Author: Barbara Hurd
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033152X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In her observations of these muddy environments, she finds ample metaphor for human creativity, imagination, and fear.
Stirring the Mud
Author: Barbara Hurd
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033152X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In her observations of these muddy environments, she finds ample metaphor for human creativity, imagination, and fear.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033152X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In her observations of these muddy environments, she finds ample metaphor for human creativity, imagination, and fear.
Walking the Wrack Line
Author: Barbara Hurd
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331023
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
This final volume in the author's trilogy, which began with Stirring the Mud and Entering the Stone gives nature writing a human dimension and throws light on the mysterious and overlooked wonders on beaches as far-flung as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and Cape Cod.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331023
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
This final volume in the author's trilogy, which began with Stirring the Mud and Entering the Stone gives nature writing a human dimension and throws light on the mysterious and overlooked wonders on beaches as far-flung as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and Cape Cod.
Entering the Stone
Author: Barbara Hurd
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331538
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes these strange dark spaces come to light, illuminating the natural history and spiritual territory of caves as powerfully as Kathleen Norris portrayed the Dakotas. Entering the Stone provides an awe-inducing tour through a fragile and beautiful subterranean world.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331538
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes these strange dark spaces come to light, illuminating the natural history and spiritual territory of caves as powerfully as Kathleen Norris portrayed the Dakotas. Entering the Stone provides an awe-inducing tour through a fragile and beautiful subterranean world.
Mudbound
Author: Hillary Jordan
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565125698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565125698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
Mississippi Mud
Author: Edward Humes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671535056
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Documents governmental and political corruption in the Deep South through the story of a daughter who seeks justice when her parents are slain in Mississippi.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671535056
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Documents governmental and political corruption in the Deep South through the story of a daughter who seeks justice when her parents are slain in Mississippi.
Sharable Parables
Author: Steven James
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784716328
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Teach 15 parables in fun and fresh ways. There is 1 parable per chapter with multiple ideas such as drama, skits, and interactive activities for each age group. Enjoy this library of favorite Bible stories and storytelling techniques developed by award-winning author and professional storyteller Steven James. Each book includes creative storytelling techniques especially suited to help teachers tell God’s story and involve children in the Bible story.
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784716328
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Teach 15 parables in fun and fresh ways. There is 1 parable per chapter with multiple ideas such as drama, skits, and interactive activities for each age group. Enjoy this library of favorite Bible stories and storytelling techniques developed by award-winning author and professional storyteller Steven James. Each book includes creative storytelling techniques especially suited to help teachers tell God’s story and involve children in the Bible story.
The Distant Hours
Author: Kate Morton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439152799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Edie Burchill visits Milderhurst Castle where her mother stayed during World War II, discovering the three elderly sisters of the castle still alive but haunted by the secrets of their past life with their father, a famous children's author.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439152799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Edie Burchill visits Milderhurst Castle where her mother stayed during World War II, discovering the three elderly sisters of the castle still alive but haunted by the secrets of their past life with their father, a famous children's author.
Water Pollution Research ...
Author: Great Britain. Water Pollution Research Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Includes the report of the director of the Water Pollution Research Laboratory.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Includes the report of the director of the Water Pollution Research Laboratory.
Epilogues: Afterwords on the Planet
Author: Barbara Hurd
Publisher: Standing Stone Books
ISBN: 9781637609132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Literary Nonfiction. Hurd's brilliant book about climate change is also a book about storytelling, about paying attention to little, most invisible things that manage to survive without heroics, or the help of heroes. There are many books about climate change, but none like hers that deliver the bad goods with such unsentimental empathy.
Publisher: Standing Stone Books
ISBN: 9781637609132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Literary Nonfiction. Hurd's brilliant book about climate change is also a book about storytelling, about paying attention to little, most invisible things that manage to survive without heroics, or the help of heroes. There are many books about climate change, but none like hers that deliver the bad goods with such unsentimental empathy.
How it is
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802150660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802150660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.