Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736755803
Cold Mountain Path
Tom Kizzia
Cold Mountain Path
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Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
Author : Charles Frazier
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197177
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Pdf
A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Cold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska
Tom Kizzia
Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Porphyry Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1736755811
Cold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska by Tom Kizzia Pdf
We all have ghost towns. Impermanent places we dream of returning to. Here was Alaska's. In 1938, the last copper train left the Wrangell Mountains. But the spirit of the old days-free-wheeling, self-reliant, bounty-blessed-lived on in the remote town of McCarthy. The valley's few holdouts were joined over time by a gallery of prospectors, grifters, back-to-the-landers, dreamers, escape artists, hippies, speculators, preachers, and outlaws. While the rest of Alaska boomed in the new oil age, an old and makeshift way of life persisted against the quiet undertow of the past, that ebbing toward the wilderness that was here before us. Then the modern world found its way back in. A road, a bridge, a national park. A mass shooting that left six dead. Cold Mountain Path is a deeply American saga of renunciation and renewal--a rollicking local history that is also a lyrical exploration of time, loss, and change. . . and a pulsating account of the morning that brought Alaska's ghost town decades to an end. Tom Kizzia's previous book, Pilgrim's Wilderness, was an Amazon Top-Ten Book of the Year and was named Alaska's best True Crime book by the New York Times. Kizzia has written for The New Yorker and was a longtime reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. He has a place of his own near McCarthy.
Pilgrim's Wilderness
Tom Kizzia
Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307587831
Pilgrim's Wilderness by Tom Kizzia Pdf
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
Cold Mountain
Hanshan,Columbia University
Author : Hanshan,Columbia University
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : 0231034490
Cold Mountain by Hanshan,Columbia University Pdf
The Wake of the Unseen Object
Tom Kizzia
Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781602234307
The Wake of the Unseen Object by Tom Kizzia Pdf
A journey to Alaska’s remote roadless villages, during a time of great historical transition, brings us this enduring portrait of a place and its people. Alutiiq, Yup’ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan subjects reveal themselves as entirely contemporary individuals with deep longings and connection to the land and to their past. Tom Kizzia’s account of his travels off the Alaska road system, first published in 1991, has endured with a sterling reputation for its thoughtful, poetic, unflinching engagement with the complexity of Alaska’s rural communities. Wake of the Unseen Object is now considered some of the finest nonfiction writing about Alaska. This new edition includes an updated introduction by the author, looking at what remains the same after thirty years and what is different—both in Alaska, and in the expectations placed on a reporter visiting from another world.
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
Gary Snyder
Author : Gary Snyder
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781582436968
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder Pdf
By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, have been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the fiftieth anniversary of that groundbreaking book we celebrate with this edition. A small press reprint of that book included Snyder's translations of Han Shan's Cold Mountain Poems, perhaps the finest translations of that remarkable poet ever made into English. Reintroducing one of the twentieth century's foremost collections of poetry, this edition will please those already familiar with this work and excite a new generation of readers with its profound simplicity and spare elegance.
The Complete Cold Mountain
Kazuaki Tanahashi,Peter Levitt,Han Shan
Author : Kazuaki Tanahashi,Peter Levitt,Han Shan
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781611804263
The Complete Cold Mountain by Kazuaki Tanahashi,Peter Levitt,Han Shan Pdf
A fresh translation--and new envisioning--of the most accessible and beloved of all classic Chinese poetry. Welcome to the magical, windswept world of Cold Mountain. These poems from the literary riches of China have long been celebrated by cultures of both East and West—and continue to be revered as among the most inspiring and enduring works of poetry worldwide. This groundbreaking new translation presents the full corpus of poetry traditionally associated with Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”) and sheds light on its origins and authorship like never before. Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt honor the contemplative Buddhist elements of this classic collection of poems while revealing Hanshan’s famously jubilant humor, deep love of solitude in nature, and overwhelming warmth of heart. In addition, this translation features the full Chinese text of the original poems and a wealth of fascinating supplements, including traditional historical records, an in-depth study of the Cold Mountain poets (here presented as three distinct authors), and more.
Cold Mountain Poems
Han Shan
Author : Han Shan
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781611806984
Cold Mountain Poems by Han Shan Pdf
The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, these legendary T’ang era (618–907) figures are portrayed as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry on stones, trees, farmhouses, and the walls of the monasteries they visited. Their poetry expressed in the simplest verse but in a completely new tone, the voice of ordinary people. Here premier translator J. P. Seaton takes a fresh look at these captivating poets, along with Wang Fan-chih, another “outsider” poet who lived a couple centuries later and who captured the poverty and gritty day-to-day reality of the common people of his time. Seaton’s comprehensive introduction and notes throughout give a fascinating context to this vibrant collection.
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267450
The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pdf
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Thirteen Moons
Charles Frazier
Author : Charles Frazier
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307366436
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier Pdf
This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life. At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins – for a brief moment – a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will’s destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians – including a Cherokee Chief named Bear – he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee’s homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that “only desire trumps time.” Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man’s passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man’s destiny over the many moons of a life.
Cold Mountain Poems
Gary Snyder
Author : Gary Snyder
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619022133
Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder Pdf
In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23, enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of one of his professors, Chen Shih–hsiang, he began to work on translating a largely unknown poet by the name of Han Shan, a writer with whom the professor thought Snyder might feel a special affinity. The results were magical. As Patrick Murphy noted, "These poems are something more than translations precisely because Snyder renders them as a melding of Han Shan's Chinese Ch'an Buddhist mountain spirit trickster mentality and Snyder's own mountain wilderness meditation and labor activities." The suite of 24 poems was published in the 1958 issue of The Evergreen Review, and the career of one of America's greatest poets was launched. In 1972, Press–22 issued a beautiful edition of these poems written out by hand in italic by Michael McPherson. We are doing a new augments edition based on the old, with a new design, a preface by Lu Ch'iu–yin, and an afterword by Mr. Snyder where he discusses how he came to this work and what it meant to his development as a writer and Buddhist. On May 11, 2012, for the Stronach Memorial Lecture at The University of California, more than fifty years after his days there as a student, Snyder offered a public lecture reflecting on Chinese poetry, Han Shan, and his continuing work as a poet and Translated by. This remarkable occasion was recorded and we are including a CD of it in our edition, making this the most definitive edition of Cold Mountain Poems ever published.
Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains
Reb Anderson
Author : Reb Anderson
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781930485105
Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains by Reb Anderson Pdf
A collection of dharma talks, Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains explores the life of passionate commitment that lies at the heart of the formal practice of Zen meditation. Reb Anderson draws on over thirty years of experience as a Zen priest, exploring Buddhist yoga and psychology and the relationship of wisdom and compassion to the personal, social, and ecological crises of our time. At once inspirational and practical, he bows to an ancient tradition as he helps us to forge a modern-day Buddhism that urges us "to sit still in the middle of all living beings."
Below Cold Mountain
Joseph Stroud
Author : Joseph Stroud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015047111045
Below Cold Mountain by Joseph Stroud Pdf
In The First Law of Thermodynamics, he writes: " ... ashes stuffed in shotgun shells. They walked through the woods and fired aimlessly into the trees--he came down everywhere in a powdery rain ... the memory of a boy walking under trees showering him with leaves."
Down The Mountain Path
Leah Banicki
Author : Leah Banicki
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798771306902
Down The Mountain Path by Leah Banicki Pdf
Spring 1854 "Don't leave me behind." Trisha was running away, and her sister's tearful plea stopped her cold. Two young girls flee into the cold dark night, escaping a tragic life of neglect and misery. An icy rain is pounding on Trisha and Winnie. They have nothing but a few carrots and a threadbare blanket and they are being pursued. They are doomed to a life of misery and starvation if they stay. The enduring story of courage and faith continues. Take a stroll through town with Clive... Sit and stitch with Laney, Daisy and Sophia... Go along with Dolly and Corinne as they use their healing hands and medicine on those who need help. Join Sheriff Nigel Tudor as he seeks to end injustice. The Wildflower Series continues forward, telling the pioneer stories of the brave people who risked everything to have a chance for peace and prosperity. Curl up with your Kindle and enjoy...
