books are a jaunt into the unknown. It’s the journey and not the destination that matters.

Download or read book A Friend In Need A Story of the New South written by Tom Lanier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan Sinclain's life has come full circle. He has finally escaped the mental ravages that plague many veterans like himself. For the first time since Vietnam, he has reached a sort of normalcy, which involves the love of a beautiful woman, a sense of family, and a spiritual peace. Then a predawn phone call from Emmit Kennon, a one-time comrade in arms, shatters his tranquility and leads Harlan down a path that threatens all he holds dear.

Download or read book Sparrow Hawk Red written by Ben Mikaelsen and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 1999-03-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers.

Download or read book Projecting the World written by Russell Meeuf and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of an oft-overlooked aspect of classical Hollywood films, Projecting the World offers a series of striking new analyses that will entice cinema lovers, film historians, and those interested in the history of American neocolonialism.

Download or read book No Pretty Picture written by Michael Archie Hays and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A testament to strength and determination, Maud Hawk Wright recounts the true story of a young American woman who is kidnapped from her ranch in Chihuahua during the Mexican Revolution by Villista raiders. The raiders force her and her husband off their land, leaving their infant child with a hired hand, and shortly afterward, murdering her husband. Bereft and grieving, Maud is taken to Pancho Villa’s encampment in the mountains, peopled by hundreds of revolutionaries, preparing for action. To her surprise, Maud is chosen to ride with Villa and four hundred of his soldiers to the north. Enduring a brutal nine-day trek through the mountains of northern Mexico with Villa and his small army, Maud witnesses the violent mania of Villa and his officers and learns the stories of people who follow him. During the ride, Maud learns that she will become a participant in Villa’s grandiose plan to invade the United States. Before dawn of the ninth day of Maud’s captivity, she finds herself riding as a member of Villa’s army as it crosses the border to attack a small border town, Columbus, New Mexico. What happens is surprising. Includes Readers Guide.