River Of Memories

Author : Michael Jacobs
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847085900

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The Robber of Memories by Michael Jacobs Pdf

Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, the Magdalena. Considered by some to be the most dangerous place in the world, travellers along the river - for centuries the only route into the vast South American interior - were at the mercy of tropical disease, dangerous animals and precarious barges. A third of the victims of 'la violencia', Colombia's period of civil conflict which began in the 1950s, ended up in its waters. Townships alongside it have experienced some of the worst massacres in South American history. In 2011, Michael Jacobs travelled its whole length to the river's source high up in Andean moorlands controlled by guerrillas. In spellbinding prose, he charts the dangers he negotiated - including a terrifying three day encounter with the FARC - while uncovering the river's history of pioneering explorations, environmental decline and political violence. As Jacobs delves into the history of destruction and decay along the river, he also makes a deeply personal exploration into memory and its loss: not far from the river's banks lies a group of townships with the highest incidence of early onset Alzheimer's in the world. Jacobs reflects on the lives of his father, and his mother - sufferers respectively from Alzheimer's and dementia - as he travels upstream towards what comes to seem like a heartland of mystery, magic and darkness.

Author : Jack Burris
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1797647814

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A River of Memories from the Mountains and the 50's by Jack Burris Pdf

I have this canoe that is tied to my imagination and docked to my memory bank. This book is simply a ride down the rivers of my memories. I grew up in the mountains of western NC under the shadow of Mount Pisgah. The mountain way of life during the 40's and 50's is worth writing about and preserving for future references. It is my story, seen and experienced through the eyes of a young boy. And for me the canoe rides are real, for the places and folk it takes me to are real. The river of my memories is deep and wide, for there are 70 plus years of storage. The traditions, the way of life in the 40's and 50's, Mountaineer spirit and humor are worth talking and writing about. There is nothing really spectacular about what I have to say, but I do hope the stories of growing up in a time that has almost slipped away help you take your own ride down your river of memories. The good times have left me upbeat and positive and extremely happy to have lived in those years. The tragedies have left me raw and exposed and extremely emotional. I truly hope these stories bring some smiles and joy to you. And I really hope you just relax, hop in my old canoe and take a river ride with me. Part of life that comes too sudden is the 'last time'. The last time you see a friend. The last time you talk to your folks. The last time you hugged a family member. One part of writing these stories is remembering the last time I had with some of my people. That is why tears have been shed while trying to write this memoir. I wish I had asked more questions. I wish I had had hugged a bit harder, and loved a lot sweeter. So as for me, I have tried to show in words just how much those folk, growing up in that time, and my Faith have meant to me. Be a blessing because you are blessed.

Author : Jean Taylor Murphy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781449027322

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River of Memories by Jean Taylor Murphy Pdf

Retiree, Katie Donahue, returns to a small New Brunswick village nestled along the Miramichi River for the last time. Sitting by the river, memories come flooding back of the vacations spent as a young girl with her relatives, the McIvers. Set in the 1940s and 1950s, it is a tale of deprivation, disappointments loss, and death that drive the McIvers to the brink of desolation. From life-threatening work on river drives to the loss of their home, the McIvers meet the challenges of life with love, humor, and faith. This heart-wrenching yet heart-warming novel poignantly illustrates the hardships endured by a courageous family and their gritty determination to overcome the insurmountable obstacles facing them

Author : William D. Layman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124057212

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River of Memory by William D. Layman Pdf

"River of Memory honors a place and time now gone from view. It restores an unfettered Columbia through more than ninety historical photographs that capture the river as it once appeared. This visual record is complemented with the words of early explorers, surveyors, and naturalists who wrote about specific places along the river and with new works by contemporary American and Canadian writers and poets."--Jacket.

Author : Sandra Gail Lambert
Publisher : Twisted Road Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Florida
ISBN : 1940189004

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The River's Memory by Sandra Gail Lambert Pdf

"A woman born without legs spends her days swimming with manatees. Two artists, separated by centuries, guide each other's hands. And a child of the Florida frontier sits on the graves of her siblings to think about race relations and the habits of caterpillars. These are some of the women who live along the banks of a river where water billows from caverns of silent lakes. None of them are famous. None have children. Instead, their stories exist in a mosaic of time and shadowed history, and the things of the river -- clay and water, trees and bone -- carry their memories forward."--Cover page 4.

Author : Katherine Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Ottawa (Ont.)
ISBN : 0987804006

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River, Road & Rail by Katherine Day Pdf

"RRR traces the history of Woodroffe from the First Nations through the arrival of the Honeywell family, the building of the Richmond Road and the railway, the evolution from lumbering to farming and light industry, the arrival of the streetcar, the creation of a summer resort among the hayfields and the eventual transformation into a suburb of Ottawa."--Dust jacket.

Author : Pam Schweitzer,Charles Wegner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Thames River (England)
ISBN : 0947860096

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On the River by Pam Schweitzer,Charles Wegner Pdf

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735237834

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Medicine River by Thomas King Pdf

When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother’s funeral. He doesn’t count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to open shop as the town’s only Native photographer. Somehow, that’s exactly what happens. Through Will’s gentle and humorous narrative, we come to know Medicine River, a small Albertan town bordering a Blackfoot reserve. And we meet its people: the basketball team; Louise Heavyman and her daughter, South Wing; Martha Oldcrow, the marriage doctor; Joe Bigbear, Harlen’s world-travelling, storytelling brother; Bertha Morley, who has a short fling with a Calgary dating service; and David Plume, who went to Wounded Knee. At the centre of it all is Harlen, advising and pestering, annoying and entertaining, gossiping and benevolently interfering in the lives of his friends and neighbours.

Author : Carol Smith
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647000967

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Crossing the River by Carol Smith Pdf

A powerful exploration of grief and resilience following the death of the author's son that combines memoir, reportage, and lessons in how to heal Everyone deals with grief in their own way. Helen Macdonald found solace in training a wild gos­hawk. Cheryl Strayed found strength in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. For Carol Smith, a Pulitzer Prize­ nominated journalist struggling with the sudden death of her seven-year-old son, Christopher, the way to cross the river of sorrow was through work. In Crossing the River, Smith recounts how she faced down her crippling loss through reporting a series of profiles of people coping with their own intense chal­lenges, whether a life-altering accident, injury, or diag­nosis. These were stories of survival and transformation, of people facing devastating situations that changed them in unexpected ways. Smith deftly mixes the stories of these individuals and their families with her own account of how they helped her heal. General John Shalikashvili, once the most powerful member of the American military, taught Carol how to face fear with discipline and endurance. Seth, a young boy with a rare and incurable illness, shed light on the totality of her son's experiences, and in turn helps readers see that the value of a life is not measured in days. Crossing the River is a beautiful and profoundly moving book, an unforgettable journey through grief toward hope, and a valuable, illuminating read for anyone coping with loss.

Author : Felicia Carmelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 1897470541

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Across the Rivers of Memory by Felicia Carmelly Pdf

Transnistria, Romania, did not exist on a map. Yet that is where ten-year-old Felicia Steigman and her parents arrive in 1941, after a cruel deportation and death march overseen by Romanian Nazi collaborators. On finally returning to their pre-war idyllic hometown, Vatra Dornei, after surviving three years amid squalor, devastation and death, they find their suffering being silenced. Decades later, Felicia is determined to commemorate the forgotten cemetery of Transnistria in a way that cannot be ignored.

Author : Candice Millard
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307575081

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The River of Doubt by Candice Millard Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait—the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. “A rich, dramatic tale that ranges from the personal to the literally earth-shaking.” —The New York Times The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut. Look for Candice Millard’s latest book, River of the Gods.

Author : Jeff Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780544391192

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Black River Falls by Jeff Hirsch Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories. He chooses to remain in the quarantined zone, caring for a group of orphaned kids in a mountain camp with the help of the former brutal school bully, now transformed by the virus into his best friend. But then a strong-willed and mysterious young woman appears, and the closed-off world Cardinal has created begins to crumble. A thrilling, fast-paced work of speculative fiction for teens, from a bestselling author, Black River Falls is an unforgettable story about survival, identity, and family.

Author : Vikas Khanna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1891105531

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Return to the Rivers by Vikas Khanna Pdf

Return to the Rivers is an incredible collection of recipes, photos, and memories as a means to preserve and share the sacred foodways, values, and simple gifts of friendship that the Himalayan people bestowed Khanna. Exploring the regions the great Himalayas directly touch upon - Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Northern India, Myanmar, Western China, Pakistan - Khanna was met with immeasurable kindness and hospitality. The dishes are beautifully simple and appealing, such as Eggplant Fritters with Ginger, Spinach and Cheese Momos, Chile-Scallion Buckwheat Noodles, Nepalese Black Lentils and Rice, Burmese Fish Noodle Soup, Pressed Rice with Yogurt and Almonds, and Tibetan Scallion Pancakes.Nominated for both a James Beard Award and the IACP Cookbook Award.

Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544340688

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The Giver by Lois Lowry Pdf

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

Author : Madeleine Scherer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110675153

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Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature by Madeleine Scherer Pdf

Classical Memories is an intervention into the field of adaptation studies, taking the example of classical reception to show that adaptation is a process that can be driven by and produce intertextual memories. I see ‘classical memories’ as a memory-driven type of adaptation that draws on and reproduces schematic and otherwise de-contextualised conceptions of antiquity and its cultural ‘exports’ in, broadly speaking, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These memory-driven adaptations differ, often in significant ways, from more traditional adaptations that seek to either continue or deconstruct a long-running tradition that can be traced back to antiquity as well as its canonical points of reception in later ages. When investigating such a popular and widespread set of narratives, characters, and images like those that remain of Graeco-Roman antiquity, terms like ‘adaptation’ and ‘reception’ could and should be nuanced further to allow us to understand the complex interactions between modern works and classical antiquity in more detail, particularly when it pertains to postcolonial or post-digital classical reception. In Classical Memories, I propose that understanding certain types of adaptations as intertextual memories allows us to do just that.