Lost Man S River

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1860464246

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Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307819659

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Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

When his novel Killing Mister Watson was published in 1990, the reviews were extraordinary. It was heralded as "a marvel of invention . . . a virtuoso performance" (The New York Times Book Review) and a "novel [that] stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now Peter Matthiessen brings us the second novel in his Watson trilogy, a project that has been nearly twenty years in the writing. A story of epic scope and ambition, Lost Man's River confronts the primal relationship between a dangerous father and his desperate sons and the ways in which his death has shaped their lives. Lucius Watson is obsessed with learning the truth about his father. Who was E. J. Watson? Was he a devoted family man, an inspired farmer, a man of progress and vision? Or was he a cold-blooded murderer and amoral opportunist? Were his neighbors driven to kill him out of fear? Or was it envy? And if Watson was a killer, should the neighbors fear the obsessed Lucius when he returns to live among them and ask questions? The characters in this tale are men and women molded by the harsh elements of the Florida Everglades--an isolated breed, descendants of renegades and pioneers, who have only their grit, instinct, and tradition to wield against the obliterating forces of twentieth-century progress: Speck Daniels, moonshiner and alligator poacher turned gunrunner; Sally Brown, who struggles to escape the racism and shame of her local family; R. B. Collins, known as Chicken, crippled by drink and rage, who is the custodian of Watson secrets; Watson Dyer, the unacknowledged namesake with designs on the remote Watson homestead hidden in the wild rivers; and Henry Short, a black man and unwilling member of the group of armed island men who awaited E. J. Watson in the silent twilight. Only a storyteller of Peter Matthiessen's dazzling artistry could capture the beauty and strangeness of life on this lawless frontier while probing deeply into its underlying tragedy: the brutal destruction of the land in the name of progress, and the racism that infects the heart of New World history.

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679735649

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Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

One of the few American writers ever nominated for the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction presents the second novel in his Watson trilogy. Lucius Watson is obsessed with learning the truth about his father. Who was E. J. Watson? Was he a devoted family man, an inspired farmer, a man of progress and vision? Or was he a cold-blooded murderer and amoral opportunist? Were his neighbors driven to kill him out of fear? Or was it envy? And if Watson was a killer, should the neighbors fear the obsessed Lucius when he returns to live among them and ask questions? The characters in this tale are men and women molded by the harsh elements of the Florida Everglades—an isolated breed, descendants of renegades and pioneers, who have only their grit, instinct, and tradition to wield against the obliterating forces of twentieth-century progress: Speck Daniels, moonshiner and alligator poacher turned gunrunner; Sally Brown, who struggles to escape the racism and shame of her local family; R. B. Collins, known as Chicken, crippled by drink and rage, who is the custodian of Watson secrets: Watson Dyer, the unacknowledged namesake with designs on the remote Watson homestead hidden in the wild rivers; and Henry Short, a black man and unwilling member of the group of armed island men who awaited E. J. Watson in the silent twilight. Only a storyteller of Peter Matthiessen’s dazzling artistry could capture the beauty and strangeness of life on this lawless frontier while probing deeply into its underlying tragedy: the brutal destruction of the land in the name of progress, and the racism that infects the heart of New World history. A story of epic scope and ambition, Lost Man’s River confronts the primal relationship between a dangerous father and his desperate sons and the ways in which his death has shaped their lives.

Author : Cynthia C. DeFelice,Cynthia DeFelice
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780380723966

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Lostman's River by Cynthia C. DeFelice,Cynthia DeFelice Pdf

In the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Tyler encounters vicious hunters whose actions threaten to destroy the Everglades ecosystem, and as a result joins the battle to protect that fragile environment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1470 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Geology
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030040962385

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Geological Survey Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Hunter House
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Chipewyan Indians
ISBN : 1552636240

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No Man's River by Farley Mowat Pdf

In No Man`s River, master storyteller Farley Mowat delivers a gripping account of adventure in the far north, shared with a Metis trapper as the two men travel over a thousand miles by canoe. In the spring of 1947, putting the death and devastation of the Second World War behind him, Farley Mowat joined a scientific expedition to the north, seeking a saner world. In the remote, northern reaches of Manitoba, he encountered the Idthen Eldeli—People of the Caribou—a Dene people still living according to age-old traditions. Travelling still farther north, Mowat met the Ihalmiut, an Inuit people whose lives also revolved around the caribou. His companion, Metis trapper Charles Schweder, provided Mowat with an entree into the ancient cultures of these native peoples, and he came to know their land and ways with an intimacy achieved by few outsiders. Mowat was based at Windy Post with the Schweder clan, which included two Inuit children. The young girl, Kunee, also known as Rita, is painted with special vividness—checking the traplines with the men, riding atop a sled, smoking a tiny pipe. Farley returns to the north two decades later and discovers the tragic fate that awaited her. A rare glimpse into a lost world, No Man’s River is both an adventure tale and a heart-rending story of our indifference to the suffering of native and mixed-race peoples, told by one of the best-loved writers in the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Birds
ISBN : CORNELL:31924090193743

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Checklist of Everglades National Park Birds by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588368249

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Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.”—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century—were originally conceived as one vast, mysterious novel. Now, in this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has marvelously distilled a monumental work while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. Praise for Shadow Country “Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson’s song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate.”—Los Angeles Times “Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy. It’s the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes.”—Don DeLillo “The fiction of Peter Ma­­tthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone’s highest expectations for great writing.” —Richard Ford “Shadow Country, Matthiessen’s distillation of the earlier Watson saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy.”—W. S. Merwin “[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel.”—The Miami Herald

Author : Florida Academy of Sciences
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027599443

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Quarterly Journal by Florida Academy of Sciences Pdf

Author : Colin Angus,Ian Mulgrew
Publisher : Crown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780767912815

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Lost in Mongolia by Colin Angus,Ian Mulgrew Pdf

From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it. Exploration is Colin Angus’ calling. It is not only the tug of excitement and challenge that keeps sending him on death-defying journeys down some of the world’s most powerful waterways, it is a desire to know a place more intimately than you could from the window of a train, to feel the soul of a place. Angus emphasizes that rivers have always been key to the development of complex societies and the rise of civilizations, offering as they do irrigation, transportation, hydroelectric power, and food. But, as Lost in Mongolia captures with breathtaking detail, while they giveth plenty, the great rivers also taketh away in an instant. In Lost in Mongolia, Colin Angus takes readers through never-before-seen territory and his wonderful sense of adventure and humour come through on every page.

Author : U S Coast Guard
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0160897513

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Light List, 2012, V. 3, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Little River, South Carolina to Econfina River, Florida (Includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) by U S Coast Guard Pdf

Contains lists of lights and other aids to navigation that are maintained by or under the authority of the U.S. Coast Guard and located in the waters surrounding the United States and its Territories This publication and the data contained within it are maintained and published by the USCG.

Author : Scott S. Warren
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0898867843

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Exploring Colorado's Wild Areas by Scott S. Warren Pdf

Discover 69 wilderness areas--including seven new ones--showcasing everything from mountains to canyons, rushing rivers to desert landscapesA comprehensive guide to Colorado's wild areas Totally updated and revised Includes 74 maps and 90 photosMuch has changed in the landscape of Colorado's wilderness designations since the first edition of this book appeared in 1992. At the newly designated Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, visitors peer into the depths of this narrow canyon that drops 2,000 feet to the Gunnison River below--and some choose to follow rugged backcountry routes down to the inner canyon. A trail in Spanish Peaks Wilderness, established in 2000, leads up one of these twin sentinels that rise above the edge of the high plains. Nestled at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and standing up to 750 feet high, the dunes of the newly enlarged Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve are the tallest in the Western Hemisphere. Other recent additions to Colorado's protected lands include the Castle Peak Wilderness Study Area, Bull Gulch Wilderness Study Area, San Luis Hills Wilderness Study Area, and Demaree Canyon Wilderness Area. Colorado is one of the nation's primary adventure-travel destinations, and both visitors and locals will find this book the most all-inclusive reference available to the state's wildness areas. From the state's high peaks to its spectacular canyons and deserts, Exploring Colorado's Wild Areas provides detailed information on seasons, flora and fauna, geology, history and activities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030821607

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Gunnison National Forest (N.F.)/White River National Forest (N.F.), East River-Upper Crystal River Land Use Plan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Floods
ISBN : UCAL:B3430425

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Geological Survey Water-supply Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030163620

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Everglades National Park (N.P.), Proposed Wilderness Recommendation by Anonim Pdf