Loving Mountains Loving Men

Author : Jeff Mann
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780821426043

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A Gay man chronicles his relationship to his native Appalachian culture and society. Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many LGBTQ+ people from the mountains flee to urban areas in search of community and broader acceptance. Jeff Mann tells his story as one who left and then returned, who insists on claiming and celebrating both regional and sexual identities. In memoir and poetry, Mann describes his life as an openly gay man who has remained true to his mountain roots. Mann recounts his upbringing in Hinton, a small town in southern West Virginia, as well as his realization of his homosexuality, his early encounters with homophobia, his coterie of supportive lesbian friends, and his initial attempts to escape his native region in hopes of finding a freer life in urban gay communities. Mann depicts his difficult search for a romantic relationship, the family members who have given him the strength to defy convention, his anger against religious intolerance and the violence of homophobia, and his love for the rich folk culture of the Highland South. His character and values shaped by the mountains, Mann has reconciled his sexuality with both traditional definitions of Appalachian manhood and his own attachment to home and kin. Loving Mountains, Loving Men is a compelling, universal story of making peace with oneself and the wider world.

Author : Jeff Mann
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : 9780821416495

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Weaving personal narrative with poetry, Mann describes his life as an openly gay man in Appalachia, a place of great physical beauty and of religious intolerance and homophobia. He reconciles his homosexuality with both traditional definitions of Appalachian manhood and his own attachment to home and kin. Mann is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Larry W. Price
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520058860

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Mountains & Man by Larry W. Price Pdf

"This book explores the complex processes and features of mountain environments: glaciers, snow and avalanches, landforms, weather and climate, vegetation, soils, and wildlife. A major section analyzes the effects of latitudinal position on these processes and features. There is also an investigation of the origin of mountains, our attitudes towards them, and their manifold implications for us."--Inside front jacket.

Author : Olivia T Turner
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798404590715

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Mountain Man Fixated by Olivia T Turner Pdf

I'm a city girl. I don't do nature. It sucks. Bugs, bears, poison ivy. You name it, I hate it. So, when my niece asks me to accompany her on a camping trip, I'm horrified. But I'm a good aunt, so I say yes. Well, that was a huge mistake. One of many. Forgetting the bug spray. That was a mistake. So was thinking I could control a canoe. Spoiler alert: I can't. When I get irrevocably lost from the group in the mountain wilderness, I think I've made a fatal mistake. Until Cyrus finds me. He's big, strong, and the toughest man these mountains have ever seen. But he goes absolutely weak when he sees me. An obsession takes over and he's not about to let me go. Is there anything in the survival guide for when a burly mountain man becomes obsessed with you? Spoiler alert: Nope. There's not. Mia is about to find out if bearded men do it better. I think we already know the answer to that question, but come along for the ride anyway and watch this obsessive alpha male move mountains for his girl. Insta-love at its finest in a SAFE read with no cheating and a super sweet HEA guaranteed. Double V-cards. Enjoy!

Author : Sid Marty
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780771056727

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Men for the Mountains by Sid Marty Pdf

As a park warden in the national parks of Canada's Rocky Mountains, Sid Marty came to know that beautiful and treacherous landscape as few men or women do. He was a mountain climber, rescue team member, firefighter, wildlife custodian, and adviser to tourists, adventurers, and people passing through. At all times, he was an acute observer of human and animal behaviour. In these pages he records with wry wit and bitter insight true stories of heroism and folly drawn from life in the high country. Marty writes vividly about a land and a way of life that are increasingly endangered. The visceral energy of his prose compels attention. This is a compulsive, alarming, and often hilarious read.

Author : Misty M. Beller
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493421718

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Love's Mountain Quest (Hearts of Montana Book #2) by Misty M. Beller Pdf

Young widow Joanna Watson is struggling to make a new home for her five-year-old son, Samuel, in the little mountain town of Settler's Fort. When she returns home from work to find Samuel and the woman watching him missing, with no lawman in town, she enlists a man she prays has enough experience in this rugged country to help. Isaac Bowen wants nothing more than a quiet, invisible life in these mountains, far away from the bad decisions of his past. But he has a strong suspicion of who's behind the kidnapping, and if he's right, he knows all too well the evil they're chasing. As they press on against the elements, Joanna fights to hold on to hope, while Isaac knows a reckoning is coming. They find encouragement in the tentative trust that grows between them, but whether it can withstand the danger and coming confrontation is far from certain in this wild, unpredictable land.

Author : Meredith Sue Willis
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821443316

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Out of the Mountains by Meredith Sue Willis Pdf

Meredith Sue Willis’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities. Willis’s stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families over current issues such as mountaintop removal and homophobia. Always, however, the situations depicted in these stories are explored in the service of a deeper understanding of the people involved, and of the place. This is not the mythic version of Appalachia, but the Appalachia of the twenty-first century.

Author : Baoan Liu
Publisher : Baoan Liu
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Baoan martial arts novels:Love Sword, Rivers and Mountains by Baoan Liu Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213188134

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Appalachian Journal by Anonim Pdf

A regional studies review.

Author : Shohaku Okumura
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614293125

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The Mountains and Waters Sutra by Shohaku Okumura Pdf

An indispensable map of a classic Zen text. “Mountains and waters are the expression of old buddhas.” So begins “Sansuikyo,” or “Mountains and Waters Sutra,” a masterpiece of poetry and insight from Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century founder of the Soto school of Zen. Shohaku Okumura—renowned for his translations of and magisterial teachings on Dogen—guides the reader through the rich layers of metaphor and meaning in “Sansuikyo,” which is often thought to be the most beautiful essay in Dogen’s monumental Shobogenzo. His wise and friendly voice shows us the questions Dogen poses and helps us realize what the answers could be. What does it mean for mountains to walk? How are mountains an expression of Buddha’s truth, and how can we learn to hear the deep teachings of river waters? Throughout this luminous volume, we learn how we can live in harmony with nature in respect and gratitude—and awaken to our true nature.

Author : William J. Mann
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758237286

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Men Who Love Men by William J. Mann Pdf

For Jeff O'Brien, life has finally fallen into place. He's now a bestselling author, living in Provincetown full-time with Lloyd Griffith, his longtime lover and soon-to-be legal husband. Forty has nothing on Jeff and Lloyd--they're the still-sexy poster boys for settled, contented domesticity. Meanwhile their best friend Henry Weiner, escort-turned-erotic energy worker, wonders if he'll ever find what Jeff and Lloyd have with each other. Thirtysomething, no longer the muscle boy of his twenties, Henry's searching for that one special someone--though he's just about ready to give up when a meeting at Tea Dance changes everything. Enter Luke West. Dangerously young, boyishly handsome, with a seductive charm and a rich fantasy life, Luke tells everyone he's come to P-Town to find himself both personally and as a writer. But his real agenda may possibly be very different--and far less innocent. Once he's worked his way into Jeff, Lloyd, and Henry's lives, Luke find his presence arousing intense feelings in all three men. Now Jeff, Lloyd, and Henry will face their futures alone and together, closing the door on some chapters of their lives while opening others to new love and hope. With Men Who Love Men, William J. Mann tackles the big questions of contemporary gay life, delivering a beautiful, thoughtful book about love, sex, commitment, friendship, and fantasy, about the lives we engineer and the joyful surprises that happen when we least expect them. "Powerful. . .Mann's most mature and ambitious fiction to date. . .a strong, sexy novel that will stand out." --The Lambda Book Report

Author : Jesse Stuart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1979-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813101433

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Men of the Mountains by Jesse Stuart Pdf

Twenty-one short stories explore the daily lives and activities of Kentucky mountaineers

Author : Rebecca R. Scott
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816665990

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Removing Mountains by Rebecca R. Scott Pdf

An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.

Author : William Douglas
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447482499

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Of Men and Mountains by William Douglas Pdf

William O. Douglas was one of that rare mix of man that helped define America, a judge of the supreme court and also a lifelong outdoorsman. This is his story in his words and conveys the joy he felt for the wild untouched vastness of the great forests and the high snow capped peaks which he pitted himself against. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : David Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555009588

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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas. Vol. 1-50; 51, no. 3- ol. 63 by David Thomas Pdf