A Son From The Mountains

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593115008

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My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Pdf

"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

Author : Andrew Mossin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : 1952419948

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A Son from the Mountains by Andrew Mossin Pdf

"Two broken families, fractured lives, prose that often reads like poetry and a deep understanding of what it feels like to be an adopted child, who experiences a complicated world beyond his control and of which he never really feels a part. This is Andrew Mossin's heartbreaking memoir, an adoption story that is raw, revealing and painful, about the presence of someone he never knew and the struggle to find his place with the parents who raised him. Although every adoptee's story and journey can widely vary, there are some constant refrains and some universal themes: Who am I? Where do I belong? Will I ever feel that I do? Without judgment or complaint, Mossin takes you on his journey, brings you into his world, and lets you experience it as he did. It is without sentimentality, but it is with an enormous amount of heart and honesty that he lays his young life bare. You feel for the child that he was and walk away wishing the story would continue so that his readers could know, after the challenges he faced as a youngster, how he prevailed and made his life the success that it is today"--

Author : William Wayne Dicksion
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595504442

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Puma Son of Mountain Lion by William Wayne Dicksion Pdf

Puma Son of Mountain Lion is a half-Indian boy who is away from his village undergoing the rites of manhood. When he returns, he finds his village destroyed by a warring tribe and his family slain. His mother dies in his arms and her last words are: "Go find your father." Puma finds his father in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His father welcomes him with open arms and trains him in the white man's ways. Puma accompanies his family to visit his grandparents in Virginia and Georgia. He attends West Point and becomes a cavalry officer and placed in command of a troop charged with protecting a wagon train traveling from Independence to Santa Fe. In Santa Fe, he is directed to prevent white outlaw bands from taking the land that belongs to the early settlers and must also fight off renegade Apaches. A war is developing between the North and South, and he is concerned that it will destroy his father's families. A war is also brewing in the west and he does not want to be fighting against his own people. He is deeply torn about where his loyalties lie.

Author : Roman Dial
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062876621

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The Adventurer's Son by Roman Dial Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." —Anchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post), The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial’s extraordinary and widely acclaimed account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son’s disappearance in the jungles of Costa Rica. In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica’s remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack and machete. Before he left, Cody Roman Dial emailed his father: “I am not sure how long it will take me, but I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. I’ll be bounded by a trail to the west and the coast everywhere else, so it should be difficult to get lost forever.” They were the last words Dial received from his son. As soon as he realized Cody Roman’s return date had passed, Dial set off for Costa Rica. As he trekked through the dense jungle, interviewing locals and searching for clues—the authorities suspected murder—the desperate father was forced to confront the deepest questions about himself and his own role in the events. Roman had raised his son to be fearless, to be at home in earth’s wildest places, travelling together through rugged Alaska to remote Borneo and Bhutan. Was he responsible for his son’s fate? Or, as he hoped, was Cody Roman safe and using his wilderness skills on a solo adventure from which he would emerge at any moment? Part detective story set in the most beautiful yet dangerous reaches of the planet, The Adventurer’s Son emerges as a far deeper tale of discovery—a journey to understand the truth about those we love the most. The Adventurer’s Son includes fifty black-and-white photographs.

Author : Сергей Соловьев
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041557614

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Son of the Star, born of the Mountain Alexander the Great by Сергей Соловьев Pdf

Книга об Александре Македонском. Рассказывает о его свершениях, о том, на что намекал Арриан в своих “Деяниях”, но побоялся написать.

Author : R. Wally Johnson
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781922144232

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Fire Mountains of the Islands by R. Wally Johnson Pdf

Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : SRLF:AA0008770455

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The Scenery of the Catskill Mountains as Described by Irving, Cooper, Bryant, W.G. Clark, N.P. Willis, Miss Martineau, Tyrone Power, Park Benjamin, Thomas Cole, Bayard Taylor and Other Eminient Writers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy Silver
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780807863145

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Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains by Timothy Silver Pdf

Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged region. Timothy Silver explores the long and complicated history of the Black Mountains, drawing on both the historical record and his experience as a backpacker and fly fisherman. He chronicles the geological and environmental forces that created this intriguing landscape, then traces its history of environmental change and human intervention from the days of Indian-European contact to today. Among the many tales Silver recounts is that of Elisha Mitchell, the renowned geologist and University of North Carolina professor for whom Mount Mitchell is named, who fell to his death there in 1857. But nature's stories--of forest fires, chestnut blight, competition among plants and animals, insect invasions, and, most recently, airborne toxins and acid rain--are also part of Silver's narrative, making it the first history of the Appalachians in which the natural world gets equal time with human history. It is only by understanding the dynamic between these two forces, Silver says, that we can begin to protect the Black Mountains for future generations.

Author : SPS Studios
Publisher : Blue Mountain Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0883966123

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The Greatest Gift of All Is-- a Son Like You by SPS Studios Pdf

A son is an amazing combination of curiosity, daring, talents, and dreams. He grows up, but he always keeps some of the little boy he once was. He is your legacy to the future. In this book, every son will find something to reflect on and appreciate, in words that perfectly convey the love and pride in a parent's heart. The unique handmade paper used for the cover of this book is first crafted from mulberry trees and then hand-colored by artisans. Each book cover in this eloquent series is distinct and different, and the environment is not harmed in the making of this paper.

Author : Jason Moralee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190492281

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Rome's Holy Mountain by Jason Moralee Pdf

Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The hill was the setting of many of Rome's most beloved stories, involving Aeneas, Romulus, Tarpeia, and Manlius. It also held significant monuments, including the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, a location that marked the spot where Jupiter made the hill his earthly home in the age before humanity. This is the first book that follows the history of the Capitoline Hill into late antiquity and the early middle ages, asking what happened to a holy mountain as the empire that deemed it thus became a Christian republic. This is not a history of the hill's tonnage of marble and gold bedecked monuments, but rather an investigation into how the hill was used, imagined, and known from the third to the seventh centuries CE. During this time, the imperial triumph and other processions to the top of the hill were no longer enacted. But the hill persisted as a densely populated urban zone and continued to supply a bridge to fragmented memories of an increasingly remote past through its toponyms. This book is also about a series of Christian engagements with the Capitoline Hill's different registers of memory, the transmission and dissection of anecdotes, and the invention of alternate understandings of the hill's role in Roman history. What lingered long after the state's disintegration in the fifth century were the hill's associations with the raw power of Rome's empire.

Author : Patricia Wayant
Publisher : Blue Mountain
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1598429086

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A Son Is Life's Greatest Gift by Patricia Wayant Pdf

This new edition of a customer favorite is one that parents and sons everywhere will treasure for the heartfelt poems and reflections on what makes a son so great. It's all here... the magic of times and memories past, the feelings of pride and gratitude a son inspires every day, and the hopes, dreams, and wishes every parent has for their son. With writings by some of Blue Mountain Arts most beloved authors and many others, this is a book sons will read again and again... whether they are in need of encouragement, assurance, or simply a reminder of how much they are loved.

Author : George Meredith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : English fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435054474218

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The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith Pdf

This novel examines the theory that a wife is free to leave a husband who does not recognize her as an equal.

Author : Que Mai Phan Nguyen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643750491

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The Mountains Sing by Que Mai Phan Nguyen Pdf

The International Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice SelectionWinner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship "[An] absorbing, stirring novel . . . that, in more than one sense, remedies history." —The New York Times Book Review “A triumph, a novelistic rendition of one of the most difficult times in Vietnamese history . . . Vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore apart not just her beloved country, but also her family. Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope. The Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English.

Author : Susan Polis Schutz
Publisher : Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1598421727

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To My Daughter with Love by Susan Polis Schutz Pdf

This elegant new edition of Susan Polis Schutz's most beloved work includes the poems and advice of earlier editions, plus new poems inspired by her daughter growing up into a young woman and leaving home. Steven Schutz's sensitive ilustrations envelop Susan's poetry in an artistic expression of his love for his daughter and her mother. The result is a loving celebration of the joy and pride that all parents feel for their unique, beautiful daughters.

Author : Thomas B. H. Stenhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN : OXFORD:N10618720

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The Rocky Mountain Saints by Thomas B. H. Stenhouse Pdf