Author: Travis Wade Beaty
Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Old songs can bring new life. A beleaguered dryad in search of safe harbor in a land ravaged by an invasive fungus finds herself at odds with a young dryad who wields the blasphemous magic of men. The two of them must find a way to work together before a vicious sorcerer hunts them down and puts an end to them both.
Songs of a Dead Forest
Author: Travis Wade Beaty
Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Old songs can bring new life. A beleaguered dryad in search of safe harbor in a land ravaged by an invasive fungus finds herself at odds with a young dryad who wields the blasphemous magic of men. The two of them must find a way to work together before a vicious sorcerer hunts them down and puts an end to them both.
Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Old songs can bring new life. A beleaguered dryad in search of safe harbor in a land ravaged by an invasive fungus finds herself at odds with a young dryad who wields the blasphemous magic of men. The two of them must find a way to work together before a vicious sorcerer hunts them down and puts an end to them both.
The Songs of Trees
Author: David George Haskell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143111302
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING “Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science Friday The author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals. He takes us to trees in cities (from Manhattan to Jerusalem), forests (Amazonian, North American, and boreal) and areas on the front lines of environmental change (eroding coastlines, burned mountainsides, and war zones.) In each place he shows how human history, ecology, and well-being are intimately intertwined with the lives of trees. Scientific, lyrical, and contemplative, Haskell reveals the biological connections that underpin all life. In a world beset by barriers, he reminds us that life’s substance and beauty emerge from relationship and interdependence.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143111302
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING “Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science Friday The author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals. He takes us to trees in cities (from Manhattan to Jerusalem), forests (Amazonian, North American, and boreal) and areas on the front lines of environmental change (eroding coastlines, burned mountainsides, and war zones.) In each place he shows how human history, ecology, and well-being are intimately intertwined with the lives of trees. Scientific, lyrical, and contemplative, Haskell reveals the biological connections that underpin all life. In a world beset by barriers, he reminds us that life’s substance and beauty emerge from relationship and interdependence.
Returnees of the Dead Forest
Author: Wisdom Eli Kojo Hammond
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148365768X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
When Kuku first heard of the great hunters and warriors and their voyage into the forest beyond the mountains and never returned, his childish wish was to find out the truth behind the story. The perceptions about the flora and fauna were negative. The forest was believed to harbor wild animals. The dead forest. The devils vineyard. The inhabitants were against him, but Kuku was bent on finding out more about their ancestors of blessed memory. Follow him through the story full of suspense as he uncovers the mysteries in the dead forest.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148365768X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
When Kuku first heard of the great hunters and warriors and their voyage into the forest beyond the mountains and never returned, his childish wish was to find out the truth behind the story. The perceptions about the flora and fauna were negative. The forest was believed to harbor wild animals. The dead forest. The devils vineyard. The inhabitants were against him, but Kuku was bent on finding out more about their ancestors of blessed memory. Follow him through the story full of suspense as he uncovers the mysteries in the dead forest.
The Job
Author: Joshua Ramey-Renk
Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Cal Oakenflame is a mage on a mission. Sent to the town of Harrison to deal with threats to its livestock, Cal meets the sassy and self-controlled Petra, and discovers that the thefts of the livestock are more than they seem. When Cal rescues Petra, kidnapped by sheep-stealing bandits, they uncover a plot to take over the town, led by a mysterious Preacher.
Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Cal Oakenflame is a mage on a mission. Sent to the town of Harrison to deal with threats to its livestock, Cal meets the sassy and self-controlled Petra, and discovers that the thefts of the livestock are more than they seem. When Cal rescues Petra, kidnapped by sheep-stealing bandits, they uncover a plot to take over the town, led by a mysterious Preacher.
Beyond the Dead Forest
Author: Steve Groll
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161566436X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Carter and Kat think they know every tree, river, and rock within five miles of their homes, but this section of wood, completely devoid of life, was not supposed to exist. Stepping through a doorway into a bizarre world filled with darkness, terror, and death, they embark on a quest to discover the greatest treasure of all.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161566436X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Carter and Kat think they know every tree, river, and rock within five miles of their homes, but this section of wood, completely devoid of life, was not supposed to exist. Stepping through a doorway into a bizarre world filled with darkness, terror, and death, they embark on a quest to discover the greatest treasure of all.
Songs for Dead Parents
Author: Erik Mueggler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022648100X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A community's rituals and practices surrounding death are one of its foremost ways of making sense of itself and its relationship to the passage of time. Historical time, in particular, with its attendant social and political shifts, is most directly experienced and reckoned with through those whom time leaves behind, the men and women whose lives come to form that community's past. In Songs for Dead Parents, distinguished anthropologist Erik Mueggler investigates death in a mountain community in Yunnan Province, which he studied over a period spanning two decades. Through evocative analyses of the community's rituals, exchanges, laments, and chants, Mueggler shows how their way of thinking and feeling the passage of time and the loss of life is rooted in the landscape surrounding them and the raw materials it provides. These materials give new substance to the dead, as they transform from body to effigy to stone to text in a cycle of degeneration and regeneration that gives shape to the ongoing life of the community. In the wake of the disappearance of the socialist rituals that once gave people narrative structures with which to understand historical change, death rituals have become ways of coming to terms with that socialist past as well as ways of moving forward from it and creating new forms of meaning. What emerges from Mueggler's book is a powerful analysis of a praxis and poetics of grief, one whose personal and historical dimensions are profoundly intertwined. Written in an accessible language for multiple audiences, Songs for Dead Parents will appeal to anthropologists, historians, scholars of modern China, and any reader interested in how a community grieves, mourns, and endures.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022648100X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A community's rituals and practices surrounding death are one of its foremost ways of making sense of itself and its relationship to the passage of time. Historical time, in particular, with its attendant social and political shifts, is most directly experienced and reckoned with through those whom time leaves behind, the men and women whose lives come to form that community's past. In Songs for Dead Parents, distinguished anthropologist Erik Mueggler investigates death in a mountain community in Yunnan Province, which he studied over a period spanning two decades. Through evocative analyses of the community's rituals, exchanges, laments, and chants, Mueggler shows how their way of thinking and feeling the passage of time and the loss of life is rooted in the landscape surrounding them and the raw materials it provides. These materials give new substance to the dead, as they transform from body to effigy to stone to text in a cycle of degeneration and regeneration that gives shape to the ongoing life of the community. In the wake of the disappearance of the socialist rituals that once gave people narrative structures with which to understand historical change, death rituals have become ways of coming to terms with that socialist past as well as ways of moving forward from it and creating new forms of meaning. What emerges from Mueggler's book is a powerful analysis of a praxis and poetics of grief, one whose personal and historical dimensions are profoundly intertwined. Written in an accessible language for multiple audiences, Songs for Dead Parents will appeal to anthropologists, historians, scholars of modern China, and any reader interested in how a community grieves, mourns, and endures.
Songs From the Seashell Archives
Author: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing
ISBN: 1619505177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1972
Book Description
The six-volume set of the Songs From the Seashell Archives, all together as one volume! Magic, Dragons, Unicorns, Dastardly villains and more! Songs of the Seashell Archives is a six book collection of some of the finest fantasy writing you'll ever read. Includes Song of Sorcery; The Unicorn Creed; Bronwyn's Bane; The Christening Quest; The Dragon, The Witch, and the Railroad; and The Redundant Dragons.
Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing
ISBN: 1619505177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1972
Book Description
The six-volume set of the Songs From the Seashell Archives, all together as one volume! Magic, Dragons, Unicorns, Dastardly villains and more! Songs of the Seashell Archives is a six book collection of some of the finest fantasy writing you'll ever read. Includes Song of Sorcery; The Unicorn Creed; Bronwyn's Bane; The Christening Quest; The Dragon, The Witch, and the Railroad; and The Redundant Dragons.
Songs for the Dead Vol. 1
Author: Michael Christopher Heron
Publisher: Vault Comics
ISBN: 1638490597
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Bethany is a minstrel, a wanderer, and a would-be hero seeking adventure. She's also a reviled necromancer, hated and hunted by all. To prove her magic isn't evil, Bethany needs help from a murderous mercenary, in other words, a friend. FRIENDS. MAGIC. SWORDS. DEATH. AND LIFE (AGAIN). Bethany is a minstrel with a heart full of adventure, a would-be hero determined to find a missing boy from the town of Llyne, and a friend to all woodland critters. But mostly the dead ones...because Bethany is also a necromancer. She's out to prove her magic isn't evil, and she'll need the help of a hot-headed, sword-swinging mercenary named Elissar—that is, she'll need the help of a friend. Collects the complete four issue series.
Publisher: Vault Comics
ISBN: 1638490597
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Bethany is a minstrel, a wanderer, and a would-be hero seeking adventure. She's also a reviled necromancer, hated and hunted by all. To prove her magic isn't evil, Bethany needs help from a murderous mercenary, in other words, a friend. FRIENDS. MAGIC. SWORDS. DEATH. AND LIFE (AGAIN). Bethany is a minstrel with a heart full of adventure, a would-be hero determined to find a missing boy from the town of Llyne, and a friend to all woodland critters. But mostly the dead ones...because Bethany is also a necromancer. She's out to prove her magic isn't evil, and she'll need the help of a hot-headed, sword-swinging mercenary named Elissar—that is, she'll need the help of a friend. Collects the complete four issue series.
Rewriting the Rules
Author: Steven D. Brewer
Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
When peace is no longer possible, one must either run or go to war. Abandoned by the nobility, everything goes wrong for Revin and he makes a run for it, ready to give up all hope. But when confronted with the choice he must make, will his heart lead him true?
Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
When peace is no longer possible, one must either run or go to war. Abandoned by the nobility, everything goes wrong for Revin and he makes a run for it, ready to give up all hope. But when confronted with the choice he must make, will his heart lead him true?
British ballads and songs
Author: Vance Randolph
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826203007
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826203007
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description