Download or read book The Mountain Spirit written by Michael Tobias and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Spirit of the Mountains written by and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sacred Sites of Minnesota written by John-Brian Paprock and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the traveler seeking to find the spirit--however he or she chooses to define that term--Minnesota is blessed with a large number of sacred sites, many of which are unique. This book profiles approximately 350 sites, including retreat centers, churches, temples, cemeteries, and effigy mounds. Learn about each site's history, uniqueness, aesthetic beauty, and awe. Specific location and contact information is also included.

Download or read book Mountain Spirits written by Joseph Earl Dabney and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After retiring from a career as a public relations representative with Lockheed Martin Corporation, Joseph Earl Dabney currently enjoys a career as a writer, author, and speaker. He also has experience as a reporter and editor for several Southern newspapers. Dabney has written three other books: More Mountain Spirits; Herk: Hero of the Skies; and Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, and Scuppernong Wine, which was named Cookbook of the Year by the James Beard Foundation for 1999. Joe is a native of Kershaw, South Carolina, and lives in Atlanta. Book jacket.

Download or read book Discovery on Spirit Mountain written by K.Z. West and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warned away from Spirit Mountain, destination for their spring break, sixteen-year-old Gwyn Lorne, her twin brother, and their best friends opt to visit the mountain anyway. They find themselves caught up in an adventure that quickly escalates into danger. Tired of what she feels is a mundane existence, Gwyn knows something is missing in her life. While she grapples with mysterious thieves, ghostly dancers, and seeks to unravel an ancient Iroquoian riddle, an unseen force is at work within her. Is it mystery, romance, or Gods pursuant love that will finally make her whole?

Download or read book Spirit of the Rockies written by Thomas D. Mangelsen and published by Thomas D Mangelsen Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two environmental activists join forces to document--in full-color photographs and impassioned essays--the beauty of America's elusive wild cats and the dangers they face.

Download or read book Spirit of a Mountain Wolf written by Rosanne Hawke and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Razaq Khan lives in the Pakistani tribal area of Kala Dhaka, Black Mountain. When an earthquake devastates his family home, Razaq's dying father tells him to travel to his uncle Javaid. A man preying on orphans lures Razaq to the city with the promise of finding his uncle, but it is not long before Razaq realizes he has not been helped at all, he has been sold into slavery. Losing hope while in captivity, Razaq meets Tahira, a young girl suffering just like him. Razaq feels a surge of something newûlove. Author Rosanne Hawke delivers a heart-wrenching story about friendship and sacrifice and the power of the human spirit, a mountain wolf's spirit, to overcome sexual exploitation, the most harrowing of circumstances.

Download or read book Spirit Mountain and Other Tales written by Arielle Masin and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy or Reality? which is it? do they meet somewhere in the middle? A bridge? These are tales that reflect both. Some offer mystery and intrigue, some pure fun and a hint of romance, and others? Perhaps they will make you think, and ask, "what if...?"

Download or read book Waterless Mountain written by Laura Adams Armer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.

Download or read book Mountain Spirit written by Lawrence L. Loendorf and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive ethnographic work among descendant native peoples and ongoing archaeological excavations, Mountain Spirit shows that many groups have visited or lived in the area in prehistoric and historic times. Primary among them was the Shoshone group called Tukudika, or Sheep Eaters, who maintained a rich and abundant way of life closely related to their primary source of protein, the mountain sheep of the high-altitude Yellowstone area.

Download or read book Mountains of Spirit written by Samuel Freddy Khunou and published by Bookstorm. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the rich history and resilience of the Bakwena ba Mogopa, one of the most important traditional communities in South Africa. This seminal and lucid work depicts the scope of social, political and economic change of the community from its earliest beginnings as the Kwena tribe migrating from East Africa to southern Africa, the birth of the tribe as a distinct and independent lineage in the 1600s, the impact of land dispossession of the Boer settlers as they advanced from the Cape Colony to the interior, the impact of Christianity, the racist and oppressive attitudes and policies of colonial governments, through to the hardships endured under the Union government and apartheid. A story spanning migrations, wars, land dispossession and restitution, intra-tribal rivalry, unrest, cultural disintegration, forced removals, pain and suffering and reintegration, Mountains of Spirit reclaims the history of a people and evinces the fighting spirit and resilience of a resourceful community against immense odds.

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Download or read book The Legend of Secret Pass written by Melissa Davis and published by World Castle Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy must face his fears to become a legend… If his family had told him that he would one day be a legendary guardian of Secret Pass, Manu would have laughed in their faces. Guardian, ha! All twelve-year-old Manu wanted to do was off-road race with his truck Windflier. When a strange dark magic makes its way through the mesa, Manu finds himself surrounded by dust devils, thunderbirds, and a ragtag group of animals that are trying to make their way to Natocchue, a place that protects animals from the outside world. His family is harboring a deep secret that is filled with magic and mystery, one that Manu isn’t sure he is ready for, but the woman in the wind has chosen him to be the next guardian. When the sinister Calabar uses his mystical powers on Manu and his family, it is up to Manu to save the day. Will he be able to keep Calabar from stealing the magic song the woman in the wind has entrusted him with or will Calabar gain entrance to Natocchue and end life as they knew it?

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Download or read book Cherry Ames Ski Nurse Mystery written by Helen Wells and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cherry Ames is thrilled to be working in a picturesque ski resort town in the Swiss Alps. The town's only doctor has employed her to assist him in his ten-bed hospital. Within 24 hours after starting her new assignment, Cherry encounters a hostile, menacing patient who seeks emergency medical care at the hospital. A few days later, other suspicious persons turn up at the hotel where she is living, and Cherry finds herself deeply enmeshed in an unknown danger. Val Nicholas, a handsome ski instructor, helps Cherry to track down the source of the mysterious danger. Together, Val and Cherry undertake a perilous journey on skies, to protect her own life and to save the life of a sick man who is being victimized. It takes all of the vivacious and pretty young nurse's courage and stamina to expose an ingenious racket and trap a group of ruthless criminals.

Download or read book Evolution of a Movement written by Tracy E. Perkins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : environmental justice activism then and now -- Emergence of the disruptive environmental justice movement -- The institutionalization of the environmental justice movement -- Explaining the changes in environmental justice activism -- Case study of community activism in changing times : Kettleman City -- Case study of policy advocacy : California climate change Bill AB 32 -- Conclusion : Dilemmas of contemporary environmental justice activism -- Appendix : Arguments for and against the environmental justice lawsuit brought against the California Air Resources Board.

Download or read book The Mountains of My Life written by Walter Bonatti and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary mountaineer describes his adventures in such ranges as the Alps and Himalayas, and provides details of what really happened during a controversial 1954 Italian expedition that made the first ascent of K2.