The Reindeer Hunters

Author : Joan Wolf
Publisher : Untreed Reads
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611874914

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For generations, as dawn touched the River of Gold and light hit the fertile valleys of southern France, the young men of the Kindred and the Norakamo tribes raided each other’s horse herds. But when a full-blown war threatened both tribes’ very existence, a taboo-breaking alliance was forged to survive this common enemy. To seal it, Alane, the Norakamo chief’s daughter, was promised in marriage to Nardo, the Kindred chief’s son. Though they worship the same god, their ways are very different—especially for the proud and beautiful Alane, who fights against her forced union with Nardo. But she soon discovers that she can no longer resist the yearnings of her heart for this extraordinary man. And now Alane and Nardo must struggle to rally their people to defend their lands as they, too, must confront their own intense conflicts, ambitions and desires. For if their marriage cannot last, neither will their tribes…

Author : Lars Mytting
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647005849

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The Reindeer Hunters by Lars Mytting Pdf

The second novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy, an epic, moving, and gloriously told historical novel following The Bell in the Lake, an Indie Next pick The second novel in Lars Mytting’s powerful and compelling Sister Bells trilogy, The Reindeer Hunters is both a sequel to The Bell in the Lake and a stand-alone novel. Set again in fictional Butangen, Norway, where the story of the conjoined twin sisters Halfrid and Gunhild Hekne provides the mythical and mystical undergirding, The Reindeer Hunters unfolds around the extraordinary tapestry that portrays the sisters’ vision of Doomsday. After their death in 1613, the tapestry was given to the village church and lost at some point over the centuries. The year is 1903. Twenty-two years after the events of The Bell in The Lake, Astrid Hekne’s son, Jehans, is now a young man. Driven out by his family, he lives on a homestead in the mountains near the village of Butangen, where he relishes the freedom of his life apart, fishing and hunting for his livelihood. One August morning, Jehans kills a massive reindeer and at the same moment encounters an enigmatic hunter . . . At the new church in Butangen, Pastor Kai Schweigaard is living with the consequences of his past betrayal––arranging the dismantling and sale of the stave church––including deaths and the loss of the church’s mystical sister bells. Kai becomes obsessed with finding the ancient tapestry woven by the conjoined sisters in whose memory the bells were cast, with the hope that the tapestry will bring him redemption. Despite the unraveling legends from the past that continue to haunt these people, they must figure out how to look to the future. A magnificent story about love, sorrow, and courage, as well as taming waterfalls and the first flash of electric light in the village night, The Reindeer Hunters is a grand and thrilling novel about what it takes to live in and embrace a new era.

Author : Lars Mytting
Publisher : Sister Bells Trilogy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Norway
ISBN : 152941606X

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The Hekne Tapestry by Lars Mytting Pdf

"Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match" JO NESBO The Reindeer Hunters is the second in a thrilling historical trilogy that began with The Bell in the Lake. The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest smallholding up in the hills near Butangen, having withdrawn from his community. He is drawn to freedom, to fishing and reindeer hunting, and one day meets a stranger over the body of a huge reindeer buck. "Mytting weaves a compelling saga of love, both lost and found, and of a country in the midst of change" Sunday Times Outside the new church in Butangen, Pastor Kai Schweigaard still cares for Astrid Hekne's grave. The village's overworked priest is tormented by his old betrayal, which led to death and to the separation of two powerful church bells cast in memory of two sisters in Astrid's family. Kai is set on finding an ancient tapestry made by the sisters - the Hekne Weave - in the hope that it will reveal how he can remedy his iniquities. "A craftily woven tale steeped in rich local dyes" Financial Times Conceived on an epic scale by Norway's bestselling author, The Reindeer Hunters is a novel about love and bitter rivalries, sorrow and courage, about history and myth, and a country as it enters a new era, about the first electric light and the Great War in Europe, where brother stands against brother. Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin

Author : Lars Mytting
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683358190

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The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting Pdf

The engrossing epic novel—a #1 bestseller in Norway—of a young woman whose fate plays out against her village’s mystical church bells—now in paperback As long as people could remember, the stave church’s bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the community to cull favor for his plan for the old stave church, with its pagan deity effigies and supernatural bells. When the pastor makes a deal that brings an outsider, a sophisticated German architect, into their world, the village and Astrid are caught between past and future, as dark forces come into play. Lars Mytting, bestselling author of Norwegian Wood, brings his deep knowledge of history, carpentry, fishing, and stave churches to this compelling historical novel, an international bestseller sold in 12 countries. With its broad-canvas narrative about the intersection of religion, superstition, and duty, The Bell in the Lake is an irresistible story of ancient times and modern challenges, by a powerful international voice.

Author : Joan Wolf
Publisher : Untreed Reads
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781949135589

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Daughter of the Red Deer by Joan Wolf Pdf

Filled with the lyrical beauty of a now-vanished world, this magnificent novel unfolds during the last great ice age, amid the mist-shrouded mountains of the Pyrenees in prehistoric France. When tainted spring water fatally poisons the women of the tribe of the Horse, the clan’s young men set forth to kidnap new women from the matriarchal tribe of the Red Deer—a quest that must succeed or their people will die out. Golden-haired Mar, the leader of the young men, falls in love with the beautiful Alin, daughter of the Red Deer priestess. And though they are born to embrace different traditions, raised to worship different gods, Mar will fight to claim this strangely powerful woman as his own. Against a lush backdrop of ancient magic, mammoth hunts, and secret rites, this mesmerizing novel brings to life the ritual and adventure of a primeval world and tells a timeless tale of conflict between two societies…two beliefs…two sexes…and two people.

Author : Selcen Küçüküstel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800730632

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Embracing Landscape by Selcen Küçüküstel Pdf

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals. It focuses on the role of the spirited landscape which embraces all living creatures and acts as a unifying concept at the center of the human and non-human relations.

Author : Lawrence J. Jackson,Paul T. Thacker
Publisher : Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain : Avebury
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015047516714

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Caribou and Reindeer Hunters of the Northern Hemisphere by Lawrence J. Jackson,Paul T. Thacker Pdf

Contains 12 articles which provide a variety of perspectives on (Rangifer) (caribou/reindeer) and its use by prehistoric peoples in the northern latitudes of both the Old and New Worlds. Papers cover such topics as the inherent biases in the "man the hunter-woman the collector" view of Upper Paleolithic and Paleo-Indian cultures; the behavior patterns of and humans in the New World; the Paleo-Indian record of the earliest Gainey phase in Ontario and Michigan; and a variety of Upper Paleolithic situations in Europe. Lacks an index.

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521358876

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Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers by Tim Ingold Pdf

Throughout the northern circumpolar tundras and forests, and over many millennia, human populations have based their livelihood wholly or in part upon the exploitation of a single animal species-the reindeer. Yet some are hunters, others pastoralists, while today traditional pastoral economies are being replaced by a commercially oriented ranch industry. In this book, drawing on ethnographic material from North America and Eurasia, Tim Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations between hunting, pastoralism and ranching, each based on the same animal in the same environment, and each viewed in terms of a particular conjunction of social and ecological relations of production. In developing a workable synthesis between ecological and economic approaches in anthropology, Ingold introduces theoretically rigorous concepts for the analysis of specialized animal-based economies, which cast the problem of 'domestication' in an entirely new light.

Author : Joan Wolf
Publisher : Untreed Reads
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781949135855

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The Horsemasters by Joan Wolf Pdf

In the lush green valleys of southern France, long before the mists of time, as humankind takes its first defiant steps to tame the earth, one special tribe among the Kindred is ruled by the Priestess Arika. But a feared change is coming, for the distant thunder of hooves brings terrifying whispers of a fierce race of conquerors whose astonishing horsemanship gives them the power of conquest…a power that threatens to enslave Kindred women, murder their men, burn their villages. It is left to the exiled Ronan, Arika’s handsome young son, to meet this challenge. But first he must reunite with his true love, Nel, whose charisma and magical talents with animals may help him master the wild horse. And as the young lovers and their band of loyal renegades race to stem the invaders’ relentless advance, the grasslands quake with the sound of battle to determine the Kindreds’ destiny. Against the lush backdrop of a vanished primeval world, this spellbinding novel tells the timeless tale of adventure and conflict, rivalry and revenge, love and passion.

Author : K. J. Maitland
Publisher : Review
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472275479

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Traitor in the Ice by K. J. Maitland Pdf

'Full of tension and danger... powerfully atmospheric' JENNIFER SAINT 'A beautifully crafted thriller... Breathtaking and bone-chilling' MANDA SCOTT 'Maitland is a superlative historical novelist' REBECCA MASCULL --- Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens the shadows in this captivating historical novel for readers of C.J. Sansom, Andrew Taylor's Ashes of London and Kate Mosse. Winter, 1607. A man is struck down in the grounds of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Before dawn breaks, he is dead. Home to the Montagues, Battle has caught the paranoid eye of King James. The Catholic household is rumoured to shelter those loyal to the Pope, disguising them as servants within the abbey walls. And the last man sent to expose them was silenced before his report could reach London. Daniel Pursglove is summoned to infiltrate Battle and find proof of treachery. He soon discovers that nearly everyone at the abbey has something to hide - for deeds far more dangerous than religious dissent. But one lone figure he senses only in the shadows, carefully concealed from the world. Could the notorious traitor Spero Pettingar finally be close at hand? As more bodies are unearthed, Daniel determines to catch the culprit. But how do you unmask a killer when nobody is who they seem? DANIEL PURSGLOVE BOOK TWO --- Praise for THE DROWNED CITY 'Dark and enthralling' ANDREW TAYLOR 'This gripping thriller shows what a wonderful storyteller Maitland is' THE TIMES 'Colourful and compelling' SUNDAY TIMES 'Goes right to the heart of the Jacobean court' TRACY BORMAN 'Devilishly good' DAILY MAIL 'Spies, thieves, murderers and King James I? Brilliant' CONN IGGULDEN 'There are few authors who can bring the past to life so compellingly... Brilliant writing and more importantly, riveting reading' SIMON SCARROW 'The intrigues of Jacobean court politics simmer beneath the surface in this gripping and masterful crime novel' KATHERINE CLEMENTS 'Beautifully written with a dark heart, Maitland knows how to pull you deep into the early Jacobean period' RHIANNON WARD

Author : Randy Frahm
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 142960817X

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Deer Hunting by Randy Frahm Pdf

In winter, frozen lakes become a paradise for fishing enthusiasts. Discover how these hardy ice fishers bundle up, make a hole in the ice, and drop in a line.

Author : John Phillips
Publisher : Larsen's Outdoor Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0936513144

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The Masters' Secrets of Deer Hunting by John Phillips Pdf

Author : Rane Willerslev
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520252172

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Soul Hunters by Rane Willerslev Pdf

Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir hunters, Rane Willerslev focuses on the practical implications of living in a 'hall of mirrors' world, one inhabited by humans, animals and spirits, all of whom are understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another.

Author : Michael Waguespack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Deer hunting
ISBN : 0975462466

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The Deer Hunting Book by Michael Waguespack Pdf

The Deer Hunting Book is a wonderful collection of deer hunting short stories for boys and girls interested in the outdoors. The book captures the excitement of hunting whitetails through a variety of adventurous and humorous stories about young hunters. Ages 9 & up.

Author : Piers Vitebsky
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0618773576

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The Reindeer People by Piers Vitebsky Pdf

Cambridge anthropologist Piers Vitebsky, the first westerner to live with the Eveny of Siberia since the Russian revolution, brings readers an extraordinary case of survival in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. of photos.