Author: M.L. Gallagher
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1642983497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
How do we go home? Travel with Jason Emerson through the 1860s West in his efforts to heal his soul so he can go home. Trained as a sniper and assassin for the War Between the States, Jason travels west as a security guard for a cross-country freight company encountering Native Americans and outlaws. His wife, Carey, is always mindful of Jason's promise to come home as she suffers through her own soul-altering ordeals. At home in the mountains of West Virginia, she toils to keep the home fires burning. She learns to survive alone and takes on the challenge of operating the mountain farm that was their childhood dream. The child, Catherine Sawyer, becomes the source of their connection and ultimately brings Jason home. In the vein of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, M. L. Gallagher's Home will leave the reader inspired to learn more about the plight of some returning soldiers and their families left at home.
Home to Our Mountains
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
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Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Pages : 8
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Reading the Mountains of Home
Author: John Elder
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674748880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674748880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
Home Is Beyond the Mountains
Author: Celia Barker Lottridge
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554981905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554981905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Home
Author: M.L. Gallagher
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1642983497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
How do we go home? Travel with Jason Emerson through the 1860s West in his efforts to heal his soul so he can go home. Trained as a sniper and assassin for the War Between the States, Jason travels west as a security guard for a cross-country freight company encountering Native Americans and outlaws. His wife, Carey, is always mindful of Jason's promise to come home as she suffers through her own soul-altering ordeals. At home in the mountains of West Virginia, she toils to keep the home fires burning. She learns to survive alone and takes on the challenge of operating the mountain farm that was their childhood dream. The child, Catherine Sawyer, becomes the source of their connection and ultimately brings Jason home. In the vein of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, M. L. Gallagher's Home will leave the reader inspired to learn more about the plight of some returning soldiers and their families left at home.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1642983497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
How do we go home? Travel with Jason Emerson through the 1860s West in his efforts to heal his soul so he can go home. Trained as a sniper and assassin for the War Between the States, Jason travels west as a security guard for a cross-country freight company encountering Native Americans and outlaws. His wife, Carey, is always mindful of Jason's promise to come home as she suffers through her own soul-altering ordeals. At home in the mountains of West Virginia, she toils to keep the home fires burning. She learns to survive alone and takes on the challenge of operating the mountain farm that was their childhood dream. The child, Catherine Sawyer, becomes the source of their connection and ultimately brings Jason home. In the vein of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, M. L. Gallagher's Home will leave the reader inspired to learn more about the plight of some returning soldiers and their families left at home.
Two Trees Make a Forest
Author: Jessica J. Lee
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1646220005
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love" (Refinery29). A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities. Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre–shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1646220005
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love" (Refinery29). A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities. Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre–shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
The Home
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Cheerful Home Galop
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Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Pages : 6
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Catalog of Victor Records
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Category : Sound recordings
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Category : Sound recordings
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Victor Records
Author: Victor Talking Machine Company
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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You Can't Go Home Again
Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town, he is shaken by the force of outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and lifelong friends feel naked and exposed by what they have seen in his books, and their fury drives him from his home. Outcast, George Webber begins a search for his own identity. It takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Paris with an uninhibited group of expatriates; to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler's shadow.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town, he is shaken by the force of outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and lifelong friends feel naked and exposed by what they have seen in his books, and their fury drives him from his home. Outcast, George Webber begins a search for his own identity. It takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Paris with an uninhibited group of expatriates; to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler's shadow.