The Hour of Land

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Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374712263
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hour of Land by : Terry Tempest Williams

Download or read book The Hour of Land written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.

Land of Tempest

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Publisher : [London] : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Land of Tempest by : Eric Shipton

Download or read book Land of Tempest written by Eric Shipton and published by [London] : Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1963 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Land of Tempest

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Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910240311
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Land of Tempest by : Eric Shipton

Download or read book Land of Tempest written by Eric Shipton and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land of Tempest reveals Eric Shipton at his best - writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. He is an astute observer of nature and the human spirit, and this account of his travels is infused with with his own zest for discovery and the joy of camaraderie. Undaunted by hardship or by injury, Shipton and his team attempt to cross one of the great ice caps in Patagonia. It's impossible not to marvel at his determination, resilience and appetite for travel and adventure, be it climbing snow-clad mountains, or walking in forested foothills. Shipton takes a reader with him on his travels, and the often-inhospitable places he visits are a stark contrast to the warmth of the people he encounters. Land of Tempest is essential reading for anyone who loves nature, mountains, climbing, adventure or simply the joy of discovering unknown places.

Erosion

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Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374712298
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Erosion by : Terry Tempest Williams

Download or read book Erosion written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: "How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?" We know the elements of erosion: wind, water, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy, science, compassion, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monument—sacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which "oil rigs light up the horizon." And she testifies that the climate crisis is not an abstraction, offering as evidence the drought outside her door and, at times, within herself. These essays are Williams's call to action, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times. We will find new territory—emotional, geographical, communal. The erosion of desert lands exposes the truth of change. What has been weathered, worn, and whittled away is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. Erosion is a book for this moment, political and spiritual at once, written by one of our greatest naturalists, essayists, and defenders of the environment. She reminds us that beauty is its own form of resistance, and that water can crack stone.

Tempest Rising

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802722326
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Tempest Rising by : Tracy Deebs

Download or read book Tempest Rising written by Tracy Deebs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her-and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.

When Women Were Birds

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024110
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis When Women Were Birds by : Terry Tempest Williams

Download or read book When Women Were Birds written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 54 chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals in a book that keeps turning around the question, "What does it mean to have a voice?"

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375725199
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Finding Beauty in a Broken World by : Terry Tempest Williams

Download or read book Finding Beauty in a Broken World written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a memorial from the rubble of war, Williams searches for meaning and community in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. In her compassionate meditation on how nature and humans both collide and connect, Williams affirms a reverence for all life, and constructs a narrative of hopeful acts, taking that which is broken and creating something whole.

Tempest Unleashed

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802734669
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Tempest Unleashed by : Tracy Deebs

Download or read book Tempest Unleashed written by Tracy Deebs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half-human, half-mermaid Tempest must again choose between land and sea as two boys vie for her affection and the evil sea witch returns.

Land of Tempest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Land of Tempest by : Eric Earle Shipton

Download or read book Land of Tempest written by Eric Earle Shipton and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hag-Seed

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Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0804141304
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Hag-Seed by : Margaret Atwood

Download or read book Hag-Seed written by Margaret Atwood and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. “A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original’s back story falls neatly into place.”—The New York Times Book Review Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he’s staging aTempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge, which, after twelve years, arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. Praise for Hag-Seed “What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included. . . . Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”—Boston Globe “Atwood has designed an ingenious doubling of the plot of The Tempest: Felix, the usurped director, finds himself cast by circumstances as a real-life version of Prospero, the usurped Duke. If you know the play well, these echoes grow stronger when Felix decides to exact his revenge by conjuring up a new version of The Tempest designed to overwhelm his enemies.”—Washington Post “A funny and heartwarming tale of revenge and redemption . . . Hag-Seed is a remarkable contribution to the canon.”—Bustle

Pieces of White Shell

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Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826309693
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Pieces of White Shell written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller.

Land of Tempest

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Publisher : [London] : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Land of Tempest by : Eric Shipton

Download or read book Land of Tempest written by Eric Shipton and published by [London] : Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1963 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Day of the Tempest

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ISBN 13 : 9780786928576
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (285 download)

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Book Synopsis The Day of the Tempest by : Jean Rabe

Download or read book The Day of the Tempest written by Jean Rabe and published by . This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the evil dragon overlords lay waste to once fertile lands, temperate islands, and cool forests, and Dark Knights, draconians, and other foul creatures flock to join the armies of darkness, a small band of heroes struggles to protect all humankind from slavery and cruel death. Reprint.

Tempest

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429990597
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Tempest by : Julie Cross

Download or read book Tempest written by Julie Cross and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy... he's in college, has a girlfriend... and he can travel back through time. But it's not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there's no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it's just harmless fun. That is... until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he's stuck in 2007 and can't get back to the future. Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities. But it's not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these "Enemies of Time" will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit... or kill him. Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he's willing to go to save Holly... and possibly the entire world.

A Different Mirror for Young People

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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609804171
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis A Different Mirror for Young People by : Ronald Takaki

Download or read book A Different Mirror for Young People written by Ronald Takaki and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.

Brand New Ancients

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632862085
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Book Synopsis Brand New Ancients by : Kae Tempest

Download or read book Brand New Ancients written by Kae Tempest and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this dazzling modern myth in verse, Kae Tempest became the youngest winner of the prestigious Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Yes, the gods are on the park bench, the gods are on the bus, / The gods are all here, the gods are in us. / The gods are timeless, fearless, fighting to be bold, / conviction is a heavy hand to hold, / grip it, winged sandals tearing up the pavement -- / you, me, everyone: Brand New Ancients. Kae Tempest's words in Brand New Ancients are written to be read aloud; the book combines poem, rap, and humanist sermon, by turns tender and fierce. Set in Southeast London, Brand New Ancients finds the mythic in the mundane. It is the story of two half-brothers, Thomas and Clive, unknown to each other -- Thomas the result of an affair between his mother and Clive's father. Tempest, with wide-ranging empathy, takes us inside the passionless marriage of Jane and Kevin -- the man who suspects Thomas is not his son, but loves him just the same -- and the neighboring home of Mary and Brian, where betrayal has not been so placidly accepted. The sons of these two households -- quiet, creative Thomas and angry, destructive Clive -- will cross paths in adolescence, their fates converging with mortal fury. These characters' loves, their infidelities, their disappointments and their small comforts -- these, Tempest argues, are timeless. Our lives and our choices are no less important than those of history and myth. Awarded the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, Brand New Ancients insists on our importance as individuals -- and asserts Kae Tempest's importance as a talent impossible to ignore.

Wrenched from the Land

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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826361528
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Wrenched from the Land written by M. L. Lincoln and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness.