Those Trees Outlive Them
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Those Trees Outlive Them
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Author : Jani Abro
language : en
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Release Date : 2024-05-24
Those Trees Outlive Them written by Jani Abro and has been published by Austin Macauley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-24 with Fiction categories.
Spanning five generations from 1870 to 2013, this fascinating saga begins in a small village in colonial India and ends in modern-day New York City. Each chapter unfurls both an individual story and part of an epic family history. Jani's prose is visually rich and poetically weaves characters' tales with intense, lyrical details. From British colonial rule in India, to Pakistan's chaotic democracy, to 21st century America, inquisitive readers will adore this multi-dimensional cultural journey. We first meet Fakir, a fatherless child who becomes a mystical storyteller, then an unlikely entrepreneur. Runaway teen Alam reinvents himself as an art teacher and womanizer over his adventures. Ambitious Ali Gohar journeys from Pakistan to attend NYU, while Jani grows up enduring racial tensions in 1980s Sindh before pursuing the "American Dream." Finally, young physician Kabeer gives up a lucrative U.S. career to volunteer overseas, only to get swept back to his homeland by devastating floods. Spanning continents and colourful personalities, Those Trees Outlived Them is an intimate look at one family's roots across borders and generations.
Those Trees Outlive Them
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Author : Jani Abro
language : en
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Release Date : 2024-05-24
Those Trees Outlive Them written by Jani Abro and has been published by Austin Macauley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-24 with Fiction categories.
Spanning five generations from 1870 to 2013, this fascinating saga begins in a small village in colonial India and ends in modern-day New York City. Each chapter unfurls both an individual story and part of an epic family history. Jani’s prose is visually rich and poetically weaves characters’ tales with intense, lyrical details. From British colonial rule in India, to Pakistan’s chaotic democracy, to 21st century America, inquisitive readers will adore this multi-dimensional cultural journey. We first meet Fakir, a fatherless child who becomes a mystical storyteller, then an unlikely entrepreneur. Runaway teen Alam reinvents himself as an art teacher and womanizer over his adventures. Ambitious Ali Gohar journeys from Pakistan to attend NYU, while Jani grows up enduring racial tensions in 1980s Sindh before pursuing the “American Dream.” Finally, young physician Kabeer gives up a lucrative U.S. career to volunteer overseas, only to get swept back to his homeland by devastating floods. Spanning continents and colourful personalities, Those Trees Outlived Them is an intimate look at one family’s roots across borders and generations.
The Magic Of Coin Trees From Religion To Recreation
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Author : Ceri Houlbrook
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-23
The Magic Of Coin Trees From Religion To Recreation written by Ceri Houlbrook and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-23 with History categories.
This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been ritually embedded. This is a contemporary custom which can be traced back in the literature to the 1700s, when it was practiced for folk-medical and dedicatory purposes. Today, the custom is widespread, with over 200 coin-trees distributed across the British Isles, but is more akin to the casual deposition of coins in a wishing-well: coins are deposited in the tree in exchange for wishes, good luck, or future fortune. Ceri Houlbrook contributes to the debate on the historic relationships between religion, ritual, and popular magic in British contexts from 1700 to the present.
The Tree Dispensary
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Author : Christina Stapley
language : en
Publisher: Aeon Books
Release Date : 2021-04-19
The Tree Dispensary written by Christina Stapley and has been published by Aeon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-19 with Health & Fitness categories.
The Tree Dispensary explores the history, folklore and medicinal uses of native European trees, beautifully illustrated with the author's own photographs.The book presents a thorough and deep appreciation of trees as the author has experienced them through everyday life, as a herb historian and practising herbalist. Categorised into seasons, each of the 30 tree chapters covers cultivation, cookery, foraging, crafts, history, botany, medicinal use and mythology. Original herbals are used as source material for the historical section, allowing voices from the past to speak for themselves. A 'Herbalists Reference' for each tree includes medicinal uses, dosage and constituents and reflects the author's own extensive experience of using these wonderful tree remedies. 'For years as a herbalist I had been walking about looking down for what was growing around my feet. The emphasis changed to looking up and I was delighted by the exquisite detail of tiny female flowers on trees, which I simply could not believe I had missed before. I took photographs, pressed herbarium samples, harvested and studied...experimented with barks, catkins and leaves to produce dyes. Never again will a tincture or dried herb of tree origin be simply a name on a label and a list of constituents, actions and indications. I hope as you read this book...you will also feel a stronger connection and wish to explore, plant and care for trees yourselves.'Volume 2 of The Tree Dispensary covering exotic trees will be published in Autumn 2021.
The Ecology Of The Trees Shrubs And Woody Vines Of Northern Florida
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Author : Robert W. Simons
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2021-07-19
The Ecology Of The Trees Shrubs And Woody Vines Of Northern Florida written by Robert W. Simons and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-19 with Science categories.
This book is an invaluable compilation of ecological information on 244 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines found in the northern half of the Florida peninsula and in the Florida Panhandle. It covers the full range of native species in the region as well as common exotic plants, drawing on original experience and field research by ecologist Robert Simons. For each species, Simons describes the plant’s leaves, flowers, and fruit, geographical distribution, size, and lifespan. He also discusses its typical habitats, soil and light requirements, water needs and flooding tolerance, adaptation to fire, economic importance, and the plants, insects, and diseases most often associated with it. Notably, the book focuses on each plant’s relationship with wildlife, including which species eat the fruit or foliage or pollinate the flowers. It also features an introduction to the biological communities of northern Florida and a helpful glossary of botanical terms. The Ecology of the Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida provides gardeners, landscapers, scientists, and students a foundational understanding of how these plants fit into the communities of organisms in which they live and how they have adapted to their place in their physical environment.
Thoreau And The Language Of Trees
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Author : Richard Higgins
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-04-04
Thoreau And The Language Of Trees written by Richard Higgins and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with Science categories.
Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow in the air, he was speaking about himself. In short, he spoke their language. In this original book, Richard Higgins explores Thoreau’s deep connections to trees: his keen perception of them, the joy they gave him, the poetry he saw in them, his philosophical view of them, and how they fed his soul. His lively essays show that trees were a thread connecting all parts of Thoreau’s being—heart, mind, and spirit. Included are one hundred excerpts from Thoreau’s writings about trees, paired with over sixty of the author’s photographs. Thoreau’s words are as vivid now as they were in 1890, when an English naturalist wrote that he was unusually able to “to preserve the flashing forest colors in unfading light.” Thoreau and the Language of Trees shows that Thoreau, with uncanny foresight, believed trees were essential to the preservation of the world.
Annual Report Of The Arkansas State Horticultural Society
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Author : Arkansas State Horticultural Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Annual Report Of The Arkansas State Horticultural Society written by Arkansas State Horticultural Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Horticulture categories.
The Cultivator A Monthly Journal Devoted To Agriculture Horitcluture Floriculture And To Domestic And Rural Economy New Series Vol Iii
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Author : The Cultivator
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1846
The Cultivator A Monthly Journal Devoted To Agriculture Horitcluture Floriculture And To Domestic And Rural Economy New Series Vol Iii written by The Cultivator and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1846 with categories.
The Routledge Handbook Of Memory And Place
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Author : Sarah De Nardi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-20
The Routledge Handbook Of Memory And Place written by Sarah De Nardi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-20 with Architecture categories.
This Handbook explores the latest cross-disciplinary research on the inter-relationship between memory studies, place, and identity. In the works of dynamic memory, there is room for multiple stories, versions of the past and place understandings, and often resistance to mainstream narratives. Places may live on long after their physical destruction. This collection provides insights into the significant and diverse role memory plays in our understanding of the world around us, in a variety of spaces and temporalities, and through a variety of disciplinary and professional lenses. Many of the chapters in this Handbook explore place-making, its significance in everyday lives, and its loss. Processes of displacement, where people’s place attachments are violently torn asunder, are also considered. Ranging from oral history to forensic anthropology, from folklore studies to cultural geographies and beyond, the chapters in this Handbook reveal multiple and often unexpected facets of the fascinating relationship between place and memory, from the individual to the collective. This is a multi- and intra-disciplinary collection of the latest, most influential approaches to the interwoven and dynamic issues of place and memory. It will be of great use to researchers and academics working across Geography, Tourism, Heritage, Anthropology, Memory Studies, and Archaeology.
More Than Sport Soft Power And Potemkinism In The 2018 Men S Football World Cup In Russia
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Author : Sven Daniel Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Release Date : 2021-01-07
More Than Sport Soft Power And Potemkinism In The 2018 Men S Football World Cup In Russia written by Sven Daniel Wolfe and has been published by LIT Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the 2018 Men's Football World Cup in Russia through a comparison of the host cities of Ekaterinburg and Volgograd - two major but peripheral cities little discussed outside of Russia. It unpacks the World Cup at multiple scales of analysis, from global political economic processes, Russian national state spatial strategies, uneven municipal developments, the creation and distribution of soft power narratives to the domestic audience, and varieties of adoption or refusal of those narratives among host city residents. In so doing, the book offers a light and revisable framework for understanding mega-events regardless of national context. Sven Daniel Wolfe is junior lecturer at the University of Lausanne. He studies mega-events, urban development, and the cultures of protest and resistance.