Author: Publisher: IWMI
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Farmers' use of basin, furrow and bed-and-furrow irrigation systems and the possibilities for traditional farmers to adopt the bed-and furrow irrigation method
Author: The Furrows
Author: Namwali SerpellPublisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0593448928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • One of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize “A triumph.”—New York Magazine From one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a brilliantly inventive and “enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel about the eternal bonds of family and the mysteries of love and loss—“already earning its author comparisons to Toni Morrison” (Lit Hub). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Esquire, Vulture, Ms. Magazine, Vox, Mental Floss, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly I don’t want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt. Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when they’re alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can’t give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children. As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in bistros, airplane aisles, subway cars. Here is her brother’s face, the light in his eyes, the way he seems to recognize her, too. But it can’t be, of course. Or can it? Then one day, in another accident, C meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world. His name is Wayne. Namwali Serpell’s remarkable new novel captures the uncanny experience of grief, the way the past breaks over the present like waves in the sea. The Furrows is a bold exploration of memory and mourning that twists unexpectedly into a story of mistaken identity, double consciousness, and the wishful—and sometimes willful—longing for reunion with those we’ve lost.
Furrow Irrigation
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation canals and flumes
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Furrow Irrigation
Author: George A. LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation canals and flumes
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Contour-furrow Irrigation
Author: Karl O. KohlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contour farming
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Old Drift
Author: Namwali SerpellPublisher: Hogarth Press
ISBN: 1101907142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
"A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage."--Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - "Clear-eyed, energetic and richly entertaining."--The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Time - Tordotcom - Kirkus Reviews - BookPage 1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass, their lives--their triumphs, errors, losses and hopes--emerge through a panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. From a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts, microdrones and viral vaccines, this gripping, unforgettable novel is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders, and a meditation on the slow, grand passage of time. Praise for The Old Drift "An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic . . . This is a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "A founding epic in the vein of Virgil's Aeneid . . . though in its sprawling size, its flavor of picaresque comedy and its fusion of family lore with national politics it more resembles Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children."--The Wall Street Journal "A story that intertwines strangers into families, which we'll follow for a century, magic into everyday moments, and the story of a nation, Zambia."--NPR
The Horse in the Furrow
Author: George Ewart EvansPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571286887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Suffolk Punch - that sturdy, compact draft horse of noble ancestry - was, until mechanisation, the powerhouse of the East Anglian farming community. In The Horse in the Furrow (1960), renowned social historian George Ewart Evans explores this potent symbol of a bygone era, and the complex network - farmer, horseman, groom, smith, harness-maker and tailor - which surrounded it. Evans charts a fascinating course, demonstrating the connectedness of husbandry, custom and dialect, and arguing for an organic, inclusive study of these aspects of rural life. In particular, the section on folklore sheds light on some of the most obscure practices, with the Punch standing proudly at its centre. With beautiful illustrations by Charles Tunnicliffe, The Horse in the Furrow is an engaging and subtle portrait of an animal at the heart of its community
A Practical Method of Determining Proper Lengths of Runs, Sizes of Furrow Streams and Spacing of Furrows on Irrigation Lands
Author: Wayne D. CriddlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furrow irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Fiends in the Furrows
Author: David T. NealPublisher: Fiends in the Furrows
ISBN: 9781944286347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Fiends in the Furrows takes the bustling in the hedgerows and turns them into your darkest nightmares...this is an anthology that will stir up those primal fears that are ingrained in all of us." -Jim Mcleod, GingerNutsofHorror.com, JIM MCLEOD'S TOP HORROR BOOKS OF 2018Included on the Preliminary Ballot for the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards.Includes the stories "The Jaws of Ouroboros" by Steve Toase and "Back Along the Old Track" by Sam Hicks, both included in THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOLUME 11, Edited by Ellen Datlow.The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror is a collection of nine short stories that hew both to the earthy traditions and blaze new trails in Folk Horror.FEATURING:Coy Hall "Sire of the Hatchet"Sam Hicks "Back Along the Old Track"Lindsay King-Miller "The Fruit"Steve Toase "The Jaws of Ouroboros"Eric J. Guignard "The First Order of Whaleyville's Divine Basilisk Handlers"Romey Petite "Pumpkin, Dear"Stephanie Ellis "The Way of the Mother"Zachary Von Houser "Leave the Night"S.T. Gibson "Revival"Fans of Folk Horror, as well as those unfamiliar with it, will find horrors galore in these stories. Themes of rural isolation and insularity, paranoia, mindless and monstrous ritual, as well as arcane ceremonies clashing against modern preoccupations run through these stories. Nosetouch Press is proud to bring The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror to horror enthusiasts everywhere."...All the stories are well written, with huge gobbets of terror and weirdness running through their veins. With nine to choose from, you can sample taste from a literary buffet of varied writers' voices and styles, as each one elegantly creates its own fictional world with its own boundaries into which you, the reader, can step inside, visit and unlike some of the characters trapped within, you are allowed to leave. This is quite a privilege." -Alyson Rhodes, authorOne of the Top 15 Anthologies of 2018-Emily, BookHappy08
Furrow
Author: Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (Santo)Publisher:
ISBN: 9789783695368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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