Download or read book White Cloud Mountain written by Grace Chia and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All her life, Audrey has done what is expected of her, following her father’s footsteps into the civil service, the “iron rice bowl” of Singapore. When a chance opportunity arises to attend a writing retreat in the Wonju mountains of South Korea, she grabs it, not knowing what to expect. Unexplainable things soon start happening to her, while a long-buried memory surfaces, threatening to unravel her calm and carefully-orchestrated world.

Download or read book Green Mountain White Cloud written by Francois Cheng and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It opens to a spring day, when a middle-aged doctor named Dao-sheng leaves the mountaintop Taoist monastery where he has been living and sets out for the Region of the South, to the city he had once visited thirty years earlier and where his life had been irrevocably changed. He had then been a strapping but poor young musician traveling with a theater troupe. One evening, during a performance, he caught the eye of a well-born young woman named Lan-ying. Their contact lasted but a minute, but to them it felt like an eternity. For this act of audacity he was banished to hard labor by the girl's jealous fiance, the dissipated scion of a powerful family, who had witnessed their exchange and grasped its significance. Across the decades of a life spent either on the run or hiding out in monasteries, where he mastered medicine and divination, Dao-sheng never forgot Lan-ying. One exchange of glances had sealed something forever, something whose enduring power would decide their fates."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Cloud Mountain written by Aimee E. Liu and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California, 1906. Hope Newfield and Leong Po-yo fall in love. Defying every taboo, this independent American woman and aristocratic Chinaman marry. But in the coming years, as they move from San Francisco to China, their love is tested by prejudice, conflicting loyalties and different traditions.

Download or read book Mountain in the Clouds written by Bruce Brown and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the struggle to protect Northwest salmon runs and the urgency of the fight against environmental deterioration escalates, Mountain in the Clouds remains an important and illuminating story, as timely now as when it was first written. The 1995 edition includes a selection of historical photographs.

Download or read book Cloud s Legacy written by Ginger Kathrens and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginger Kathrens continues the saga of the wild horses of the Arrowheads in Cloud’s Legacy, a companion volume to PBS’s NATURE program. An award-winning wildlife documentary filmmaker, Kathryns is passionate about the plight of wild horses in North America, and it is with great joy that she watches the cast of Cloud’s Legacy run and interact freely on America’s wide open spaces. Her great story-telling abilities are beautifully enhanced by the exciting color photography that adorns each chapter of this handsome volume. The cast of characters in this saga has expanded beyond the first Cloud documentary to include over thirty different horses (all of which are listed in the appendix of the book). The story is told in 22 engaging chapters that follow Cloud and his growing family through their real-life adventures in the Rocky Mountains. Kathrens’s documentaries about Cloud, his cohorts, and family won the CINE Golden Eagle Awards, Chicago International Television Competition, U.S. International Film and Video Festival, and the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.

Download or read book Cloud hidden Whereabouts Unknown written by Alan Watts and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ("a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest" —Deepak Chopra) ruminates on the philosophy of nature, ecology, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysics. Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, CA, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown is Watts’s meditation on the art of feeling out and following the watercourse way of nature, known in Chinese as the Tao. Embracing a form of contemplative meditation that allows us to stop analyzing our experiences and start living in to them, the book explores themes such as the natural world, established religion, race relations, karma and reincarnation, astrology and tantric yoga, the nature of ecstasy, and much more.

Download or read book Hidden Chance written by Ron Gamer and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie and her new friend Buddy stumble upon a mysterious stash of stolen goods. But when Buddy crashes his ultralight into a lake, Jessie recruits her old pal Travis to help solve the mystery. Where did the stolen goods come from? Who is the peculiar man? And what dark secret lies beneath it all? Readers of all ages will love this novel, part of Ron Gamer's outdoor adventure series.

Download or read book Burying the Mountain written by Shangyang Fang and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy’s desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers, and loneliness finds its place in the wounded openness of language. From the surface of a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting to a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, these poems thread intimacy, eros, and grief. Evoking the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a single brushstroke on the silk scroll, where names are forgotten as paper boats on water.

Download or read book Canyon Mountain Cloud written by Tyra Olstad and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we seek and what do we find when we visit parks and protected areas? What does it mean to become so deeply attached to a beautiful, wild place that it becomes part of one's identity? And why does it matter if a particular landscape doesn't speak to one's soul? Part memoir and part scholarly analysis of the psychological and societal dimensions of place-creation, Canyon, Mountain, Cloud details the author's experiences working and living in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Denali National Park and Preserve, Adirondack State Park, and arctic Alaska. Along the way, Olstad explores canyons, climbs mountains, watches clouds, rafts rivers, searches for fossils, and protects rare and fragile vegetation. She learns and shares local natural and cultural histories, questions perceptions of "wilderness," deepens her appreciation for wildness, and reshapes her understanding of self and self-in-place. Anyone who has ever felt appreciation for wild places and who wants to think more deeply about individual and societal relationships with American parks and protected areas will find humor, fear, provocation, wonder, awe, and, above all, inspiration in these pages.

Download or read book East Branch Lincoln Railroad written by Erin Paul Donovan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built by James Everell Henry, the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad (EB&L) is considered to be the grandest and largest logging railroad operation ever built in New England. In 1892, the mountain town of Lincoln, New Hampshire, was transformed from a struggling wilderness enclave to a thriving mill town when Henry moved his logging operation from Zealand. He built houses, a company store, sawmills, and a railroad into the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River watershed to harvest virgin spruce. Despite the departure of the last EB&L log train from Lincoln Woods by 1948, the industry's cut-and-run practices forever changed the future of land conservation in the region, prompting legislation like the Weeks Act of 1911 and the Wilderness Act of 1964. Today, nearly every trail in the Pemigewasset Wilderness follows or utilizes portions of the old EB&L Railroad bed.

Download or read book Mountain Lines written by Jonathan Arlan and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times best summer travel book recommendation A nonfiction debut about an American’s solo, month-long, 400-mile walk from Lake Geneva to Nice. In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Restless, bored, and daydreaming of adventure, he comes across an image on the Internet one day: a map of the southeast corner of France with a single red line snaking south from Lake Geneva, through the jagged brown and white peaks of the Alps to the Mediterranean sea—a route more than four hundred miles long. He decides then and there to walk the whole trail solo. Lacking any outdoor experience, completely ignorant of mountains, sorely out of shape, and fighting last-minute nerves and bad weather, things get off to a rocky start. But Arlan eventually finds his mountain legs—along with a staggering variety of aches and pains—as he tramps a narrow thread of grass, dirt, and rock between cloud-collared, ice-capped peaks in the High Alps, through ancient hamlets built into hillsides, across sheep-dotted mountain pastures, and over countless cols on his way to the sea. In time, this simple, repetitive act of walking for hours each day in the remote beauty of the mountains becomes as exhilarating as it is exhausting. Mountain Lines is the stirring account of a month-long journey on foot through the French Alps and a passionate and intimate book laced with humor, wonder, and curiosity. In the tradition of trekking classics like A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Snow Leopard, and Tracks, the book is a meditation on movement, solitude, adventure, and the magnetic power of the natural world.

Download or read book White Mountain Wilderness written by Jerry Monkman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous tribute to the White Mountains in pictures and words

Download or read book The White Mountain written by Dan Szczesny and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Informative, funny, and full of fascinating characters...Dan Szczesny bushwhacks a fresh, new, wonder-filled trail." -From the foreword by Rebecca Rule Over the course of one calendar year, journalist Dan Szczesny explored the history and mystique of New England's tallest mountain. But Mount Washington is more than just a 6,288-foot rock pile; the mountain is the cultural soul of climbers, hikers, and tourists from around the world.Szczesny's research took him outside of the archives; he was on the team of a ninety-seven-year-old ultra-runner, he dressed as Walt Whitman and read poetry while hiking up the mountain, and he spent a week in winter cooking for the scientists at the observatory. In The White Mountain, Szczesny turns a veteran journalist's eye toward exploring Mount Washington's place in the collective consciousness of the country and how this rugged landscape has reflected back a timeless history of our obsession and passion for exploration and discovery.

Download or read book My White Clouds written by D. Bacas and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My White Clouds by D. G. Bacas is the true account of a young girl in rural Greece and, after her arrival in America, of her life in this country in the early twentieth-century. D. G. Bacas is the daughter of Eleni Louvis, the central character. Ms. Bacas based this book-part memoir, part cultural history-on her mother's journals. The clouds that soared above her family home in her mountain village near Sparta inspired Eleni's title, My White Clouds. She imagined that these clouds traveled across the ocean to the land of her dreams-America-and that one day she would live there. The author has interwoven Eleni's keen observations with her own research to create a lively narrative that transports the reader to rural Greece and then to America. Her stories contain vivid descriptions of the daily lives of the villagers-their customs and their close connections to school, church, the land, and the natural world. Their lives were enriched by deeply revered religious rituals and the teachings of the Greek Orthodox Church as well as the history, legends, and myths of ancient Greece. Children were taught to value and honor their heritage, and mythical and historical references (and superstitions) found their way into casual conversations. The reader learns about the social hierarchy and the dynamics of village life through the colorful gossip of the women. And there are stories of romance and courtship and marriage-and the important roles played by the village priest and the matchmaker. In the later chapters Eleni, ever resourceful and eager to learn, absorbs the customs and the language of her adopted country. The reader gains an understanding of the lives of these hard-working immigrants, who fervently believed in the American Dream, and who eventually achieved it. Each chapter begins with a Greek proverb that relates to its events and theme. Additional features are a glossary of Greek words and idioms; a list of the many colorful characters; Eleni's favorite recipes; and family photos.

Download or read book Every Moving Thing that Lives Shall be Food written by Grace Chia and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America written by Art Burrows and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America is a large-format compilation of iconic and aesthetic ski descents from Alaska to Mount Washington. Created by ski mountaineers Chris Davenport, Art Burrows and Penn Newhard, Fifty Classic Ski Descents taps into the local knowledge of contributors such as Andrew McLean, Glen Plake, Lowell Skoog, Chic Scott and Ptor Spricenieks with first person descriptions of their favorite ski descents and insightful perspectives on ski mountaineering past, present and future. The book features 208 pages of gorgeous action and mountain images from many of North America's top photographers. Whether you are planning an expedition to Baffin Island's Polar Star Couloir or heading out for dawn patrol on Mount Superior, Fifty Classic Ski Descents is a visual and inspirational feast of ski mountaineering in North America.

Download or read book White Cloud Mountain Minnow Care written by Fish Care Manuals and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Cloud Mountain Minnow Care: The Complete Guide to Caring for and Keeping White Cloud Mountain Minnow as Pet Fish The White Cloud Mountain Minnow (scientifically known as Tanichthys Albonubes) is a hardy species of freshwater fish that can survive easily in cold waters. The species is a member of the Cyprinidae family which means that it is a distant relative of the Koi Carp! The White Cloud Mountain Minnow originates from China and were first discovered at the White Cloud Mountain (hence the name). Sadly they are almost extinct within their natural habitat due to the pollution created by industrialization and the tourism trade. It was believed that the species went extinct in the 1980s but the fish was found on the Hainan Island in the early 2000s! The White Cloud Mountain Minnow is still a thriving species as they are popular pets and have therefore been kept alive by the home aquarium trade. The species has several different colorations due to the domesticated breeding process. Their colorations range from a silvery color with bright red edges to a rosy golden color with a pinky red coloration displayed on all its fins. Here at Fish Care Manuals we are passionate about fish care. As a brand we have a strong idea of what makes up a good fish care book. We have consulted with multiple experts in the field of fish caring to allow us to create a book filled with cumulative opinions and best practices. The experts we consult range from veterinarians to every day fish keepers who have had years of experience caring for the specific fish each book is on. Our aim, and mission, is to produce the best possible fish care books that are a great value for money. Tags: WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW, WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW care, WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW fish, WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW fish care, WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW pet, WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW pet care, WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW pet fish, WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW aquarium, aquarium, fresh water, fresh, water, salt water, salt, tropical fish, tropical fish care, tropical pet fish, exotic, tropical, exotic fish, exotic fish care, exotic pet fish, aquarium maintenance, aquarium how to, best aquarium, fish food, WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW care guide, WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW care manual, how to look after WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW, best practice to care for WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOW, fish care for beginners,