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No Friend but the Mountains

Behrouz Boochani
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Author : Behrouz Boochani
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487006846

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No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani Pdf

Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text message, this work represents the harrowing experience of stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, No Friend but the Mountains is an extraordinary account — one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. “Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.” — From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize–winning author Richard Flanagan

Writing the Mountains

Jens Klenner
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Author : Jens Klenner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765106532

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Writing the Mountains reconsiders the role of mountains in German language fiction from 1800 to the present and argues that in a range of texts, from E.T.A. Hoffmann's “Die Bergwerke zu Falun” (1819) to Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten (1995) and beyond, mountains serve as dynamic spaces of material change that generate aesthetic and narrative innovation. In contrast to dominant critical approaches to the Alpine landscape in literature, in which mountain ranges often features as passive settings, or which trace the influence of geographical and geological sciences in literary productions, this study argues for the dynamic role in literature of presumably rigid mineral structures. In German-language fiction after 1800, the counter-intuitive topology of rocky mountain ranges and unfathomable subterranean depths of the Alpine imaginary functions as a space of exception which appears to reconfirm and radically challenge the foundations of Enlightenment thought. Writing the Mountains reads the mountain range as a rigid yet permeable liminal space. Within this zone, semiotic orders are unsettled, as is the division between organic and inorganic, between the human and the other.

She of the Mountains

Vivek Shraya
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Author : Vivek Shraya
Publisher : Arsenal Pulp Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551525617

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She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya Pdf

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We are the period to a sentence, the effect to a cause, always belonging to someone. We are never our own. This is why we are so lonely. She of the Mountains is a beautifully rendered illustrated novel by Vivek Shraya, the author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist God Loves Hair. Shraya weaves a passionate, contemporary love story between a man and his body, with a re-imagining of Hindu mythology. Both narratives explore the complexities of embodiment and the damaging effects that policing gender and sexuality can have on the human heart. Illustrations are by Raymond Biesinger, whose work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker and the New York Times. Vivek Shraya is a multimedia artist, working in the mediums of music, performance, literature, and film. His most recent film, What I LOVE about Being QUEER, has been expanded to include an online project and book with contributions from around the world. He is also author of God Loves Hair.

Have the Mountains Fallen?

Jeffrey B. Lilley
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Author : Jeffrey B. Lilley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253032430

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Have the Mountains Fallen? by Jeffrey B. Lilley Pdf

After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from two Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay was banished as a traitor from his native home land. Chinghiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, writing novels about the lives of everyday Soviet citizens but mourning a mystery that might never be solved. While both came from small villages in the beautiful mountainous countryside, they found themselves caught on opposite sides of the Cold War struggle between world superpowers. Altay became the voice of democracy on Radio Liberty, while Aitmatov rose through the ranks of Soviet politics. Yet just as they seemed to be pulled apart in the political turmoil, they found their lives intersecting in moving and surprising ways. Have the Mountains Fallen? traces the lives of these two men as they confronted the full threat and legacy of the Soviet empire. Through personal and intersecting narratives of loss, love, and longing for a homeland forever changed, a clearer picture emerges of the experience of the Cold War from the other side.

In the Cairngorms

Nan Shepherd
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Author : Nan Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1903385334

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Hill-walking was Shepherd's great love; her single collection of poetry, 'In the Cairngorms', expresses an intensity of deep kinship with nature. They are poems written with the perception of one who has climbed the mountains and truly knows them.

Minarets in the Mountains

Tharik Hussain
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Author : Tharik Hussain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1784778281

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Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain Pdf

Travel writing about Muslim Europe. A journey around Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, home to the largest indigenous Muslim population in Europe, following the footsteps of Evliya Celebi through Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro. A book that begins to decolonise European history.

The Answers are Inside the Mountains

William Stafford
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Author : William Stafford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015058097091

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The Answers are Inside the Mountains by William Stafford Pdf

Contains a collection of interviews, poems, and commentaries on the writings of author William Stafford.

The Mountains Next Door

Janice Emily Bowers
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Author : Janice Emily Bowers
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816546992

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The Mountains Next Door by Janice Emily Bowers Pdf

A charming natural history (inclined to botany) of the Rincon Mountains of SE Arizona. But the location is not carefully specified.

Mountains Piled Upon Mountains

Jessica Cory
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Author : Jessica Cory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1946684902

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Mountains Piled Upon Mountains by Jessica Cory Pdf

Mountains Piled upon Mountains features nearly fifty writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental nature writing, much of the work collected here engages current issues facing the region and the planet (such as hydraulic fracturing, water contamination, mountaintop removal, and deforestation), and provides readers with insights on the human-nature relationship in an era of rapid environmental change. This book includes a mix of new and recent creative work by established and emerging authors. The contributors write about experiences from northern Georgia to upstate New York, invite parallels between a watershed in West Virginia and one in North Carolina, and often emphasize connections between Appalachia and more distant locations. In the pages of Mountains Piled upon Mountains are celebration, mourning, confusion, loneliness, admiration, and other emotions and experiences rooted in place but transcending Appalachia's boundaries.

Mountains in the Mist

F. W. Boreham
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Author : F. W. Boreham
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 082549687X

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Mountains in the Mist by F. W. Boreham Pdf

Whether the subject is a historical event or an everyday occurrence, Boreham's thoughts on the subject are always rich in spiritual significance and application.

The Lettered Mountain

Frank L. Salomon,Mercedes Nino-Murcia
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Author : Frank L. Salomon,Mercedes Nino-Murcia
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822350270

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The Lettered Mountain by Frank L. Salomon,Mercedes Nino-Murcia Pdf

Andean peoples joined the world of alphabetic literacy nearly 500 years ago, yet the history of their literacy has remained hidden until now. In The Lettered Mountain, Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia expand notions of literacy and challenge stereotypes of Andean “orality” by analyzing the writings of mountain villagers from Inka times to the Internet era. Their historical ethnography is based on extensive research in the village of Tupicocha, in the central Peruvian province of Huarochirí. The region has a special place in the history of Latin American letters as the home of the unique early-seventeenth-century Quechua-language book explaining Peru’s ancient gods and priesthoods. Granted access to Tupicocha’s surprisingly rich internal archives, Salomon and Niño-Murcia found that legacy reflected in a distinctive version of lettered life developed prior to the arrival of state schools. In their detailed ethnography, writing emerges as a vital practice underlying specifically Andean sacred culture and self-governance. At the same time, the authors find that Andean relations with the nation-state have been disadvantaged by state writing standards developed in dialogue with European academies but not with the rural literate tradition.

Letters from the Mountain

Ben Palpant
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Author : Ben Palpant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 195187207X

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A series of letters from father to daughter, this elegant book is a writer's roadmap, passed down from one who has seen the climb ahead and sends back missives of encouragement, wisdom, caution, and love to any who follow. But more than a memoir of the craft itself, the book is a cartography of life itself and how to live it well, no matter your calling.

Men for the Mountains

Sid Marty
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Author : Sid Marty
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 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.

Reading the Mountains of Home

John Elder
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Author : John Elder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0674748883

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Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."

THE CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS

PKS
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Author : PKS
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636696973

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THE CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS by PKS Pdf

The Call of the Mountains is a collection of the author’s adventures and encounters with people, fauna, culture and ideas as they persist amongst the rough and at times hostile mountainous terrains of the Indian Himalayas. “…Amongst the rolling forested hills – plying the terrain over the many ridges and ravines – one could run into sambhar, kakar, wild pigs, and even now, sometimes a stray leopard or two. I had plenty of time at hand, no schedule to keep in the world, and my mind had spiralled down to a quiet, to a stillness, to a sort of singularity with being; when all of a sudden, inexplicable and without any perceptible sensory input that I can recall being aware of, I got a very strong feeling that something was watching me, and that I was not alone...” – ‘Snake’ “…Amongst the clump of trees that lay at the base of the hill, crouching low, almost on its belly, and with its right paw extended but airborne in line with its whiskered cheeks, was a spotted leopard. It stood in that bent-down position, its shoulder bones sticking out, neck extended, and its head inches above the ground; its left hind leg was extended behind it, and its right paw was frozen in mid-air. Absolutely still in that position, it was staring intently at a spot I could not see...” – ‘A Leopard on the Prowl’ The Call of the Mountains Close your eyes and in your mind If you can feel the cold chill of morning dew If you can hear the rush of water and smell the pines Then it is calling out to you too “Charming, entertaining & intelligent - A full bodied Mountain Wine!” - The Himalayan Commission