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Reading The Mountains Of Home

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Author : John Elder
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998

Reading The Mountains Of Home written by John Elder and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.

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."

My Side Of The Mountain

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Author : Jean Craighead George
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2001-05-21

My Side Of The Mountain written by Jean Craighead George and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-21 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

Home Is Beyond The Mountains

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Author : Celia Lottridge
language : en
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Release Date : 2010-04-01

Home Is Beyond The Mountains written by Celia Lottridge and has been published by Groundwood Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.

Home To Medicine Mountain

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Author : Chiori Santiago
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2002-09

Home To Medicine Mountain written by Chiori Santiago and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09 with Fiction categories.

Two young Maidu Indian brothers sent to live at a government-run Indian residential school in California in the 1930s find a way to escape and return home for the summer

A Mountain Home

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Author : M. J. Cosson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-06-24

A Mountain Home written by M. J. Cosson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-24 with JUVENILE NONFICTION categories.

Identifies different types of mountains, explains how they form, grow, and change, and introduces the types of plants and animals found at different elevations.

Reading Essentials In Science

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Author : M. J. Cosson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date :

Reading Essentials In Science written by M. J. Cosson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

The five types of mountains provide a variety of habitats for plants and animals.

At The Mountain S Base

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Author : Traci Sorell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-09-17

At The Mountain S Base written by Traci Sorell and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots. At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war. With an author's note that pays homage to the true history of Native American U.S. service members like WWII pilot Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat, this is a story that reveals the roots that ground us, the dreams that help us soar, and the people and traditions that hold us up.

The Mountains Of California

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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

The Mountains Of California written by John Muir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with California categories.

The Living Mountain

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Author : Nan Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2008-11-15

The Living Mountain written by Nan Shepherd and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-15 with Nature categories.

AS SEEN ON BBC’S WINTERWATCH WITH CHRIS PACKHAM AND MICHAELA STRACHAN 'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.

When I Was Young In The Mountains

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Author : Cynthia Rylant
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1993-01-01

When I Was Young In The Mountains written by Cynthia Rylant and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International