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Bird Cloud
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Author : Annie Proulx
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-09-27
Bird Cloud written by Annie Proulx and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author describes her purchase of six hundred wilderness acres in Wyoming and construction of a library-centric home where she contemplated her rich family history, including a river boat captain ancestor who met historical figures.
Bird Cloud
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Author : Annie Proulx
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Bird Cloud written by Annie Proulx and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Large type books categories.
Annie Proulx invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil.
Bird Cloud
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Author : Annie Proulx
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Bird Cloud written by Annie Proulx and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there. “Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she wanted to build on it—a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Bird Cloud is the story of designing and constructing that house—with its solar panels, Japanese soak tub, concrete floor, and elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the region—inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho, and Shoshone Indians—and a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers. Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of observation and compassion, here turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.
Bird Cloud
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Author : Annie Proulx
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-10-29
Bird Cloud written by Annie Proulx and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-29 with categories.
"Bird Cloud", c'est le nom d'un petit arpent de désert sur lequel, après des années de nomadisme, Annie Proulx décide de s'installer et de bâtir la maison de ses rêves, au coeur du Wyoming sauvage. Bird Cloud est d'abord le récit de cette épopée architecturale, dont Annie Proulx retrace les étapes - des repérages au choix des matériaux, des problèmes de cadastre à ceux de la plomberie - avec passion et humour. Mais c'est aussi l'occasion, pour l'un des auteurs les plus farouches des lettres américaines, de lever le voile sur son histoire personnelle. Creusant les fondations de sa propre généalogie en même temps que celles de sa maison, l'auteur de Brokeback Mountain nous emmène sur les traces de ses ancêtres et démontre, à travers ce portrait autobiographique sans fard, qu'il n'est de réelle résidence, pour l'écrivain, que la littérature.
Vesper Flights
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Author : Helen Macdonald
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-08-27
Vesper Flights written by Helen Macdonald and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-27 with Nature categories.
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches. Vesper Flights is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us. Moving and frank, personal and political, it confirms Helen Macdonald as one of this century's greatest nature writers. A perfect read for anyone looking for renewed appreciation for the natural world. 'Helen Macdonald is one of the best nature writers now working' The Telegraph
To The Cloud
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Author : Vincent Mosco
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-17
To The Cloud written by Vincent Mosco and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Political Science categories.
Cloud computing and big data are arguably the most significant forces in information technology today. In the wake of revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) activities, many of which occur "in the cloud", this book offers both enlightenment and a critical view. Vincent Mosco explores where the cloud originated, what it means, and how important it is for business, government and citizens. He describes the intense competition among cloud companies like Amazon and Google, the spread of the cloud to government agencies like the controversial NSA, and the astounding growth of entire cloud cities in China. Is the cloud the long-promised information utility that will solve many of the world's economic and social problems? Or is it just marketing hype? To the Cloud provides the first thorough analysis of the potential and the problems of a technology that may very well disrupt the world.
The Best American Travel Writing 2011
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Author : Jason Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2011
The Best American Travel Writing 2011 written by Jason Wilson and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the past year, selected from American magazines and newspapers.
Church Of Birds
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Author : Ben H. Gagnon
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Church Of Birds written by Ben H. Gagnon and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Religion categories.
As humanity steadily decimates the global bird population, scientists and scholars are discovering that birds may have played a greater role in shaping human evolution than primates. Our distant ancestors imitated birdsong to develop language and followed bird migration flyways around the world, consistently settling in prime bird habitat. Church of Birds is an eco-history of human evolution that’s supported by recent scientific discoveries, ancient myth, and sacred texts. Across dozens of cultures, migratory birds were seen as divine agents of a benevolent sun, delivering seeds to the landscape in spring and guiding souls to a heavenly paradise in the fall. These mythic roles were ultimately incorporated into Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Last And First Men Star Maker
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Author : Olaf Stapledon
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1968-01-01
Last And First Men Star Maker written by Olaf Stapledon and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Two science fiction novels, written during the nineteen thirties, chronicle the future of civilization, foretelling such events as the worldwide fuel shortage and man's exploration of space
Star Maker
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Author : William Stapledon
language : en
Publisher: Jovian Press
Release Date : 2017-12-12
Star Maker written by William Stapledon and has been published by Jovian Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-12 with Fiction categories.
Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledon's descriptions of alien life are a political commentary on human life in the turbulent inter-war years. The book challenges preconceived notions of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a prodigious novel."