Riding The River Home

Author : 范成大,James Morris Hargett
Publisher : Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015076124299

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Riding the River Home by 范成大,James Morris Hargett Pdf

This book presents a complete and annotated English translation of the text Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu), a travel journal written by the famous Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) government official and writer Fan Chengda (1126-1193). The journal describes a boat journey the author made in the summer and fall of 1177 from Chengdu (Sichuan) to his home near Suzhou (Jiangsu). Fan's trip covered a distance of approximately 1,700 English miles and took 122 days to complete. The Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu is especially valuable because it provides detailed, first-hand descriptions of many aspects of the Song dynasty (960-1279) geography, history, literature, art, and religion. Perhaps most noteworthy are the author's lengthy and often fascinating accounts and assessments of scenic and historic sites he stopped to visit during the trip. --

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553899634

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Ride the River by Louis L'Amour Pdf

Alone in the big city, a fierce young frontierswoman must outsmart a dangerous con man before she can stake her claim to the family fortune. Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home—until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia to collect her inheritance. In the wilderness Echo can take care of herself as well as any man, but she never imagined the challenge that awaits: a crooked city lawyer who intends to take advantage of her by any means necessary. Echo will need all of her wits to best this scoundrel and make it back home in one piece.

Author : Patrick D. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683342854

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The River Is Home by Patrick D. Smith Pdf

Poor in material possessions, Skeeter's kinfolk are rich in their appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river on which they live—with its food supply, steamboats, and floods—figures strongly in their lives as the source of life, change, and death. Though their life is a simple one, it's filled with friendship, loyalty, love, and compassion

Author : Patricia McLinn
Publisher : Craig Place Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944126193

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Ride the River: Rodeo Knights, A Western Romance Novel by Patricia McLinn Pdf

Author : Blair Paterson
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922792280

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The River Ride by Blair Paterson Pdf

Back in the 1980s, teenagers Blair, Steven, Scottie, and Pete embark on two calamitous bicycle rides to the Hawkesbury River. In 2011, in an ambitious attempt to recreate the past, the now middle-aged men set out on a third river ride. Drawing upon old photos, mythological creatures and local and historical personalities, the author Blair Paterson reflects on a lifetime of river experiences and the value of good friends, and the profound beauty of the Hawkesbury River shines through as a love song from going to whoa.

Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442445475

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Downriver by Will Hobbs Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553276831

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Ride the River: The Sacketts by Louis L'Amour Pdf

Alone in the big city, a fierce young frontierswoman must outsmart a dangerous con man before she can stake her claim to the family fortune. Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home—until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia to collect her inheritance. In the wilderness Echo can take care of herself as well as any man, but she never imagined the challenge that awaits: a crooked city lawyer who intends to take advantage of her by any means necessary. Echo will need all of her wits to best this scoundrel and make it back home in one piece.

Author : Linda Rui Feng
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982129453

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Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls “one of the most beautiful debuts I’ve read in years.” How many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves? In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie’s growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family’s shared future. What Junie doesn’t know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country, each holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during China’s Cultural Revolution. While Momo grapples anew with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams for Junie’s future in America, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie’s birthday—even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. “A beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration, and most of all, love,” (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) Swimming Back to Trout River weaves together the stories of Junie, Momo, Cassia, and Dawn—a talented violinist from Momo’s past—while depicting their heartbreak and resilience, tenderly revealing the hope, compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants.

Author : Linda Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108356299

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Middle Imperial China, 900–1350 by Linda Walton Pdf

In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the state, the dynamics of empire, the transmission of knowledge, the formation of political elites, gender, and the family. Consistent coverage of peoples beyond the borders – Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol, among others – provides a broader East Asian context and introduces a more nuanced, integrated representation of China's past.

Author : S Pavithra Ram
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649839879

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A Ride with the River Man by S Pavithra Ram Pdf

A fiction based on two South Indian Brahmin families, documenting their journey as they bridge a generation of the past, the values and culture around it, with that of the contemporary. A peek into their everyday lives, the conversations, their minds and menus, their traits and traditions. What are the promises and compromises along the way? It is the story of the young protagonist who breezily anchors the generational shift, with an egoless mind, a selfless approach, as he conspires and inspires their way into the future, drawing into his path as many lives, as many dreams as his compassionate heart could embrace, with an undying urge to make all their lives brighter and their smiles bigger. Where does his strength lie? What does his future hold? How does his journey feel like? A beautiful love story couched in the heart of this journey, caught between many a battle of emotions, fought fair and square! The book takes you through a piercing journey into their minds, traversing layers and layers of their concerns, follies, dreams and desires. What remains at the end—is it the beginning or the end? Read on to explore!

Author : Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Accidents
ISBN : 9780440466338

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On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer Pdf

Joel dares his best friend, Tony, to a swimming race in a dangerous river. Both boys jump in, but when Joel reaches the sandbar, he finds Tony has vanished. How can he face their parents and the terrible truth?

Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525521877

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The River by Peter Heller Pdf

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fiery tour de force... I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." -Alison Borden, The Denver Post From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival.

Author : Samuel Bowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Mormons
ISBN : PSU:000019134154

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Our New West by Samuel Bowles Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615265731

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Return to the River by Anonim Pdf

Autobiography of a woman who loves horses, trail riding and adventure. This book describes her experiences in the cross-country "Great American Horse Race" to celebrate the U.S. Centennial in 1976.

Author : Niki Rainwater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1736775707

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Rosie Rides The River by Niki Rainwater Pdf

A tiny wild rose bud gently opens her petals to the roaring river that rushes beneath her vines. She soon befriends a little bird and finds herself fully bloomed, longing for adventure and a glimpse into what (or who) may be found downriver!