Download or read book Thieving Forest written by Martha Conway and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a humid day in June 1806, on the edge of Ohio's Great Black Swamp, seventeen-year-old Susanna Quiner watches from behind a tree as a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin. With both her parents dead from Swamp Fever and all the other settlers out in their fields, Susanna rashly decides to pursue them herself. What follows is a young woman's quest to find her sisters, and the parallel story of her sisters' new lives. Over the next five months, Susanna tans hides in a Moravian missionary village; escapes down a river with a young native girl; discovers an eccentric white woman raising chickens in the middle of the Great Black Swamp; and becomes a servant in a Wyandot village longhouse. The man who loves her, Seth Spendlove, is in pursuit after he realizes that his father was involved in the kidnapping. Part Potawatomi himself but living a white man's life, Seth unwittingly sets off on his own quest to reclaim his heritage. He allies himself with a Potawatomi named Koman, one of the band of men who originally abducted the Quiner sisters, but who now wishes to make his own retribution. Together they canoe through the Black Swamp and into enemy territory looking for Susanna, and while they travel Koman teaches Seth about their shared heritage. As Susanna makes her way through Thieving Forest and across the Great Black Swamp, she transforms into a capable woman who endures starvation, snakebite, and leech-infested waters in order to find her family. And against all odds she does find them, although they too have changed: one has found religion, one has fallen in love with a Native American and lives with his family, and one has been sold to a brutal backwoodsman. Both a quest tale and a tale of personal transformations, Thieving Forest follows an eclectic set of characters tackling the wildness of life in frontier America. Fast-paced, richly detailed, with a panoramic view of cultures and people, this is a story of a bygone era sure to enthrall and delight.
Download or read book The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden written by Phyllis Granoff and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories collected in this volume reflect the rich tradition of medieval Jain storytelling between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, from simple folk tales and lives of famous monks to sophisticated narratives of rebirth. They describe they ways in which a path to peace and bliss can be found, either by renouncing the world or by following Jain ethics of non-violence, honesty, moderation and fidelity. Here are stories depicting the painful consequences when a loved one chooses life as a monk, the triumph of Jain women who win over their husbands to their religion, or the rewards of a simple act of piety. The volume ends with an account of vice and virtue, which depict the thieving and destructive passions lurking in the forest of life, ready to rob the unsuspecting traveller of reason and virtue.
Download or read book Garden and Forest written by Charles Sprague Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal of horticulture, landscape art, and forestry.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Stories written by Александр Фомич Вельтман and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.F. Veltman, a prolific but largely forgotten 19th-century Russian writer, played a significant role in the development of Russian literature, influencing Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky and others. These five stories provide a brief by representative sampling of his output.
Download or read book The Stranger in the Woods written by Michael Finkel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. “A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival.” —The Wall Street Journal In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life—why did he leave? what did he learn?—as well as the challenges he has faced since returning to the world. It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded.
Download or read book Forest Leaves written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce Manufactures Etc of Their Consular Districts written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond written by Shu-mei Shih and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates Taiwan’s indigenous knowledge in comparative contexts across other indigenous knowledge formations. The content is divided into four distinct but interrelated sections to highlight the importance and diversity of indigenous knowledge in Taiwan and beyond. It begins with an exploration of the recent development and construction of an indigenous knowledge and educational system in Taiwan, as well as issues concerning research ethics and indigenous knowledge. This is followed by a section that illustrates diverse forms of indigenous knowledge, and in turn, a theoretical dialogue between indigenous studies and settler colonial studies. Lastly, the Paiwan indigenous author Dadelavan Ibau’s trans-indigenous journey to Tibet rounds out the coverage. This book is useful to readers in indigenous, settler colonial, and decolonial studies around the world, not just because it offers substantive content on indigenous knowledge in Taiwan, but also because it offers conceptual tools for studying indigenous knowledge from comparative and relational perspectives. It also greatly benefits anyone interested in Taiwan studies, offering an ethical approach to indigeneity in a classic settler colony.
Download or read book Annual Report written by Queensland. Dept. of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thief and His Master written by Brothers Grimm and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father wanted his son to learn something that would be advantageous for him. And so he decided that theft would be a great trade. He sent his son to a master thief and they agreed that if the father recognized his son after an year, he would not have to pay. The father came up a plan, he and his son managed to trick the master thief and they slipped to pay. The thief is however not a stupid man so he knows very well how to get his revenge. Children and adults alike, immerse yourselves into Grimm’s world of folktales and legends! Come, discover the little-known tales and treasured classics in this collection of 210 fairy tales. Brothers Grimm are probably the best-known storytellers in the world. Some of their most popular fairy tales are "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Red Riding Hood" and there is hardly anybody who has not grown up with the adventures of Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel and Snow White. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s exceptional literature legacy consists of recorded German and European folktales and legends. Their collections have been translated into all European languages in their lifetime and into every living language today.
Download or read book Indigenous Forest Management In the Andaman and Nicobar Islands India written by Kavita Arora and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an extensive study of indigenous communities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, and their methods of forest conservation, along with an exploration of the impact of forestry operations in the islands and the wide scale damage they have incurred on both the land and the people. Through an in-depth analysis of the contrasting indigenous practices and governmental forestry schemes, the author has compared the modern ‘Joint Forest Management’ resolution with the ethos and practices of the indigenous people of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Throughout the book, readers will learn about the different indigenous communities inhabiting these islands and the treasure of knowledge each of them provide on forest conservation. The book establishes that the notion of knowledge is politicized by the dominant culture in the context of Andaman’s forest tribes, and traces how this denial of the existence of indigenous knowledge by government officials has led to reduced forest area in the region. The book also explores and analyses strategies to utilize and conserve the tribes' profound knowledge of the biodiversity of the islands and study their efforts towards forest conservation, protection and rejuvenation.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of State Forests written by New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Forest Commission of the State of New York written by New York (State). Forest Commission and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compendium of laws relative to the Adirondack wilderness from 1774-1894": 1893, v. 2.
Download or read book American Forests and Forest Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by Queensland. Department of Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Forestry Congress written by American Forestry Association and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
