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Land of a Thousand Hills

Author : Rosamond Halsey Carr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101143517
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Land of a Thousand Hills written by Rosamond Halsey Carr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. Land of a Thousand Hills is Carr's thrilling memoir of her life in Rwanda—a love affair with a country and a people that has spanned half a century. During those years, she has experienced everything from stalking leopards to rampaging elephants, drought, the mysterious murder of her friend Dian Fossey, and near-bankruptcy. She has chugged up the Congo River on a paddle-wheel steamboat, been serenaded by pygmies, and witnessed firsthand the collapse of colonialism. Following 1994's Hutu-Tutsi genocide, Carr turned her plantation into a shelter for the lost and orphaned children-work she continues to this day, at the age of eighty-seven.

One Thousand Hills

Author : James Roy
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443157600
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book One Thousand Hills written by James Roy and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-wrenching story of how one young boy's life was forever changed during the Rwandan genocide Agabande, Rwanda, April 1994. Life is simple but good. Pascal and his brother go to school with their friends, their parents work hard, their little sister is growing up, and on Sunday almost everyone they know goes to church to thank God for his goodness. But lately, there have been whispers and suspicious glances around town, and messages of hate on the radio, and people are leaving. . . Then, in one awful night, Pascal's ordinary life in the land of one thousand hills is turned upside down. One Thousand Hills an important story of the awful consequences of unfettered prejudice in the modern world, written by a survivor.

A Thousand Hills to Heaven

Author : Josh Ruxin
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316232890
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Hills to Heaven written by Josh Ruxin and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant? While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country's rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success. Remarkably, they found that between helping youth marry their own local ingredients with gourmet recipes (and mix up "the best guacamole in Africa") and teaching them how to help themselves, they created much-needed jobs while showing that genocide's survivors really could work together. While first a memoir of love, adventure, and family, A Thousand Hills to Heaven also provides a remarkable view of how, through health, jobs, and economic growth, our foreign aid programs can be quickly remodeled and work to end poverty worldwide.

A Thousand Hills

Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 047073003X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Hills written by Stephen Kinzer and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame’s early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the United States, the way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda.

Be You. Do Good.

Author : Jonathan David Golden
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493401440
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Be You. Do Good. written by Jonathan David Golden and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost anyone you ask would say that they want to do work that matters. Yet many people do not feel like they are actively making a difference in the world. Others may feel a sense of calling but lack either the courage or the supportive community to carry it out. But if God created each of us on purpose, for a purpose, we should be ordering our lives around that purpose. Jonathan D. Golden, founder of Land of a Thousand Hills coffee company, has discovered and is living out his unique calling to promote social, spiritual, and economic justice while providing a living wage to 2,500 farmers in Rwanda. Now he reveals to readers how to identify their calling, dispels the myths and misunderstandings we often have about what constitutes a calling, and challenges them to pursue that calling with a courage that can surmount the many obstacles that may lie in their path. He also shows readers how to cultivate a community of support that will help them fulfill their calling. For anyone who is dissatisfied with the work they are doing, just entering the workforce, or wondering what more is out there, this book reveals how to embrace the meaningful life they were meant to live.

The Cattle on a Thousand Hills

Author : Robert Glass Cleland
Publisher : Huntington Library Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873280068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Cattle on a Thousand Hills written by Robert Glass Cleland and published by Huntington Library Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles Southern California's transition from a cattle frontier under Mexican rule to an agricultural American community, describing how the gradual shift impacted the region's people and economy.

These Thousand Hills

Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395755204
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (552 download)

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Book Synopsis These Thousand Hills by : Alfred Bertram Guthrie

Download or read book These Thousand Hills written by Alfred Bertram Guthrie and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to The big sky and The way west--Cover.

A Thousand Deer

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292737955
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Deer written by Rick Bass and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass's family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country—"the Deer Pasture"—for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up what hunting there has taught him about our need for wildness and wilderness, about cycles in nature and in the life of a family, and particularly about how important it is for children to live in the natural world. The arc of A Thousand Deer spans from Bass's boyhood in the suburbs of Houston, where he searched for anything rank or fecund in the little oxbow swamps and pockets of woods along Buffalo Bayou, to his commitment to providing his children in Montana the same opportunity—a life afield—that his parents gave him in Texas. Inevitably this brings him back to the Deer Pasture and the passing of seasons and generations he has experienced there. Bass lyrically describes his own passage from young manhood, when the urge to hunt was something primal, to mature adulthood and the waning of the urge to take an animal, his commitment to the hunt evolving into a commitment to family and to the last wild places.

A Road Running Southward

Author : Dan Chapman
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831956
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book A Road Running Southward written by Dan Chapman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging hybrid - part lyrical travelogue, part investigative journalism and part jeremiad, all shot through with droll humor." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, on a similar whim, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman, distressed by sprawl-driven environmental ills in a region he loves, recreated Muir’s journey to see for himself how nature has fared since Muir’s time. Channeling Muir, he uses humor, keen observation, and a deep love of place to celebrate the South’s natural riches. But he laments that a treasured way of life for generations of Southerners is endangered as long-simmering struggles intensify over misused and dwindling resources. Chapman seeks to discover how Southerners might balance surging population growth with protecting the natural beauty Muir found so special. Each chapter touches upon a local ecological problem—at-risk species in Mammoth Cave, coal ash in Kingston, Tennessee, climate change in the Nantahala National Forest, water wars in Georgia, aquifer depletion in Florida—that resonates across the South. Chapman delves into the region’s natural history, moving between John Muir’s vivid descriptions of a lush botanical paradise and the myriad environmental problems facing the South today. Along the way he talks to locals with deep ties to the land—scientists, hunters, politicians, and even a Muir impersonator—who describe the changes they’ve witnessed and what it will take to accommodate a fast-growing population without destroying the natural beauty and a cherished connection to nature. A Road Running Southward is part travelogue, part environmental cri de coeur, and paints a picture of a South under siege. It is a passionate appeal, a call to action to save one of the loveliest and most biodiverse regions of the world by understanding what we have to lose if we do nothing.

The Way West

Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr.)
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618154623
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book The Way West written by Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr.) and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs of pioneer life. With THE WAY WEST, he pays homage to the grandeur of the western wilderness, its stark and beautiful scenery, and its extraordinary people.

When I Lived in Modern Times

Author : Linda Grant
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101563397
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book When I Lived in Modern Times written by Linda Grant and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction In the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible. Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new, strange country, she joins a kibbutz, then moves on to the teeming metropolis of Tel Aviv, to find her own home and a group of friends as eccentric and disparate as the city itself. She falls in love with a man who is not what he seems when she becomes an unwitting spy for a nation fighting to be born. When I Lived in Modern Times is "an unsentimental coming-of-age story of both a country and a young immigrant . . . that provides an unforgettable glimpse of a time and place rarely observed" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

The Starfish from Africa

Author : Wiliam Lavin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792354786
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book The Starfish from Africa written by Wiliam Lavin and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Knowable Word

Author : Peter Krol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949253337
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Knowable Word written by Peter Krol and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowable Word offers a foundation on why and how to study the Bible. Through a running study Genesis 1, this new edition illustrates how to Observe, Interpret, and Apply the Scripture-and gives the vision behind each step.

Kagame

Author : François Soudan
Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 193627499X
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Kagame written by François Soudan and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Ben Affleck, Natalie Portman, the CEOs of Starbucks and Visa, Howard G. Buffett, Robert de Niro, Susan Rice, Don Cheadle, and many other celebrities are amongst his most fervent admirers. For them, Paul Kagame is the man who produced the Rwandan Miracle. The one who was able to make a people and a nation rise from the ashes of the last genocide of the twentieth century. But this former refugee, once a warlord by necessity, who then became the president of a country that he endeavors to lead down the path of economic emergence with an iron hand, also has fierce enemies who consider him to be a sort of African Machiavelli. His opponents, human rights organizations in particular, criticize him for favoring development over democracy. Saint or demon, virtuous liberator or dictator: rarely has a head of state been as controversial as he. Twenty years after the genocide of the Tutsis from Rwanda, causing one million deaths in one hundred days in the Land of a Thousand Hills, Paul Kagame candidly reveals himself for the very first time. François Soudan is the managing editor of Jeune Afrique, a leading news weekly based in Paris, and has authored biographies of Nelson Mandela and Muammar el-Qaddafi. Soudan has traveled to Rwanda on numerous occasions over the past twenty years. His interviews with Paul Kagame took place in Kigali between December 2013 and March 2014.

Gorillas in the Mist

Author : Dian Fossey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618083602
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Gorillas in the Mist written by Dian Fossey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1983 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents thirteen years of field research on the endangered mountain gorilla of the African rain forest.

Under the Arctic Sun

Author : Frances Ann Degnan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Under the Arctic Sun written by Frances Ann Degnan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

High Lonesome

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553899228
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book High Lonesome written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon . . . and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her stubborn father, hell-bent on traveling alone through Apache territory to a new life. Suddenly Considine must choose between revenge and redemption—and either choice could be the last one he makes.