The River Is The Border
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The Line Becomes A River
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Author : Francisco Cantú
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-02-06
The Line Becomes A River written by Francisco Cantú and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
The River Is The Border
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Author : Ghirmay Neghasi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-05
The River Is The Border written by Ghirmay Neghasi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with categories.
Two people meet as baristas at a Marin County Starbucks in California. One, an immigrant from Germany, who became a citizen as a seven year old and lived her entire life in America; the other, a fresh refugee from Eritrea, who was granted asylum and had just found his first job in the U.S. The story begins when, struggling to understand him through his thick accent and limited vocabulary, she finally asked, "Where you from?"Meeting once a week, over coffee at their local café's, Robel spills his tales of danger, anxiety, prisons, shifty traffickers, hope, courage, and death. The quest for freedom fueled a story that journeys through 14 countries. The geography of which, spans half the globe, including the great Saharan Desert. What brought the storyteller and writer together? -The optimism of living in America and coffee.
The Fence And The River
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Author : Claire F. Fox
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1999
The Fence And The River written by Claire F. Fox and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Social Science categories.
Offers an illustrated study that asks how the art produced about the U.S.-Mexico border reflects political and economic transformations occurring world-wide.
Many Rivers To Cross
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Author : Joris Verwijmeren
language : en
Publisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Release Date : 2007
Many Rivers To Cross written by Joris Verwijmeren and has been published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Environmental management categories.
River basin management is a key concept in contemporary water policy. Since the management of rivers is best designed and implemented at the scale of the river basin, it seems obvious that we should not confine ourselves to administrative or geographical borders. In other words, river basin management implies crossing borders. Experience with river policies shows that this is easier said than done, though. This book reveals how cross border co-operation in river management looks today. It first analyses the literature in this field of policy and research and then goes on to describe five cases of cross border initiatives in quite different corners of Europe. By using well-developed indicators and an elaborate analytical framework, it deals systematically with opportunities for and barriers to cross border co-operation on European rivers. Including chapters about the following rivers: Rhine (Verwijmeren), IJssel (Feld, Locker-Grütjen), Vecht (Lulofs, Coenen), Evros, Bug
Border Land Border Water
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Author : C. J. Alvarez
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2019-10-22
Border Land Border Water written by C. J. Alvarez and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-22 with History categories.
From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twenty-first century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet. Tracing the accretion of ports of entry, boundary markers, transportation networks, fences and barriers, surveillance infrastructure, and dams and other river engineering projects, C. J. Alvarez advances a broad chronological narrative that captures the full life cycle of border building. He explains how initial groundbreaking in the nineteenth century transitioned to unbridled faith in the capacity to control the movement of people, goods, and water through the use of physical structures. By the 1960s, however, the built environment of the border began to display increasingly obvious systemic flaws. More often than not, Alvarez shows, federal agencies in both countries responded with more construction—“compensatory building” designed to mitigate unsustainable policies relating to immigration, black markets, and the natural world. Border Land, Border Water reframes our understanding of how the border has come to look and function as it does and is essential to current debates about the future of the US-Mexico divide.
The River Has Never Divided Us
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Author : Jefferson Morgenthaler
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The River Has Never Divided Us written by Jefferson Morgenthaler and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de los Rios straddles the border between Texas and Chihuahua, occupying the basin formed by the conjunction of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the Chihuahuan Desert, ranking in age and dignity with the Anasazi pueblos of New Mexico. In the first comprehensive history of the region, Jefferson Morgenthaler traces the history of La Junta de los Rios from the formation of the Mexico-Texas border in the mid-19th century to the 1997 ambush shooting of teenage goatherd Esquiel Hernandez by U.S. Marines performing drug interdiction in El Polvo, Texas. "Though it is scores of miles from a major highway, I found natives, soldiers, rebels, bandidos, heroes, scoundrels, drug lords, scalp hunters, medal winners, and mystics," writes Morgenthaler. "I found love, tragedy, struggle, and stories that have never been told." In telling the turbulent history of this remote valley oasis, he examines the consequences of a national border running through a community older than the invisible line that divides it.
The Line Becomes A River
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Author : Francisco Cantú
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-02-05
The Line Becomes A River written by Francisco Cantú and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Cantú tries not to think where the stories go from there. Plagued by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the whole story. Searing and unforgettable, The Line Becomes a River goes behind the headlines, making urgent and personal the violence our border wreaks on both sides of the line
La L Nea Se Convierte En R O Una Cr Nica De La Frontera The Line Becomes A River
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Author : Francisco Cantú
language : es
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-04-10
La L Nea Se Convierte En R O Una Cr Nica De La Frontera The Line Becomes A River written by Francisco Cantú and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Uno de los diez mejores libros de 2018 según el Washington Post Nominado al premio Orwell en el Reino Unido Para Francisco Cantú, la frontera está en la sangre. Su madre, una guardabosques del Servicio Nacional de Parques, hija de un inmigrante mexicano, lo crió en los matorrales del suroeste. Atormentado por el paisaje de su juventud, Cantú se alistó a la Patrulla Fronteriza. Él y sus compañeros son enviados a regiones remotas atravesadas por rutas de contrabando de drogas y tráfico de personas, donde aprenden a rastrear a otros humanos bajo el sol abrasador y noches heladas, arrastrando muertos y entregando a los que encuentran vivos. Cantú intenta no pensar en el final de esas historias. Acosado por pesadillas, Cantú abandona la Patrulla por la vida civil. Pero cuando un amigo inmigrante viaja a México para visitar a su madre y no regresa, Cantú descubre que la frontera migró con el, y esta vez tiene que conocer toda la historia. Intenso e inolvidable, La línea se convierte en río hace que sintamos la violencia de ambos lados de nuestra frontera como algo inmediato y personal. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
Our Wisconsin River Border To Border
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Author : Nels Akerlund
language : en
Publisher: Pamacheyon Pub
Release Date : 1997
Our Wisconsin River Border To Border written by Nels Akerlund and has been published by Pamacheyon Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Nature categories.
The River And The Wall
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Author : Ben Masters
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-22
The River And The Wall written by Ben Masters and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-22 with Travel categories.
When a team of five explorers embarked on a 1,200-mile journey down the Rio Grande, the river that marks the southern boundary of Texas and the US-Mexico border, their goal was to experience and capture on film the rugged landscapes of this vast frontier before the controversial construction of a border wall changed this part of the river forever. The crew—Texas filmmaker Ben Masters, Brazilian immigrant Filipe DeAndrade, Texas conservationist Jay Kleberg, wildlife biologist Heather Mackey, and Guatemalan-American river guide Austin Alvarado—began the trip in El Paso, pedaling mountain bikes through the city’s dry river bed. Their path took them on horseback through the Big Bend, down the Wild and Scenic stretch of the river in canoes, and back to bikes from Laredo to Brownsville. They paddled the last ten miles through a forest of river cane to the Gulf of Mexico. As they made their way to the Gulf, they met and talked with the people who know and live on the river—border patrol, wildlife biologists, ranchers, politicians, farmers, social workers, locals, and travelers. They climbed the wall (in twenty seconds). They encountered rare black bears, bighorn sheep, and birds of all kinds. And they sought to understand the complexities of immigration, the efficacy of a wall, and the impact of its construction on water access, wildlife, and the culture of the borderlands. The River and the Wall is both a wild adventure on a spectacular river and a sobering commentary on the realities of walling it off.