Land Of Enchantment

Author : Leigh Stein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101982686

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Land of Enchantment by Leigh Stein Pdf

"[A] thoughtful and compelling elegy to a troubled man, a broken love, and a broken dream of the west."—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams An MSN Best Book of 2016 Set against the stark and surreal landscape of New Mexico, Land of Enchantment is a coming-of-age memoir about young love, obsession, and loss, and how a person can imprint a place in your mind forever. When Leigh Stein received a call from an unknown number in July 2011, she let it go to voice mail, assuming it would be her ex-boyfriend Jason. Instead, the call was from his brother: Jason had been killed in a motorcycle accident. He was twenty-three years old. She had seen him alive just a few weeks earlier. Leigh first met Jason at an audition for a tragic play. He was nineteen and troubled and intensely magnetic, a dead ringer for James Dean. Leigh was twenty-two and living at home with her parents, trying to figure out what to do with her young adult life. Within months, they had fallen in love and moved to New Mexico, the “Land of Enchantment,” a place neither of them had ever been. But what was supposed to be a romantic adventure quickly turned sinister, as Jason’s behavior went from playful and spontaneous to controlling and erratic, eventually escalating to violence. Now New Mexico was marked by isolation and the anxiety of how to leave a man she both loved and feared. Even once Leigh moved on to New York, throwing herself into her work, Jason and their time together haunted her. Land of Enchantment lyrically explores the heartbreaking complexity of why the person hurting you the most can be impossible to leave. With searing honesty and cutting humor, Leigh wrestles with what made her fall in love with someone so destructive and how to grieve a man who wasn’t always good to her.

Author : Marion Sloan Russell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786258038

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Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along The Santa Fé Trail by Marion Sloan Russell Pdf

Few of the great overland highways of America have known such a wealth of color and romance as that which surrounded the Santa Fé Trail. For over four centuries the dust-gray and muddy-red trail felt the moccasined tread of Comanches, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes. These soft footfalls were replaced by the bold harsh clang of the armored conqueror, Coronado, and by a host of Spanish explorers and soldiers seeking the gold of fabled Quivira. Black and brown-robed priests, armed only with the cross, were followed in turn by bearded buckskin-clad fur traders and mountain men, by canny Indian traders, and lean, weather-beaten drovers with great herds of long-horned cattle. [...] The story dictated in such vivid detail by Marian Sloan Russell is a unique and valuable eyewitness account by a sensitive, intelligent girl who grew to maturity on the kaleidoscopic Santa Fé Trail. “Maid Marian,” as she was known by the freighters and soldiers, made five round-trip crossings of the trail before settling down to live her adult life along its deeply rutted traces. —From Foreword “When it was first published in 1954, Marian Russell’s Land of Enchantment was praised as an outstanding memoir of life on the Santa Fe Trail...Now readers everywhere can enjoy Mrs. Russell’s recollections,... And those readers will discover that Mrs. Russell described much more than just life on the Trail. Indeed her memoirs cover virtually every aspect of life in the West...—Southwest Review “These memoirs reveal a strong, energetic woman whose perceptions of old Santa Fe and pioneer life on the trail paint a vivid picture of the nineteenth-century West. The unusual and exact details which Marian Russell recalls make her story enthrallingly real.”—American West

Author : Marion Sloan Russell
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826308058

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Land of Enchantment by Marion Sloan Russell Pdf

Facsimile edition of one of the few accounts of life on the trail.

Author : Lucie Genay
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826360144

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Land of Nuclear Enchantment by Lucie Genay Pdf

In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico’s nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points of view of the local people. Genay focuses on personal experiences in order to give a sense of the upheaval that accompanied the rise of the nuclear era. She gives voice to the Hispanics and Native Americans of the Jémez Plateau, the blue-collar workers of Los Alamos, the miners and residents of the Grants Uranium Belt, and the ranchers and farmers who were affected by the federal appropriation of land in White Sands Missile Range and whose lives were upended by the Trinity test and the US government’s reluctance to address the “collateral damage” of the work at the Range. Genay reveals the far-reaching implications for the residents as New Mexico acquired a new identity from its embrace of nuclear science.

Author : William deBuys
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826353436

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Enchantment and Exploitation by William deBuys Pdf

First published in 1985, William deBuys’s Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity. Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time—and continues to travel. In a new final chapter deBuys examines ongoing transformations in the mountains’ natural systems—including, most notably, developments related to wildfires—with significant implications for both the land and the people who depend on it. As the climate absorbs the effects of an industrial society, deBuys argues, we can no longer expect the environmental future to be a reiteration of the environmental past.

Author : Richard Melzer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781423616337

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New Mexico by Richard Melzer Pdf

A pictorial celebration of New Mexico's history and landscape. In celebration of New Mexico's statehood centenial, Richard Melzer focuses on the various social and political elements that have made the Land of Enchantment what it is today. Filled with images that document the past hundred years, New Mexico is a photographic delight accompanied by brief insightful essays that leave the reader in no doubt of a history that is both imposing and exciting in its scope. This book is also an official product of the state's centennial celebration. Richard Anthony Melzer is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico Valencia Campus. He is a former president of the Historical Society of New Mexico and is the author of many books and articles on twentieth-century New Mexico history.

Author : Janis H. Jenkins,Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520343528

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Troubled in the Land of Enchantment by Janis H. Jenkins,Thomas J. Csordas Pdf

In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life.

Author : Jerry R. Davis
Publisher : Artemesia Publishing, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1932926208

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Barns from the Land of Enchantment by Jerry R. Davis Pdf

New Mexico is a land of diverse cultures and people. That variety is reflected in the many types of barns found throughout the state. Barns from the Land of Enchantment is a collection of fifty drawings and accompanying each is a vignette about the featured structure. All of the illustrations are full-page black and white drawings suitable for framing. The vignettes enliven the illustrations with interesting historical information about each barn. Many of them contain amusing anecdotes about the author's difficulties in his search for the subjects in the volume. Barns from the Land of Enchantment will fascinate anyone who has a rural background or an interest in art and architecture.

Author : Arthur Rackham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 102126024X

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The Land of Enchantment by Arthur Rackham Pdf

Author : Janet Dailey
Publisher : Open Road Media Romance
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497639425

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Land of Enchantment by Janet Dailey Pdf

Nothing seemed to be turning out right. "Stop trying to kid yourself-and me," Lije snapped. "You're homesick for city life. But I told you before we were married how much this ranch meant to me. I'm not going to give it up, even for you." Diana was hurt. She had loved Lije enough to give up her career; she had really tried hard to adapt to the ranch. And yet that apparently was not enough. Because Lije was not prepared to compromise, there were limits to his love. Janet Dailey, who passed away in 2013, was born Janet Haradon in 1944 in Storm Lake, Iowa. She attended secretarial school in Omaha, Nebraska, before meeting her husband, Bill. The two worked together in construction and land development until they "retired" to travel throughout the United States, inspiring Janet to write the Americana series of romances, setting a novel in every state of the Union. In 1974, Janet Dailey was the first American author to write for Harlequin. Her first novel was No Quarter Asked. She has gone on to write approximately ninety novels, twenty-one of which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. She won many awards and accolades for her work, appearing widely on radio and television. Today, there are over three hundred million Janet Dailey books in print in nineteen different languages, making her one of the most popular novelists in the world. For more information about Janet Dailey, visit www.janetdailey.com.

Author : Margaret Rogerson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481497589

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An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson Pdf

A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts--even as she falls in love with a faerie prince--in this gorgeous debut novel. 6 x 9.

Author : Liza Wieland
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815653134

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Land of Enchantment by Liza Wieland Pdf

New Mexico, 1985. Brigid Long Night, a young half-Navajo painter, goes to work as an assistant for the elderly Georgia O’Keeffe. Haunted by the decision to give up her newborn daughter for adoption, Brigid struggles with the direction and inertia of her life. With O’Keeffe’s encouragement, Brigid develops a powerful style, incorporating language and wordplay as well as image in her portrayal of Native American life and her place in it. Atlanta, 1995. Nancy Diamond, an aspiring playwright, encounters Brigid’s work and begins to understand the hidden truths about her own life as the child born of an affair between her white mother and an African American artist. New York City, 2001. Sasha Hernandez enrolls at Columbia University to study filmmaking. She has only recently discovered that her mother, living in Manhattan, is a celebrated painter and sculptor whose work is installed in the sculpture garden at the World Trade Center. In Liza Wieland’s deeply moving novel, these interwoven stories show how art reveals the depth and complexity of human love, in all its betrayals and losses, beauty and redemption.

Author : Clyde Casey
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780826354174

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New Mexico Cuisine by Clyde Casey Pdf

Originally published: Santa Fe, New Mexico: Clear Light Publishing, 2009.

Author : Lilian Whiting
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732654970

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The Land of Enchantment by Lilian Whiting Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Land of Enchantment by Lilian Whiting

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345484505

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Enchantment by Orson Scott Card Pdf

In Enchantment, Orson Scott Card works his magic as never before, transforming the timeless story of Sleeping Beauty into an original fantasy brimming with romance and adventure. The moment Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay still as death. But beneath the foliage a malevolent presence stirred and sent the ten-year-old Ivan scrambling for the safety of Cousin Marek's farm. Now, years later, Ivan is an American graduate student, engaged to be married. Yet he cannot forget that long-ago day in the forest—or convince himself it was merely a frightened boy’s fantasy. Compelled to return to his native land, Ivan finds the clearing just as he left it. This time he does not run. This time he awakens the beauty with a kiss . . . and steps into a world that vanished a thousand years ago. A rich tapestry of clashing worlds and cultures, Enchantment is a powerfully original novel of a love and destiny that transcend centuries . . . and the dark force that stalks them across the ages.