Where Mountains are Nameless
Author: Jonathan Waterman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780393052190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis portrait makes the stakes over the refuge vividly clear."--Jacket.
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Songs of a Sourdough
Author: Robert William Service
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781015403338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Reading with a Passion
Author: Jeffrey Staley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2002-06-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780826414328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this strikingly personal account of recent literary approaches to the Bible, Jeffrey Staley shows how people's life experiences relate to what they read in the Scriptures. He illustrates his argument from theories of autobiography, where recent literary and feminist critiques provide him with tools for reflecting upon his childhood on a Navajo reservation and his family's five generations of contact with the Navajo people in northern Arizona and New Mexico.Using Tony Hillerman's popular detective novels as a lens to refract his own childhood memories, Staley investigates how his cross-cultural childhood and family history have contributed to his understanding of the Fourth Gospel.By combining such diverse materials as popular fiction, medieval passion plays, cultural anthropology, rhetorical studies, and autobiographical reflection, Staley takes his readers on a fascinating spiritual and intellectual journey through the Gospel of John.
The Spell of the Yukon
Author: Robert William Service
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the verse of Robert Service including The shooting of Dan McGrew, The cremation of Sam McGee, and My Madonna.
The Drake's Gift
Author: TJ Freeman
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2023-05-05
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbout the Book A tired old man lives alone in the ruined settlement of a splintered faction at the tallest peak in the Blood Mountains. Aided by the mysterious nature of the mountains, no creature ventures upward while he stands guard. That’s how it was for nearly fifty years. Then, someone new arrives at the mountains, and the nameless guardian decides that if he is to face what’s coming next and prevail, they must not leave. As the two prepare themselves, unseen threats formed by fear and regrets loom behind each of them.
Names on the Land
Author: George R. Stewart
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2008-07-01
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1590172736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life. Names on the Land is a fascinating and fantastically detailed panorama of language in action. Stewart opens with the first European names in what would later be the United States—Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortés’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red Rio Colorado—before going on to explore New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden, the French and the Russian legacies, and the unlikely contributions of everybody from border ruffians to Boston Brahmins. These lively pages examine where and why Indian names were likely to be retained; nineteenth-century fads that gave rise to dozens of Troys and Athens and to suburban Parksides, Brookmonts, and Woodcrest Manors; and deep and enduring mysteries such as why “Arkansas” is Arkansaw, except of course when it isn’t. Names on the Land will engage anyone who has ever wondered at the curious names scattered across the American map. Stewart’s answer is always a story—one of the countless stories that lie behind the rich and strange diversity of the USA.
Mountain of Madness
Author: Derek Prior
Publisher: Homunculus
Published: 2019-06-28
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAwakened from an induced year-long slumber, the Nameless Dwarf is tortured with memories of slaughter and must come to terms with who he has become: an outcast, a butcher, the most reviled of dwarven-kind. As forces of unimaginable destruction coalesce around the mountain fortress of a mad sorcerer, the philosopher Aristodeus puts together a team for a last desperate attempt to avert the coming cataclysm: A knight besieged by doubts, who has been prepared since a child for the current crisis, yet is crumbling under the pressure of the task before him; An albino assassin who denies the truth of what he really is; A woman with a black sword as disturbing as the axe responsible for the massacre at Arx Gravis; And a dwarf with no name, who will either carve out the path of his own redemption or condemn the world to a night that will never end.
LIFE
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Published: 1945-07-02
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: June 10-September 26, 1806
Author: Meriwether Lewis
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780803229037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 8 of this prize-winning new edition continues the return of the expeditionary party, from their base at Camp Chopunnish on the Clearwater River in present Idaho back to St. Louis. At the outset, they are hindered by deep snow; but after returning to obtain help from Nez Perce guides they make rapid progress, so much so that at their Travelers’ Rest Camp near the site of today’s Missoula, Montana, the captains divide the party for separate explorations. Lewis heads east to the Missouri River, then north along the Marias to examine the northern extent of the Louisiana Purchase; Clark goes southeast toward the Yellowstone to explore that river and to make contact with local Indians. Lewis’s party suffers various forms of ill luck—grizzlies, horse thieves, and a violent encounter with a party of Piegan Blackfeet (the only trouble of this kind on the expedition)—and Lewis is wounded by one of his own men in a hunting accident. Clark’s group has its own troubles, although not as severe as those of Lewis and his men. The two parties eventually reunite on August 12 in present North Dakota and continue downriver. They revisit Indian tribes—Mandans, Hidatsas, Arikaras, and Yankton Sioux—they had met on the way out, and encounter traders and trappers going upriver. They arrive back in St. Louis to a triumphal welcome on September 23.
