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Download or read book Waterlily written by Ella Cara Deloria and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family?s camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria?s tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people. Waterlily, published after Deloria?s death and generally viewed as the masterpiece of her career, offers a captivating glimpse into the daily life of the nineteenth-century Sioux. This new Bison Books edition features an introduction by Susan Gardner and an index.
Book Synopsis House of the Waterlily by : Kelli Carmean
Download or read book House of the Waterlily written by Kelli Carmean and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Maya civilization’s Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily is a historical novel centered on Lady Winik, a young Maya royal. Through tribulations that mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik’s personal story immerses the reader not only in her daily life, but also in the difficult decisions Maya men and women must have faced as they tried to navigate a rapidly changing world. Kelli Carmean’s novel brings to life a people and an era remote from our own, yet recognizably human all the same.
Book Synopsis The Flower of Empire by : Tatiana Holway
Download or read book The Flower of Empire written by Tatiana Holway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Download or read book House Beautiful written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Waterlilies and Lotuses by : Perry D. Slocum
Download or read book Waterlilies and Lotuses written by Perry D. Slocum and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully updated work, Perry Slocum describes nearly 500 species and cultivars of the crowning jewels of water gardens, the waterlilies and lotuses. This book includes more than 130 of the best new hybrids introduced since the landmark Water Gardening: Water Lilies and Lotuses by Perry Slocum and Peter Robinson was published. All species and the major cultivars, including day- and night-blooming tropical and hardy waterlilies and lotuses, are described along with the author's and hybridizers' comments on the best landscape uses for each plant. Although the genera Nymphaea and Nelumbo receive special emphasis, a chapter is also devoted to the other genera in the waterlily family, Nuphar, Victoria, Euryale, Barclaya, and Ondinea. In addition to his achievements as a hybridizer, Slocum is an award-winning nature photographer. Waterlilies and Lotuses is illustrated with 350 stunning color photographs of these exotic beauties, with more than 100 photos published here for the first time. With information on hardiness, including maps for Europe and the United States, and an extensive list of suppliers of water gardening plants and equipment in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, Waterlilies and Lotuses is a truly definitive resource for water gardeners the world over.
Book Synopsis A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight by : John Murray (Firm)
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. By Richard J. King. With Map by : John Murray (Firm)
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. By Richard J. King. With Map written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ... With Maps and Plans by : John Murray (Firm)
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ... With Maps and Plans written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Triumph of the Water Lily by : Stella Osammor
Download or read book The Triumph of the Water Lily written by Stella Osammor and published by Delta Maria Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original story; fresh and realistic. It is a book about topical issues in Nigerian marriages, culture clashes, childlessness, pride and humility, grief and pain, love and joy, politics, the diverse forms of religion inherent in Nigeria. It is a book about qualities and values which transcend culture, ethnicity. A book about profound nature of an African thriving in the midst of adversity. The Triumph of the Water Lily is a celebration of womanhood. It is a moving exploration of life and death, in which Effua, the narrator, tells of a passionate story of trial and tribulation, of the triumph of love and life, even in the throes of death. The novel attests to the nobility, elegance and profound goodness of Nkem, the central character. It is also a courageous story of romance filled with excitement, novelty and moments of shock, particularly for Effua, whose life has been inexorably influenced by Nkem's.
Book Synopsis The Water Lily Cross by : Anthony Eglin
Download or read book The Water Lily Cross written by Anthony Eglin and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Kingston is asked to search for a botanist friend who has gone missing. With nothing but a scrap of paper with a bewildering cryptic message, he begins to investigate. He discovers that his friend was experimenting with aquatic plants and has stumbled on a horticultural breakthrough with staggering implications, one that could ultimately generate billions of dollars in revenue: a unique and giant form of Amazonian water lily. Convinced that influential people are involved in the disappearance, he pursues more leads, but circumstances beyond his control plunge him deeper into jeopardy and a corporate world of ruthless, greedy men who are not to be stopped. Kingston presses on, knowing that his missing friend's life--and his own--both hang by a very slender thread. As with the highly acclaimed The Lost Gardens, Eglin brings his botanical and literary skill to this new mystery.
Download or read book Claude Monet written by Ann Temkin and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: including the destruction of two works in a fire in 1958 - and underscores the resonance of these paintings with the art and artists of the last half-century." --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis A Manual and Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns by : John Christopher Willis
Download or read book A Manual and Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns written by John Christopher Willis and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Manual and Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns: Outlines of the morphology, natural history, classification, geographical distribution and economic uses of the phanerogams and ferns by : John Christopher Willis
Download or read book A Manual and Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns: Outlines of the morphology, natural history, classification, geographical distribution and economic uses of the phanerogams and ferns written by John Christopher Willis and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House & Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Onion You Are Eating Is Someone Else's Water Lily by : Bernice Gorham Cherry
Download or read book The Onion You Are Eating Is Someone Else's Water Lily written by Bernice Gorham Cherry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting tale of family, faith, and survival, Abner's Story begins in the 1730's after ten-year-old Abner and his friend Schotzy hear William Penn's land agent tell of the opportunities in Pennsylvania. The boys are excited and ask Abner's grandpa to teach them all they need to know to go to America, including how to build a house. As Grandpa is planning to repair Widow Schneider's porch the next day he agrees to begin by taking the boys along to help. However, he is unaware that Schotzy's grandfather, a widower, has plans of his own. He accompanies Schotzy to the work site where he sweet talks the widow and then disappears. The boys are caught up in a series of events over which they have no control. There is tension in the village because by law, everyone must worship in the official church. However, Abner's family belongs to a group that refused to do so. The king has forced Abner's father to work for him, and is beginning to clamp down on the dissidents. Trouble breaks out when several boys from their religious group play a prank at the official church. "This work makes a contribution toward retaining a fast-vanishing culture that of the Pennsylvania Dutch. One intriguing part of their culture is its language, which is a form of German rather than Dutch. The language is often interspersed with English words, and some English speakers of Pennsylvania Dutch intersperse their language with German words. It's all part of what makes the Pennsylvania Dutch seem so quaint. Abner's Story digs into that culture and its language. Indeed, it effectively begins before the Pennsylvania Dutch era to when they were farmers living in Germany. One other point: Abner's Story describes powwowing and other Pennsylvania Dutch superstitions. Powwowing, a kind of faith healing bordering on white magic, will intrigue readers turning these pages. Information on these practices, also on the wane in Pennsylvania Dutch culture, deserve to be captured for posterity. Abner's Story does just that." James McClure, Managing Editor, York Daily Record York, Pennsylvania. "As York County celebrates the past 250 years, we commend the heartfelt effort to document and preserve this facet of our heritage? Rarely have I read a story that expressed the feelings of the people who were not the stereotypical adventurers that we like to think came here. Rather, they are ordinary folks being stifled by others' belief systems. They only thought of leaving their beloved homeland after it was no longer safe to stay in their own homes." Karen Hostetter, Headquarters Manager, 250th Year Anniversary Committee of York County, York, Pennsylvania. Abner's Story is not difficult reading and is suitable for the entire family as well as public, private, and Christian schools. It is historically accurate, fast moving, filled with interesting characters, laced with ethical values and humor, as well as pathos and mystery.
Book Synopsis Garden & Home Builder by : William Tyler Miller
Download or read book Garden & Home Builder written by William Tyler Miller and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Waterlily written by Kate Llewellyn and published by Australia in Print. This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
